Servicios Legales
Practicing in the Virtual Realm: A Framework for Delivering Legal Services Online
Nov 24th
Are you considering moving components of your services from the physical to the virtual realm? Then you’ll want to follow these minimum requirements to help ensure you comply with the rules of professional conduct.
A number of innovative law firms are seeking to deliver legal services directly to clients through their Web sites or to set up what some call “virtual law offices.” Unlike a simple law firm site, which may have just a description of the firm’s practice, the lawyers’ biographical information and some informational resources, a virtual firm’s site has a more ambitious purpose.
Google’s free service opens up US legal search market
Nov 18th
Google has entered the market for legal information with a free service that allows users to search a database of US laws and court rulings. The move could endanger long-established legal publishers such as Westlaw and LexisNexis.
The Google Scholar service has been extended so that users can choose to search ‘legal opinions and journals’ for information that they need.
Though court rulings and laws in the US are not protected by copyright they are usually only available for comprehensive searching in paid-for services to which universities and law firms subscribe.
FBI Says Hackers Targeting Law Firms
Nov 17th
Hackers are increasingly targeting law firms and public relations companies with a sophisticated e-mail scheme that breaks into their computer networks to steal sensitive data, often linked to large corporate clients doing business overseas.
The FBI has issued an advisory that warns companies of ”noticeable increases” in efforts to hack into the law firms’ computer systems — a trend that cyber experts say began as far back as two years ago but has grown dramatically.
In many cases, the intrusions are what cyber security experts describe as ‘’spear phishing,” attacks that come through personalized spam e-mails that can slip through common defenses and appear harmless because they have subject lines appropriate to a person’s business and appear to come from a trusted source.
