With more than two years of a pandemic behind us, many law firms – and many other businesses, for that matter – had expected to be back to the office more fully by now. The latest variant of COVID-19 changed those plans. Now, law firms are facing the fact that they must be prepared to be flexible for the foreseeable future. Indeed, the latest geopolitical disruptions in Eastern Europe demonstrate just how deeply uncertain our world remains. In the face of myriad challenges, how can law firm administrators and IT professionals remain nimble? Let's briefly look at key aspects of accessibility, hardware, software, and data security that will help law firms maintain continual operation in the new reality.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) just published their recent survey of worldwide corporate leaders. When asked about technology objectives that have become a greater priority due to COVID-19, they elevated information security to the No. 1 position, with business continuity and resilience following right after. These days, that's practically all in the IT domain. 

Here is a list of the five main cybersecurity challenges that global leaders identified should be tackled (better) in 2021. Cybersecurity is a board-level issue now for many firms:

As it has for large swaths of the economy, the novel coronavirus pandemic offered many U.S.-based law firms their first opportunity to truly put their business continuity plans to the test. Whether firm leadership relied on established, written-down plans or winged it with ad hoc fixes as problems arose, the sudden issuance of various varieties of stay-at-home/shelter-in-place orders (and the still-ongoing reopenings) has driven home the need for planning to continue operations under a variety of less-than-ideal or expected conditions.

We invite individuals employed by U.S.-based law firms to reflect on your firm's response to the COVID-19 pandemic by completing our survey. Your responses, in addition to the results of your colleagues' feedback, will help you evaluate your firm's ability to deliver client services during crisis conditions.

As thousands of people begin using Zoom for videoconferencing from home for the first time under the coronavirus threat, we thought some guidance on ensuring your meetings are secure might come in handy.

Hackers are taking advantage of the confusion surrounding the novel coronavirus pandemic. 

Yesterday, the World Health Organization formally characterized COVID-19 as a pandemic. In light of this, there is an unprecedented move by employers to reduce the spread of the virus by turning to remote options for their employees.