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Last week, it was Securing your Mac Law Office at #MILOfest. This week, Clio CEO and co-founder Jack Newton will be presenting at the 2011 North Carolina Solo/Small Firm Conference on case management systems in your practice.

His presentation, How a Case Management System Can Help You Practice Ethically and Competently, will cover key elements of functionality typically provided by a case management system, and how a case management system can be used to help you reduce incidences of malpractice and ethical misconduct.

If you’re a NC-based Clio user or fan, be sure to drop by this event and hear about how you can use a practice management system to improve your practice. Jack would love to meet you as well, so be sure to say “hi!”

Clio co-founder and CEO Jack Newton will be presenting on “Securing Your Mac Law Office” at #MILOfest, the Macs in Law Offices conference, being held this week in Orlando, Florida.

Jack’s talk will cover all aspects of securing a Mac Law office, including:

• Using Mac OS X’s built-in encryption tools
• Leveraging TrueCrypt to keep your data in the cloud secure
• Securing Dropbox
• Using a password manager to securely manage your passwords
• Tracking and, if necessary, remotely wiping your iPhone, iPad and MacBook
• Securely communicating with clients

By the end of Jack’s talk you’ll be well-versed in the best security-related practices for a Mac-loving law firm.

Jack Newton, co-founder and president of Clio, is giving a webinar at the GPSolo 2011 Fall Meeting & National Solo and Small Firm Conference about the ethics and security of cloud computing.

Cloud computing is one of the hottest trends in legal technology. Rather than installing and running software on your local computer, your software and data is hosted by a third party and made available over the Internet. While this new approach to cloud computing offers many benefits, lawyers in particular need to be away of security-and privacy-related “best practices” prior to entrusting confidential client data to “the cloud.” The presentation will answer the following questions:

• What is cloud computing / Software-as-a-Service?
• What does cloud computing mean for lawyers?
• What are some of the benefits (and some of the disadvantages) of “the cloud”?
• What are the ethical implications of using Software-as-a-Service? Is it OK with my Bar?
• What questions about security and privacy should you be asking a prospective SaaS provider?
• How should you evaluate the costs of SaaS versus traditional desktop software?
• How can you protect yourself against worst-case scenarios?

Newton will also review the ethics issues relevant to cloud computing and provide a survey of recent ethics opinions related to cloud computing.

You can watch the security and ethics of cloud computing webinar (registration required). You can also watch all the sessions from room Lawrence A, for free.

We’re also exhibiting so if you can’t make it to the webinar, stop by the Expo Hall. We’re happy to answer any questions, or just say hello!

Jack Newton, co-founder and president of Clio, will be speaking tomorrow about the ethics and security of cloud computing at the 2011 Strategic Solutions for Solo & Small Firms Conference put on by the Minnesota CLE.

Security and ethics are hot technology topics this year, and cloud computing is no exception. While cloud computing has a number of benefits, like accessibility from any device with an Internet connection, lawyers in particular need to be aware of security – and privacy-related “best practices” prior to entrusting confidential client data to “the cloud.”

The presentation will answer the following questions:

• What is cloud computing / Software-as-a-Service?
• What does cloud computing mean for lawyers?
• What are some of the benefits (and some of the disadvantages) of “the cloud”?
• What are the ethical implications of using Software-as-a-Service? Is it OK with my Bar?
• What questions about security and privacy should you be asking a prospective SaaS provider?
• How should you evaluate the costs of SaaS versus traditional desktop software?
• How can you protect yourself against worst-case scenarios?

We’re also exhibiting so if you can’t make it to either presentation, stop by the Exhibit Hall. We’re happy to answer any questions, or just say hello!