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You work hard to make your money, especially in tough times when business can be hard to come by.  The last thing you want is for a partner or employee to steal money from the cookie jar while you're concentrating on representing your clients.

Unfortunately, if you're a small firm or solo attorney, it's much more likely to happen to you than it is to a large or mid-size firm.
Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009
Time: 1:00 PM (EDT)/10:00 AM (PDT)

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The US government has launched an historic economic stabilization program as the market meltdown triggers massive litigation and other legal disputes. How do partners and heads of eDiscovery and Practice Support cut processing time and costs as the complexity of litigation increases? What new choices are available to streamline eDiscovery processes? How can information anywhere in the enterprise be governed to protect the ongoing interests of the business and reduce risk?
A study by the Ponemon Institute in partnership with Intel comes to some interesting conclusions about the cost, on average, to companies of a lost or stolen laptop.

The study determines that the average cost of a missing laptop is $49,246.  That figure only includes about $1600 for the actual replacement cost of the computer itself.  The major cost to the company comes from the likelihood of a data breach.  The report estimates that the average cost of a data breach is $39,297, or 80% of the total cost of the laptop.

Is Your Office Ready for the Next Swine Flu?

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So it looks like the swine flu is on the wane.  So far, swine flu hasn't turned out to be as virulent as people feared, and the precautions people took in response to early reports of the disease's spread have helped to prevent the outbreak from turning into a pandemic.

But experts urge that there is still a chance that the organism could evolve into a more virulent strain.  The Southern Hemisphere is just beginning its flu season, and epidemiologists are eying the spread of the disease there with great concern.

Tough Times Force Firms to Reconfigure Offices

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You know that things have gotten bad when firms are considering shrinking the size of their partners' offices.

The National Law Journal has an article describing how some firms are cutting costs by changing their office configurations.  As part of this push, many firms are putting partners and associates in identical offices, removing one of the most obvious signs of rank within the firm.