Learn how technology is changing the practice of law.
Representative Michael J. Zalewski recently introduced a bill to the Illinois General Assembly that would allow for the payment of State taxes by cryptocurrency.
House Bill 5335 was introduced in February of 2018. The bill is currently assigned to the Revenue & Finance Committee.
While cutting edge technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence often dominate the legal tech discussion, these ground breaking technologies are not the only technologies an attorney can put to use in a law firm.
One area where technology and the practice of law intersect is the area of online training resources. Unfortunately, these resources are often overlooked by legal consulting firms and technology consulting firms.
Competent lawyers must strive to understand the potential benefits and risks of relevant technology. Increasingly, practicing attorneys are ethically required to understand technology to meet competency standards. This requirement is ongoing and evolves with technological advancements.
New technologies, like cloud based services, present lawyers with both opportunity and potential danger. Unlike some business people, attorneys owe unique duties to their clients, and are governed by a special set of professional rules of conduct. One important duty attorneys owe their clients is confidentiality.
Artificial intelligence is changing the way law firms operate. Recent breakthroughs in a type of artificial intelligence, called "narrow" or "weak" AI, make it possible for law firms to increase efficiency while lowering costs. Attorneys need to embrace artificial intelligence and incorporate AI based technology into their firm’s daily operations. Firms that refuse to learn about and integrate the benefits of artificial intelligence technology risk falling behind competitors who are already using this technology to augment company performance.
The Central Intelligence Agency might have allowed vulnerabilities and exploits to remain present in software and hardware devices designed by U.S. companies, according to documents leaked by Wikileaks, in its recent series titled, “Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed.” If true, any attorney using the compromised software or hardware devices should be aware of the possibility that confidential attorney-client information contained on a susceptible device might be vulnerable.
When increasing a small law firm’s web presence and Google visibility, a primary focus is to put the right content on the front page of Google. Curating the first page of Google’s search results is possible. The first step to curating the front page of Google’s search results is giving Google the right information about your business in Google My Business. A curated and informative first page of Google search results will encourage a potential client to choose the well presented firm over its competitors.
This is the first in a multipart series discussing how a law firm or local business might increase its web presence and visibility on Google. This series is intended to help small law firms and other small business owners understand how to increase business by leveraging the internet and realize that increasing a business’s web presence and visibility on Google is not as difficult as it might seem.
