Hype is hype and when you spend money you tend to get what you pay for. Legal Malpractice Insurance is no different. (And this isn't a sales pitch!) So here's a list of questions you should always ask when you're shopping around for insurance to protect your firm. Please note this is a free, non-CLE-accredited webinar.
ALPS Attorneys, Kobi, Chris and Mark will share what they believe to be the 10 habits any new lawyer should develop from day one based upon their collective experiences in the world of legal malpractice claims, risk management, and private practice. While practice management tips will play a major role in their discussion, time will also be spent focusing on various personal and professional relationships that can make all the difference.
Assessing your cybersecurity is more important in the work-from-home environment where vulnerabilities are far greater and hackers are focused on exploiting them. While the process may seem overwhelming, with a little bit of education, you will learn how you can further strengthen your firm’s security posture.
Notoriously, law firms are a one-stop shop for cybercriminals because, unlike most businesses, they hold the data of many companies and individuals. 27% of law firms now acknowledge that they have been breached. Ethics rules require that lawyers take “reasonable” steps to protect their confidential data. But what’s reasonable? Our legal cybersecurity experts will weigh in.
Attorneys continue to find themselves involved with “problem clients” for any number of reasons. This program asks the question why and shares practical advice as to how an attorney can avoid such clients in the future.
The legal profession, like other industries and professions, has not been able to eradicate sexual harassment and more can be done. This program will discuss a recent study of the issue in the legal profession, the effect on individuals and the profession, and propose some additional tools with which to tackle it, including “active ally actions” and the Rules of Professional Conduct.
Few law firms seem to fully appreciate the level of risk attorneys and staff truly represent. As a user of firm technology, any individual’s actions can unintentionally circumvent the security tools IT support has deployed. This program will try to address this problem by focusing on how to secure the users of technology by creating awareness of how social engineering attacks occur and coupling that with passing along knowledge of how the attacks themselves can be circumvented.
Every attorney would probably agree that learning about the law is very different from actually practicing the law. New practitioners have entered a profession where conflict is everywhere and they are trying to manage an assistant, clients, co-workers, opposing counsel, the court, and their personal lives. This program will touch on 10 things that help keep the plates spinning.
This program will identify and focus on the principal business decisions and ethical issues an attorney should address while going through the process of establishing a solo practice.