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Bad blogger – please accept this potpourri like sprinkling of items

The week feels like it is getting away from me, some travel, some work, some personal life, but may be able to write about something more substantive I’ve been meaning to tackle for later this week.  For today, here is a scattershot of stories all of which involve something previously found to be worthwhile enough […]

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Three short technology stories for a Tuesday

Throwback Thursday is definitely a thing all over the World Wide Web it seems, but maybe Tech Tuesday ought to be a thing?  Though, I guess, for lawyers focusing on technology has to be an every day affair. Like multitudes of others, I wrote a little bit recently about the Panama Papers and the Mossack […]

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Panama Papers – a worst case scenario for the development of cyber liability law for law firms?

It’s an old adage that bad facts make bad law. In the last few weeks, a good number of pieces were written focusing heightened attention on an issue that many lawyers were already stewing about . . . technological vulnerabilities arising from how lawyers and law firms use (and don’t use) technology.  Most of these […]

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Who are these people that ask these questions?

I like a well written, helpful ethics opinion as much as the next guy.  Probably more so, given the statistically low likelihood that anyone standing near me at a given time is also a male lawyer who commits a significant part of their practice to legal ethics and professional responsibility matters.  I think I’ve also […]

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Variations on two unfortunate, recurring situations.

Much has been written over the last few years about the risks for lawyers of increasingly sophisticated financial scams targeting them.  I’ve even written about the issue some in the past. Within the last 30 days or so, a “new” financial scam has gotten some publicity that should help real estate lawyers in particular to […]