Lawyers, Professional Duties, Phishing and Malware, Technology Simone Herbert-Lowe Lawyers, Professional Duties, Phishing and Malware, Technology Simone Herbert-Lowe

Solicitors' duties in the digital era - is there a duty of technological competence?

Even without a formally recognised duty of technological competence, such a duty might be inferred by an Australian court having regard to reported levels of cybercrime, other professional duties and the official warnings by regulatory bodies.

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Cyber risk for lawyers: a unique form of professional risk

Cybercrime is challenging organisations everywhere, with daily news stories about businesses, government organisations and even global IT companies that have been hacked. Law societies and insurers have been warning lawyers about cyber risk, in particular…

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How cyber resilient is your law practice?

Our article by Simone featured in the Law Society Journal, December 2018. Click though to read the full article where Simone discusses the types of scams impacting legal practices, and how they actually work. She highlights possible dangers in outsourcing responsibility for cyber resilience to external IT consultants and, how do different insurance policies respond?

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