The Deadline is Approaching – Are You Ready?
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Regardless of your feelings about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a/k/a Obamacare, its provisions are slowly but surely being implemented and there is an approaching deadline that law firms need…
Read MoreStatewide Pro Bono Week Activities Include A “Poverty Simulation” For Lawyers To Experience Firsthand What It Is Like To Be Poor
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Montgomery, Ala., September 13, 2013 – This year’s Alabama State Bar Pro Bono Week activities, held in conjunction with the nationwide observance October 20-26, will focus on what it is like to…
Read MoreFree Email Accounts: Surefire Ethics Violation for Lawyers
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The last time I checked, 986 practicing lawyers in Alabama have an “@gmail.com” address registered with the bar and published in the bar’s online database as their office email address. Many more…
Read MoreDoes Your Firm Need Cybersecurity Insurance?
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As seems to be happening more and more frequently, my credit card company recently cancelled my current card and sent me one with a new number because the old one had been compromised in a data breach. Hackers had gained access to the computer system of one of the merchants I charged something with and, suddenly, my account number was out in the wild and available for sale to the highest bidder.
In this case, it’s just an annoyance; I’ll have to update my information with a couple of online vendors and memorize a new set of numbers, but at the rate I charge things that won’t take long. I’m not out anything and neither is the credit card company. The merchant, on the other hand, has, to put it politely, more than a little egg on its face. I’ll have to think twice before I buy anything there again.
This incident, the second one I’ve experienced in three years, points up how prevalent hacking into what are supposed to be secure computer networks has become. Law firms should not assume that they and the confidential information their networks house are not already targets, too. In some instances confidential legal information can be equally as valuable, to the right purchaser, as a large block of credit card numbers.
Although Alabama currently remains one of only 4 states which does not have a law requiring notification in the event of a loss or theft of personal information, there are lots of good reasons why lawyers in Alabama should tighten up security for their computer networks and consider obtaining cybersecurity insurance to protect themselves in the event that their computers are lost or stolen or their computer networks are breached.
State Bar Young Lawyers’ Section Elects Officers And Executive Committee; Montgomery Lawyer Heads Group
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Montgomery, Ala., September 4, 2013 – The Alabama State Bar Young Lawyers’ Section (YLS) elected new leadership for the 2013-14 year. Montgomery lawyer W. Christopher (Chris) Waller, Jr. was installed as president.
Read MoreFormal Ethics Opinion on BP Claims Issued
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Most of us would like to forget the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill, and all of the damage done to the Gulf of Mexico as a result. Unfortunately, the claims process…
Read MoreSTATE BAR LEADERSHIP FORUM RECEIVES NATIONAL AWARD FROM AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
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Montgomery, Alabama, July 30, 2013 –An elite committee of the American Bar Association (ABA), the Standing Committee on Professionalism, has selected the Alabama State Bar’s Leadership Forum as one of three recipients…
Read MoreBirmingham Lawyer Anthony A. Joseph Assumes Office As State Bar President
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Montgomery, Ala., July 19, 2013 – Anthony A. Joseph, a shareholder in the Birmingham law firm of Maynard Cooper & Gale PC, has been chosen president of the 17,300-member Alabama State Bar.
Read MoreHuntsville Attorney Richard J.R. Raleigh, Jr. Is State Bar President-Elect
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Montgomery, Ala., July 19, 2013 – Huntsville lawyer Richard J.R. Raleigh, Jr., managing shareholder of the law firm of Wilmer & Lee, P.A., has been nominated to become president-elect of the Alabama…
Read MoreLegal Expo Prize Winners Announced
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Feeling lucky? Check in on the Announcements page to see the names of the Legal Expo door prize winners. If you are one of the winners, please visit the booth of the…
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