Monthly Archives: September 2011

California MCLE Deadline is Right Around the Corner!

Yes, it’s almost that time of the year again in California – MCLE season.  I have already noticed increasing numbers of California attorneys logging on to complete their CLE requirement online.  That’s because Group 3 California attorneys with the last name N-Z must complete their 25 hours of approved MCLE credits by February 1, 2011. We have also been very busy finalizing…

Google’s Evolution Revolution

Guest post by Eric Hunter As part of the next phase in our ongoing Google evolution revolution at Bradford & Barthel, I have it on good authority that Google is currently researching an inter dimensional time portal. This allows attorneys to work their product through the space time continuum enabling clients to receive product at a fraction of our current AFA’s, while also…

Moving A Law Firm To Google Apps

Guest post by Eric Hunter Why Google Apps? Why Not. I know, it sounds a little nuts, but Google is going to take over the world, our collective consciousness and all of us in it, so we might as well just jump on board! Seriously though, from a strategic investment perspective, there’s a lot to Google Apps and competing collaborative cloud hosted…

ABA Suggests Added Duties for Emailing Attorneys

ABA Formal Opinion 11-459 discusses the steps that lawyers must take to address the risk of third parties gaining access to email and text communications with a client.  The Formal Opinion –  entitled Duty to Protect the Confidentiality of E-mail Communications with One’s Client – seems to suggest that lawyers now have an added duty to warn clients of the confidentiality concerns…