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Firms taking measures to ease clients’ cybersecurity concerns

You can protect client data from malicious hackers, right? Prove it. “We have a request a month from clients to demonstrate how secure we are,” said Lionel Cochey, director of information security governance and risk management for Bennett Jones LLP. Hackers can’t always crack the digital defences

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How Screen Shot Tools Help You Communicate

A picture is worth a thousand words, and pictures of your device’s screen are no exception. Those screen shot images can help people troubleshoot problems with your device — and help you better communicate how-to instructions as well. Sometimes you will see people taking pictures of their

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Productivity Tips for Busy Professionals

Last week, I joined a panel with two other professionals to talk about productivity with a number of freelance writers. The Professional Writers Association of Canada (pwac.ca) Toronto chapter (pwactoronto.org) hosted me, Dustin Meneses from cloud accounting provider Freshbooks and professional organizer Susannah Coneybeare. Have any questions about

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E-trials in Canada: Bringing the courtroom into the future

To prepare for Mishkeegogamang v. Canada et al. and Slate Falls v. Canada et al. (two actions merged into one), attorneys for two plaintiffs and three defendants would need seven copies of more than 4,000 documents. Yet instead of hundreds of bankers boxes crowding the courtroom, I

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Instant messaging: time waster or saver?

Tommy Richardson, a partner at the Phoenix, AZ-based personal injury litigation firm Friedl Richardson, stays connected with everybody else in the firm using Yahoo Messenger. “This way, we coordinate our responses to clients,” Richardson explains. “An associate can IM (instant message) me about how to answer client

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Supply chain management

Before you deliver products to your customers, you need to find the raw components that go into those products, then prepare them for delivery (and, unfortunately, be ready to take them back if there’s anything wrong with them.) That, in a nutshell, is supply chain management (SCM).

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Corporate counsel key to risk management

originally published in The Lawyers Weekly “It would be interesting to return to post-Enron days and read quotes saying how we need to clean things up,” mused Blake Redding, cofounder of legal consultancy VistaLaw International. “And here we are again, even worse. Asking whether certain businesses effectively

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Suite Relations: Neighbours plan events, swap info, and build relationships through Facebook communities

There’s an open invitation available on the web, courtesy of Jack Tsang, and it’s not just for people who live in Liberty Village’s Battery Park Condos. “I let anybody join the group,” he said. That group, founded by 32-year-old Tsang, a computer software consultant, has become a

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