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Written by Vickie Adair
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 Technology will eventually change the way all businesses do business, even law firms. Lawyers today frequently use the term “virtual lawyer” to refer to lawyers meeting each other in cyberspace, accessing resources and information over the internet, and emailing clients from their vacation resort. I did a lot of research and found only one lawyer, other than Marc Krasney, who claims the title “virtual lawyer.” And, that lawyer claimed to have world’s only true “virtual lawyer” practice. Here’s how her “practice” works: she offers one year contracts at $1000 a month for 10 hours a month of online legal advice. Gee, she works from home over the internet giving advice, and she never has to see any clients.
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Written by Vickie Adair
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Companies that have switched to VoIP phone services have already seen savings in long distance charges in the hundreds, and for many, in the thousands of dollars per year. For companies that also make extensive conference calls, VoIP makes even more sense and can be combined with conferencing options such as document sharing. So why hasn’t every company gone with VoIP? I suspect most companies have not made the change because, first, they remember the nightmare expenses of putting in a new phone system from previous upgrade experiences, but that expense has been eliminated, just like long distance charges, with the installation of VoIP. Secondly, many people, like me before our company put in VoIP, simply don’t know enough about VoIP.
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Written by Steven Phillip Brown
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 With the globalization of integral business and corporation expansion, has come the increased focus on corporate compliance. Companies cannot do as they please; there are regulatory factors that balance ethics with rationality. For example, simply because a company can make a product cheaper by polluting the environment, does not give it the right to do so. Compliance simply means following the law. The law for corporations comes in many forms: federal laws, state laws, agency law, and industry standards. Breaking any of these regulations could have disastrous consequences for a company. According to Gentiva “The initial purpose of compliance was to act as a mitigating factor to reduce liability under the law. |
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Written by Vickie Adair
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 According to the 2006 Workplace E-Mail, Instant Messaging & Blog Survey from American Management Association (AMA) and The ePolicy Institute, e-mail mismanagement has resulted in costly lawsuits and employee terminations. In recent court cases, 24% of organizations have had employee e-mail subpoenaed, and 15% of companies have gone to court to battle lawsuits triggered by employee e-mail. So, should you try to delete all your company emails? |
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