Videos

In this video, Using Legal Research Strategically to Differentiate Your Firm, we will discuss how to approach your legal research to save time and money.

Do you know the most valuable actions to improve your law firm? Most law firms are looking to the new year and making plans for how they can improve for 2018. In doing so, these firms look at the newest trends for driving business, all the while ignoring a powerful source of growth within their own files. Firms that focus ...

As enterprises face increasingly dynamic risks to their business—including attacks that can entail physical, technological, and especially operational impacts—a common question posed by many organizations is, “How do I know whether I have an effective security program in place?” In this video, you will discover the changing nature of enterprise security risks, SAFETY Act implications and how a proven risk ...

In 2012, the ABA formally approved a change to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to make it clear that lawyers have a duty to be competent not only in the law and its practice, but also in technology. Since then, 28 states have adopted the duty of technology competence. But what does this mean in practice – what does ...

According to a recent Altman Weil report, 94% of legal professionals surveyed felt that improved practice efficiency would be a permanent trend moving forward. How are legal teams looking to create greater efficiencies? Well, a tremendous amount of traction in the legal community has begun to center around becoming more efficient via legal project management. Legal Project Management is simply ...

It seems like whenever you talk to a lawyer who works in a small law firm, they view their firm’s bookkeeping and accounting as a perennial headache. Although the process can be challenging, this doesn’t have to be the case. In this video, you’ll discover how a few simple steps and the implementation of some modern best-practices can be an ...

Like the rest of the population, lawyers can find themselves spending considerable amounts of time online and on social media platforms. Additionally, like all of us, they can make serious mistakes on these platforms, including malpractice, ethical breaches subject to discipline, breach of fiduciary duty, and monetary damages. In this video, attorney Claude Ducloux, director of education, ethics, and compliance ...

The end of the year can be a hectic time for many business owners. Sorting through the entire year’s financials, preparing the documents you’ll need to file your tax returns, there are a lot of accounting tasks that need to be completed before you can take some time off to enjoy the holidays with your family. While it’s important to ...

Incomplete information or misunderstandings of the current compliance requirements of HIPAA, Hitech and even PCI Compliant payment processing can negatively affect your firm. In Compliance Pitfalls: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You, Tomas Suros of Abacus will teach you how to meet the challenges that arise in modern environments where remote access, remote workforces, BYOD requests, and electronic client ...

Handling client funds can be one of the most complex parts of running a law practice. The rules and regulations of handling client funds can become very difficult based on the specific type of account, your local jurisdiction, and other factors. As an attorney, you are the one responsible for the proper management of these funds. If you want to ...