Legal Professionals and Law Firms Have Unique Security Requirements

Attorneys have an ethical duty to utilize best commercial practices to protect the security of client information. In some cases, the law requires the use of encryption whenever private client information is transmitted over the Internet. For example, the U.S.Department of Housing and Urban Development requires a system called the "FHA Connection" to send loan applications over the Internet. Please see http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/connect/faqs_fha.cfm.

"[A] lender with 40 branch offices in 10 states and multiple Web sites, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated federal law by failing to provide reasonable security for sensitive customer data and falsely claiming that it encrypted data submitted online. Please see http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2005/09/superior.htm.

The Internet is not a secure medium, and is regularly monitored and "hacked" by criminal individuals and organizations who are looking for financial data or other information of potential value. The cost of utilizing best commercial practices to protect private information is low, but the cost of failing to do so can potentially be very high.

The safest method to transfer private information is to utilize strong encryption (i.e. 128 or 256 bits) on an end to end (or user to user) basis. If information leaving the PC on your desk is encrypted all the way to the recipient's PC on his or her desk, then you have utilized best commercial practices. This is true whether the recipient is in the office next door or on the other side of the world.

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Convert Your Paper to Text Searchable PDF Documents

You may have noticed that many courts, including the federal courts, have standardized on text searchable PDF documents. A text searchable PDF document provides a picture or image of the original document, complete with filed stamps, signatures, and other notations, plus an electronic copy of the text that can be searched from both within the file and outside the file. This allows for quick access to your documents, even when they may not have been filed in the best location on your computer or network.

When you receive paper documents, such documents can quickly be scanned and converted to text searchable PDF files with optical character recognition ("OCR"). You can also output the text to a word processing application such as Corel WordPerfect or Microsoft Word.

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Access Your Files Remotely and Securely

When you are out of the office and need access to your files, a secure remote access system will provide maximum flexibility and efficiency.

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Password Protected and Encrypted Remote Access for Your Clients

Password protected and encrypted secure client webpages and file transfer sites allow you to share and store client files with ease. They are encrypted and accessed via a username and password, and no other party will know of their existence. Please enter username=client and password=1Password for demonstration.

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Increase Your Client Base with Professional and Dignified Internet Advertising

Most professional people are now looking on the Internet for products and services first. Whether you are in a large law firm or a sole practitioner, your prospective clients may find another attorney if you do not make it easy for them to find you first.

An informative website that is easily found is perhaps the most important legal marketing tool today. Internet search engines will usually list your website for free, but you may be far from the critical first 3 to 5 search results. With a carefully designed website, and an advertising budget as little as a few dollars per day, you can often increase your visibility to that critical first 3 to 5 search results.

Most Internet advertising programs charge you only for each click through to your website, and you can review the actual results and make adjustments and improvements at any time. Since the first day of operation, one law firm client has received an average of six clicks (i.e. website viewings) per day on an advertising budget of a mere $5.00 per day.

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