If you thought the picture above was of Barack Obama, look again. It is not President Obama. It is an impersonator. Impersonation is one of many ways that a social engineering fraudster (a social hacker) is using technology to defraud attorneys across the globe. Hackers used to be highly technically skilled people who were proficient […]
In case you haven’t noticed, across the United States, people are staring at their phone while walking through the streets in search of winged creatures. They are playing Pokémon Go and suffering everything from minor scrapes to catastrophic injury and death. Why are all these people playing Pokémon getting hurt? Are they stupid? Inattentive? Negligent? […]
What if your next email went viral? Can you protect attorney email from going public? Really public? If someone subpoenaed my attorney email account, they may find these statements peppered throughout my emails: “Since the statute has been amended, there is no basis for creating two entities.” “On your way home will you pick up […]
Mobile devices have been around awhile. Their capabilities have grown so steadily, however, that many lawyers can’t remember the exact moments when desktop computer slipped off our desks and into our pockets – into our smartphones, tablets and laptops. That might explain why so many lawyers have a mobile device but not a mobile device […]
Even after evidence indicates we are wrong, we find it hard to to change. Often it is because we are certain we are right. This risk of certainty is perhaps the most costly form of risk and the most manageable.1 Even after evidence surfaced that cigarettes contain toxic chemicals that kill, many intelligent, aware […]
At some point, you have to make a decision about whether you are going to be among the attorneys that delegate or not. If you started your practice in an established firm, you made the decision early. Someone was already in place to answer the phone, make copies and such. Someone else probably wrote the […]
Most addiction doesn’t start as addiction. It starts with doing something to feel better. Then to feel better again, you do something again. Then, doing something doesn’t make you feel better so you have to do more something. Before long, your whole day is full of doing something. The next thing you know, everything that […]
The temptation is to conclude that, “I could never be an embezzlement victim.” Join the club. That is what most (if not all) embezzlement victims thought. It is worth re-considering though – the stakes are just too high not to. The embezzler has too many tools in his or her bag-of-tricks to think you are […]
If you join a couple of attorney friends for lunch (a table for three), one of the three of you will suffer symptoms of attorney depression at some time during their legal career. Identifying which attorney at your table may be suffering from depression is challenging. Symptoms of depression are often the character traits of […]
The nagging question for me is the same as it was four years ago, “how could all of that happen and I didn’t see it?” If there was an invisible gorilla, how did I not see it? The complete answer is a moderately sized book. Here, however, is one method you can use to avoid […]