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Box.net is professional collaboration at its best

May 29, 2009

Box.net is an on-line, cloud-based, “one-stop” professional collaboration service. Similar to Lawyerist-favorite Dropbox, Box.net enables users to collaborate on projects from across the globe and access files from anywhere in the world.
While Dropbox is an excellent online backup and sharing medium, Box.net offers a service that specifically caters to professionals who collaborate online.

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How I use backup to keep my paperless office secure

January 29, 2009

Anyone who has heard me speak at a CLE or who reads this blog even occasionally knows that I preach the mantra of backup. This is especially important for lawyers, and doubly (triply? quadruply?) important for attorneys with paperless law offices. But I also practice what I preach, and I am willing to endure the [...]

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TrueCrypt 6.0 out and looking even better than ever

July 7, 2008

TrueCrypt 6.0 was released on the 4th, and includes some great new features, including the ability to encrypt and hide the entire operating system for Windows users. It is also optimized for multiple-core processors.
TrueCrypt 6.0 is available for Windows, Apple OSX, and Linux. Get it here.
For first-time encrypters, last year I posted a tutorial on [...]

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SoloSmallTV: Three (four, really) good reasons to go paperless

June 30, 2008

In the newest SoloSmallTV video, I describe four reasons to create a paperless law office:

Three (four, really) good reasons to go paperless from Sam Glover on Vimeo.

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FIRE DRILL! How secure are your files?

May 21, 2008

Imagine any of the following scenarios:

You returned to your office this morning to find it had burned to the ground overnight. You cannot salvage anything but a few crispy bits of your pencil sharpener.
Someone swiped your laptop on the train this morning while you were on your way to work. Nobody seems to have seen [...]

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Back up your computer only when you are not using it

April 3, 2008

A fair amount of the people I talk to about backup say they forget to do it, or they can’t figure out–or never get around to setting up–the built-in backup options. If that sounds like you, check out IdleBackup, a utility for backing up your computer when it is sitting idle.
I still recommend making a [...]

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Image hard drives for e-discovery or backup with PING

October 27, 2007

PING (Partimage is Not Ghost) is a Linux-based LiveCD for backing up your system by making an image of the hard drive (or smaller partitions, if you have them). In other words, you boot a simplified version of Linux (it doesn’t matter what operating system you normally use on the computer–just pop the CD in [...]

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E-discovery chain of custody

October 27, 2007

E-discovery has existed since computers have existed, but it has only become a hot (if dry) topic in recent years. For the solosmall practitioner, e-discovery can be an extra-large headache, since capturing and preserving electronic data in compliance with the rules and case law can be confusing, time-consuming, and, most importantly, expensive.
However, Law.com’s Legal Technology [...]

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