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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 6, 2023

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Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.

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Petting other people’s dogs, even briefly, can boost your health–NPR

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Maria Godoy “Absolutely. I think it is safe to say that animals are beneficial to our mental and physical health,” says Nancy Gee, a professor of psychiatry and director of the Center for Human-Animal Interaction at Virginia Commonwealth University. Gee says evidence is accumulating that levels of the stress hormone cortisol drop in people after just 5 to 20 minutes spent interacting with dogs — even if it’s not their pet. “Also, we see increases in oxytocin , that feel-g

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Law Firm Financial Management: A Guide for the Busy Lawyer

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Are you a busy lawyer struggling to balance the demands of legal practice with the complexities of managing your law firm’s finances? If so, you’re not alone. Many legal professionals find themselves caught up in the daily grind of court appearances, client meetings, and case preparations. Leaving little time to focus on the critical aspect of running a successful law firm — financial management.

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Commingling Funds Definition & How Can Lawyers Prevent It

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Juggling funds without stumbling into commingling of funds can be a pain point for various lawyers and firms. Lawyers may do commingling of funds knowingly or unknowingly. Many lawyers struggle with trust accounting, especially in case of commingling of funds. Lawyers and firms hold clients’ funds and it is their duty to safeguard it. But various times they are not able to manage their client’s fund and get into the trap of commingling of funds.

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Visibility Into the Strategy & Supporting Documents of Major US Law Firms

Law Firm Intelligence by Trellis aggregates state trial court data across the Trellis platform enabling users to: look up a particular metric related to a specific law firm (such as, how many cases a law firm had or has against another law firm), and see the actual dockets and documents supporting the metric. Trellis data is maximized in a revolutionary and unique way to provide users an exclusive look into a law firm litigating in state trial courts.

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Apple 2023 fiscal third quarter -- the iPhone and iPad angle

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A few days ago, Apple released the results for its 2022 fiscal third quarter (which ran from April 2, 2023, to July 1, 2023) and held a call with analysts to discuss the results.  This is typically not a big fiscal quarter for Apple, but Apple had a very good one this time last year with record revenue of $83 billion. This year, the revenue for the quarter was $81.8 billion, down about 1% from last year, but that is still better than two years ago which was a record for the fiscal third qu

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LexisNexis Collaborates with Microsoft on Product Integrations and Generative AI Capabilities

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LexisNexis Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of information and analytics, announced the integration of AI-powered solutions with Microsoft 365. Both companies are also working on solutions integrating Microsoft Azure OpenAI, built on a long-standing relationship and experience working with AI and large language models, and previously announced plans for incorporating generative AI into its products.