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Lessons Learned About Business Continuity
Training Is Not Optional Just about everyone has read those dreaded words: “New Software Training Next Week.” They start a familiar chain of events that begins with partners scheming to avoid the whole exercise, continue with most of the firm never really learning the new packages well enough to take full advantage of them and end with partners complaining about expense and lost productivity. Everyone agrees on the benefits of updating technology, but the training necessary to learn how to make it live up to its potential often gets short shrift. more...Enter the Tablet So the tablet PC is here. What use are they, really? That is the question many IS managers and attorneys interested in such things are asking themselves as Microsoft and PC makers warm up their latest marketing juggernaut. more... Making Good Technology Management Decisions A good management decision is one that produces useful results. A well-executed technical result, say, migrating to Windows XP, may not be viewed by some as in itself useful or essential. That’s because usefulness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. In a law office, usefulness is ultimately judged by the clients who pay, the attorneys and staff who produce, and management who accounts for everything. more... Accessing Summation Remotely Summation helps litigators find needles of evidence in haystacks of data. It also helps organize those needles into effective legal arguments. Where litigators work as a team in multiple offices or from several different law firms, Summation is particularly useful if it can be accessed remotely. more... KKL in the News KKL client Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP was recognized last month at the third annual Legal IT Forum for its approach to IT, winning the Forum’s “Best Global Use of IT” award. Skadden CTO Harris Tilevitz and KKL’s Peter Lesser presented the firm’s IT approach at one of the Forum’s seminars. Online Compliance Training
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During the past year, attorneys
and law office administrators became acutely aware that business
continuity (“BC”) after a disaster depends on the survival or
rapid recovery of the firm’s information systems. Champions of
BC soon realized, however, that making the system “bulletproof”
is neither easy nor cheap. Those tasked with exploring options
often got bogged down in a morass of unsatisfactory solutions
which were considered to be too complicated and expensive to
implement.
Recent events in
corporate America have highlighted the need for a spotless
compliance record in spite of an often bewildering array of laws
and regulations. It is not surprising therefore that online
compliance training has become a growth area. One company
working in the area is WeComply, which has made a specialty of
law firms and corporate legal departments, giving them the
ability to insert their own content into programs. It teamed up
last year with ACCA and has worked with national firms to craft
online training programs in a number of areas, including
workplace discrimination/harassment and Codes of Conduct. The
company recently unveiled a new course devoted to compliance
with the new HIPAA privacy and security rules.
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