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Fear of failure

14 May 2009 / Roman Marszalek
Issue: 7369 / Categories: Features , Legal services , Profession , Data protection
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Roman Marszalek explains why it's worth keeping technology on your side

In a working environment that has becoming increasingly high tech, competitive and credit crunched, the room for error is non-existent. What does this mean for lawyers relying on technology to do their jobs? How does this affect the processes put in place to protect vital information?

Franklin D Roosevelt's inaugural address during the depths of the depression is being re-quoted almost daily. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” he said. Motivating during our current economic misery, but I can't help thinking “that's a man without a machine to worry about.”

Technology runs through every aspect of daily life and when time is taken to manage it well it can make the impossible schedule, the enormous workload, the requisite research manageable. But when the pressure is on, it's often the last thing on anyone's mind. Promises to back up are forgotten, policies to avoid the use of flashdrives ignored, best practice to ban saving onto inaccessible laptops seems irrelevant. Some people never realise how valuable their data is

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