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By Niki Black, MyCaseThe American Bar Association recently released its 2021 Profile of the Profession, which compiles data the ABA collected from several surveys, most of which were conducted in 2020-2021. The report includes valuable information relating to the legal profession, including lawyer d ... Read more

Kevin PayneKevin Payne is a document management system consultant at Affinity Consulting Group and has a background in technology startups and client-facing roles. He believes technology’s role is to improve and streamline our clients’ lives, and he strives to do so from his hometown of ... Read more

You’ve read about it in the news: companies falling victim to cyber attacks. It’s easy to think these threats won’t knock on your law firm’s door, and that’s exactly what hackers want you to believe. At The Missouri ... Read more

By Niki Black, MyCase Lawyers have an ethical obligation to preserve client confidentiality. For that reason, the need to protect client information has always been a top priority for lawyers. This means that when lawyers and their staff work remotely – a practice that has becom ... Read more

Jennifer M. RamovsJennifer M. Ramovs is the director of practice management at Affinity Consulting. At no cost, Missouri lawyers can email their practice management questions to an expert or schedule a one-on-one, remote consultation. Ramovs is available at jramovs@affinityconsulting.com. Whether a ... Read more

Kayla KempKayla Kemp is staff counsel at the Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel.1 Thankfully, there are an abundance of resources and technological solutions which can be utilized to facilitate practicing during a pandemic. As lawyers, we must be mindful to ensure that as we adapt, we must continu ... Read more

Melinda J. BentleyMelinda J. Bentley is Legal Ethics Counsel for the Advisory Committee of the Supreme Court of Missouri. How do you become competent in making those selections and using those technologies? What if there is a loss of a device or data? How do you train your staff? While the Rules of ... Read more

Robert D. Lang1 and Lenore E. Benessere2Nearly 100 years ago, when Judge Cardozo famously commented, “law never is, but is always about to be,”3 he could not have anticipated the concept of “virtual assistants” like Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Google’s Ass ... Read more

Cindy Neagle1We all experience password fatigue, that feeling when you receive yet another notification to create or change a password. The password must meet certain criteria, typically a minimum number of characters containing a combination of uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and/or symbols. Exasper ... Read more