Intergreatme offers a FICA solution for law firms
At the recent ITU World 2018 I cornered one of the founders of Intergreatme and asked him to share his story on why they started this much needed business and to explain how the system fundamentally worked and the benefits to law firms.
Instantly compare legislation at a specific ‘Point in Time’
Viewing specific changes to legislation and keeping up to date with all the latest amendments can be a time-consuming and tedious process for legal practitioners, particularly when it involves following a multitude of hypertext links to search for historical versions of Principal Acts.
Sheriff Service Areas for South Africa
It took the founding members of Domicilium Trace 4 years, on a full-time basis, to compile a complete digital spatial database (digital map) of sheriff service areas for the whole of South Africa. Apart from the boundary data, the database includes a continuously updated component of so-called attribute data, consisting of sheriff names, contact details, addresses, etc.
African organisations processing EU personal data should have GDPR compliance procedures in place
Organisations in Africa that are processing the personal information of data subjects from within the European Union (EU) should already have effective General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance procedures in place, including Data Breach Security Checklists, impact assessments and subject data requests procedures.
Lawyer humour
A lawyer wakes up from surgery, and asks: "Nurse, why are all the blinds drawn?"
Daan's Snippets September 2018/19
Business - Coca-Cola is reportedly in talks with a Canadian marijuana producer to develop health-focused beverages that will ease inflammation, pain and cramping… Surely someone should be doing field tests in Margate?
Daan's Snippets September 2018/18
Economics - A recent article about the Tanzanian president, urging women to throw away their contraceptives, because the country needs more people, dealt with the negative effects of population growth. At the back of my mind I could not help but wonder whether that president was not angling for so-called demographically driven economic growth: this is a seemingly self-sustaining method of achieving overall economic growth, albeit most probably at the expense of individual wealth. Looks good on paper though.
Has your firm been hit by ransomware (yet)?
A recent study claims that one in two South African law firms have had at least one ransomware attack in the past two years. And if you have had a ransomware attack, you will know just how much it cost you to recover from it. But how do you protect your systems from ransomware?
