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Cybersecurity

02/16/2026 13 min read

If America’s Cyber Chief Can’t Protect Data from ChatGPT, What Chance Do You Have?

documents to public ChatGPT. If he can’t maintain AI data discipline,

AI Attorney-Client Privilege Breach Disclosure Cybersecurity Data Privacy Ransomware
02/16/2026 27 min read

If Your Firm Uses Claude, Your Government Contracts Are Now at Risk

On the afternoon of February 27, 2026, Undersecretary of Defense Emil Michael was on the phone with Anthropic executives, offering a deal. At the same moment, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted on X that Anthropic had been designated a supply chain risk to national security.

AI Cybersecurity Law Firm Security Supply Chain
02/13/2026 13 min read

AI Won’t Take Your Job. The Attorney Who Uses It Better Will. Part 2 of 2: The Ten Traps

The text message read: *”I don’t see these cases anywhere. I think

AI Breach Disclosure Cybersecurity Data Privacy Legal Ethics
01/29/2026 13 min read

The Email Disclaimer Delusion: Why Your Signature Block Won’t Save Your Privilege

In June 2014, a senior litigation counsel at Unilever sent an educational email to 46 managers in her organization. Buried inside the email’s confidentiality disclaimer, she hid a message: respond with a specific phrase in the subject line, and you win a prize.

Attorney-Client Privilege Corporate Governance Cybersecurity Data Privacy Email Security Legal Ethics
01/28/2026 12 min read

Your Phone Calls Are Being Recorded: The Privilege Risk No One Is Discussing

In November 2019, a family law attorney in Columbus, Ohio, learned that her client had recorded every phone conversation for the previous fourteen months. Not some calls. Every call. Strategy sessions before depositions. Candid assessments of the judge.

AI Attorney-Client Privilege Billing Reform Breach Disclosure Cybersecurity Data Privacy Legal Ethics
01/28/2026 13 min read

The Email Privacy Illusion: Part 3 of 3 — What Healthcare Figured Out That Law Hasn’t

In March 2018, a family law attorney in Columbus, Ohio, discovered that her client’s estranged husband had been reading every email she sent for eleven months.

Attorney-Client Privilege Breach Disclosure Cybersecurity Data Privacy Email Security Law Firm Security Legal Ethics
01/27/2026 14 min read

The Email Privacy Illusion: Part 2 of 3 — You Encrypted Everything. It Doesn’t Matter.

In 2014, three weeks into a wrongful termination production at EMC/Kazeon, a paralegal flagged an anomaly in the plaintiff’s email collection. The plaintiff’s attorney had used a properly configured Microsoft Exchange server with Transport Layer Security encryption.

Attorney-Client Privilege Corporate Governance Cybersecurity Data Privacy eDiscovery Email Security Legal Ethics
01/26/2026 13 min read

The Email Privacy Illusion: Part 1 of 3 — Your Free Email Account Is Reading Everything You Send

In September 2016, a paralegal on our Kazeon eDiscovery team at EMC finished imaging the email account of a solo practitioner in Northern California. The collection order covered four years of client communications.

Attorney-Client Privilege Breach Disclosure Cybersecurity Data Privacy eDiscovery Email Security Legal Ethics
01/26/2026 14 min read

The Spy in Your Pocket: Why Attorneys Need an Air-Gapped Phone

masquerading as e-commerce.\” Here’s why attorneys need separate work

Attorney-Client Privilege Corporate Governance Cybersecurity Data Privacy Legal Ethics
01/24/2026 11 min read

Your Password Is the Weakest Link in Your Security Chain

On the morning of June 7, 2021, Katherine Weall opened her laptop to file an answer in Manhattan federal court. She had drafted the document. She knew the deadline.

Breach Disclosure Cybersecurity Data Privacy Email Security Law Firm Security Legal Ethics

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