Accelerating your law firm’s response to cyber threats

“We’ve never been hit by a cyber attack, why do we need additional security measures?” It’s tempting to think that because your law firm hasn’t felt the full impact of a cyber attack, you’re not at risk, especially if you’ve already invested in security. But the threat landscape is changing, and there are many reasons […]

GDPR: Are the fines real?

  Under the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), organisations may be fined up to €20 million, or 4% of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is higher. In January 2019, the French Data Protection Authority fined Google €50 million for GDPR violations. When the European Union’s GDPR went into effect in […]

Best practices in contract management

Every organisation has contracts, but not every organization adequately manages its contracts. And while the nature and complexity of these agreements can vary widely, careful governance enables organizations to maximize their value and limit their exposure. On the other hand, contracts that are administered poorly—or not at all—tend to leak revenue, drive costs upward and […]

How confident are you in your firm’s redaction process?

No law firm in 2019 needs to be masking text instead of properly redacting it. The days of running a black marker over a hard copy and scanning it back in to create a new soft copy should be long gone. The modern equivalent – drawing a black box over content in Microsoft Word and converting to PDF – […]

Password security still taken too lightly

With so much publicity given to serious data breaches and the devastating effect a hacked password can have for individuals and businesses, the most recent report from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) makes for worrying reading. The NCSC takes the lead for the UK on cyber security and their damning report highlights the problems […]

NetDocuments introduces SetBuilder to simplify document organization for transactional closings and more

Acquisition of Chapman and Cutler LLP’s Closing Room for deal management and closing-bindergeneration now fully integrated within NetDocuments platform NetDocuments, the leading, secure cloud-based content services platform, today introduced SetBuilder, the fully-integrated NetDocuments application based on the acquisition of Chapman and Cutler’s Closing Room solution. NetDocuments SetBuilder provides users an easy way to combine and […]

Beyond paper: Automating the destruction of physical records

In recent years, a growing number of law firms have been moving to “paperless” or paper-light systems, with electronic records regarded as the “official” record of the organization. Certainly, law firms have come a long way in reducing their usage of paper and helping to save trees — striking a positive note this Arbor Day. […]

Does your redaction process pass the bar when it comes to efficiency and risk mitigation?

  Improper redaction is a leading source of data breaches globally. In many countries, lawyers have a legal obligation to redact all kinds of confidential information prior to filing court documents – including financial account details, names of minors, home addresses, and dates of birth. Googling the question, “how do I redact a document?” will […]

How an ISO 27001 certified law firm manages the risk of data breaches

  In 2016 ByrneWallace became the first large firm in Ireland to have ISO 27001 certification. Firms with ISO 27001 certification must have a totally comprehensive system of security measures that extend beyond just IT. Now, of course, the firm has to ensure it complies with the GDPR as well as. Part of ByrneWallace’s security […]

Top-tier Scottish firm Burness Paull chooses cleanDocs from DocsCorp for metadata leak protection

The premier firm relies on cleanDocs to prevent sensitive information in email attachments being accidentally leaked to the public. DocsCorp, a leading provider of enterprise productivity solutions, today announced that Burness Paull, a top-tier Scottish law firm, has chosen cleanDocs to minimize the risk of inadvertent data leaks. cleanDocs removes hidden and potentially damaging metadata from email attachments […]