We get lots of calls JoAnn, I am sure you hear the same thing, all my clients want to text message me, what do I do about that? Well, you tell them no, but if that doesn’t work, then you are going to have to figure out some way to get control of that and make copies of it and store it and put it someplace not in your phone.Īnd then scanners became, in the intervening years, scanners became - they are everywhere, cheap, they are fast. I mean email has just exploded, everybody wants to communicate via email, hard to keep track of and now text messages. But as anyone knows who reads any newspapers or consumes media, the electronic data is much harder to protect and keep under wraps.Īnd the problem is like there is a lot of folks who didn’t really like this development, but very little can be done about it. It’s pretty easy to protect and secure analog data, put it in a filing cabinet and lock it and you are done and if you can get people not to gossip and engage in “shop talk” in public, then you have covered all the bases. What factors do you think are contributing to that?īarron Henley: Well, back in the day, when I was your age, everything was paper and now hardly any of it is. I have heard lawyers say that it used to be a lot easier to protect confidential client information. We automate and streamline law practices, private and public and in-house using - we fix processes and apply technology and try to help them build culture that will propel them forward and make them successful, that’s our job. I am one of the Founding Partners of Affinity Consulting. Tish Vincent: So Barron, would you share some information about yourself with our listeners?īarron Henley: Sure. Michigan has now become the 37th state to adopt the Ethical Duty of Technology Competence to be effective January 1 of 2020. If you haven’t heard Barron’s first episode with us, we encourage you to listen. We are returning to the topic of Tech Competency again with Barron Henley, who you heard in our previous episode. We are very pleased to have Barron Henley, attorney and legal technologist with Affinity Consulting, join us today as our podcast guest to talk about Tech Competency: Security Fundamentals. Tish Vincent: Hello and welcome to another edition of the State Bar of Michigan’s On Balance Podcast on Legal Talk Network. Intro: Welcome to State Bar of Michigan’s On Balance Podcast, where we talk about practice management and lawyer wellness for a thriving law practice with your hosts JoAnn Hathaway and Tish Vincent, here on Legal Talk Network. State Bar of Michigan: On Balance Podcast He outlines various security measures lawyers should employ in their practice (encryption, password managers, VPNs, and more) and advises them to be upfront about security with their clients.īarron Henley is an attorney and a legal technologist with Affinity Consulting Group. Following up on that conversation, Barron offers insights on lawyers’ ethical responsibilities for data security. Last time on the State Bar of Michigan’s On Balance podcast, Tish Vincent and JoAnn Hathaway talked with Barron Henley about new rules coming Janurelated to Michigan’s adoption of the ethical duty of technology competence.
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