The Legal Toolkit

On this edition of The Legal ToolKit, brought to you by Catuogno Court Reporting, host Jared Correia, Law Practice Management Advisor with Mass. LOMAP, welcomes Larry Port, Founding Partner and Chief Software Architect for Rocket Matter, to take a look at the use of software as a service (SaaS) in the legal field. Jared and Larry talk about what kind of SaaS applications are available for legal professionals, ethical considerations for attorneys using SaaS products and how SaaS companies can protect your sensitive data.

The protection of client data is fast becoming a matter of national concern. On this edition of The Legal ToolKit, brought to you by Catuogno Court Reporting, host Jared Correia, Law Practice Management Advisor with Mass. LOMAP welcomes Attorney James F. Brashear, General Counsel from Zix Corporation, to discuss how to protect your clients’ private information through email encryption. Jared and Jim explore HIPAA compliance, cloud computing and security and how to protect your business and your clients.

On this edition of the Legal ToolKit, brought to you by Catuogno Court Reporting, host Jared Correia, Law Practice Management Advisor with Mass. LOMAP welcomes Stephanie Kimbro, an attorney who operates the virtual law firm Kimbro Legal Services. Jared and Stephanie will look at virtual law practice, including the technology components, the benefits of such systems and the impact of the virtual practice of law upon the future of the legal profession.

In part one of this two-part series on IOLTA Accounting on the Legal ToolKit, , brought to you by Catuogno Court Reporting, host Jared Correia, Law Practice Management Advisor with Mass. LOMAP, explored IOLTA accounting and its purposes. In part two, Jared welcomes Beverly Michaelis, Practice Management Advisor with the Professional Liability Fund of the Oregon State Bar and Lindsay Vosburgh, Financial Investigator at the Massachusetts Office of Bar Counsel, to talk about the latest in trust accounting software and to offer tips on trust accounting software for lawyers and firms.

In this edition of the Legal ToolKit, host Jared Correia, Law Practice Management Advisor with Mass. LOMAP, welcomes Terrence D. Pricher, an assistant bar counsel in the Office of Bar Counsel and Attorney James S. Bolan, a partner with the firm of Brecher, Wyner, Simons, Fox & Bolan, LLP, to take an in-depth look at IOLTA Accounting. Jim and Terry bring very different perspectives to this discussion and will explore IOLTA accounting and its purpose, three-way reconciliation, the biggest IOLTA pitfalls and how to handle large sums of client funds.

In this special edition of the Legal ToolKit , we explore security compliance issues from The Massachusetts Information Security Summit (MassISS) with co-hosts, Jared Correia, Law Practice Management Advisor with Mass. LOMAP and Ray Catuogno, Founder & CEO of Catuogno Court Reporting and Sten-Tel Transcription . Special guests are Diane Lawton, General Counsel of the Commonwealth’s Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation (OCABR) and Chris Squier, renowned speaker on national security issues from New Technology Systems, to discuss security compliance issues, including the hacker mindset and the best methods for protecting information on PDAs and smartphones.

In this edition of the Legal ToolKit host Dean Whalen, General Counsel for Catuogno Court Reporting and Sten-Tel Transcription Services will call on the experts to talk more about the Massachusetts Data Breach Notification Law: 201CMR 17.00 and complying by March 1, 2010. In the first segment, Dean welcomes Charlie Christianson, President of Peritus Security Partners, LLC, to discuss the key elements of the compliance process and how to secure your business. Attorney Jared Corriea, advisor at The Law Office Management Assistance Program , will discuss the red flag rule, compliance and the upcoming Massachusetts Information Security Summit.

With several high profile security breaches in Massachusetts, securing customer information is a necessity to business legally. In this debut podcast of the Legal ToolKit, host Dean Whalen, General Counsel for Catuogno Court Reporting and Sten-Tel Transcription Services welcomes Attorney Rodney Dowell, Director of MassLOMAP and David M. Felper, senior partner with Bowditch & Dewey, LLP, to explore the details of Massachusetts' Data Breach Notification Law: Chapter 93H. They will discuss the protection of personal data, encryption, compliance and how new regulations will impact every Massachusetts businesses.