Practical notes on AI ethics, website compliance, intake automation, and legal operations for solo and small Florida law firms.
Website compliance
A law firm's domain name carries its website, its email, and its reputation. It is also often registered to the wrong person, on an unprotected account, with a renewal nobody is watching.
Microsoft 365
Many small firm Microsoft 365 tenants still run on settings chosen years ago. A short list of changes closes the gaps attackers use most.
Website compliance
Two unauthenticated remote-code-execution flaws in PHP were patched on October 21, 2026. Most law firm websites run WordPress, which is PHP. Here is what to ask your host today, in writing.
Intake automation
Prospective clients call and submit forms when the office is closed. Automation can acknowledge, collect, and route those inquiries, as long as the decisions stay with a person.
AI ethics
Opinion 24-1 addresses confidentiality, oversight, fees, and advertising when lawyers use generative AI. Each of those turns into concrete settings, policies, and habits inside a firm.
Security
Three DNS records decide whether criminals can send mail that looks like it came from your firm. Many small firms have at least one of them wrong.
Website compliance
Accessibility complaints target websites that fail basic, testable checks. A widget will not make those failures go away. A short remediation plan usually will.
Cybersecurity
The FBI and Google's threat intelligence team describe an extortion group that poses as your IT support, by phone and sometimes at your front desk, to steal client files. Here is what a small firm can put in place this week.
AI ethics
Florida's statewide citation-accuracy rule is a warning shot: AI-assisted drafting is acceptable only when lawyers keep verification discipline at the center of the filing process.
Legal operations
A reported back-office investment in a law firm is not just a BigLaw or deal-boutique story. It points to a wider truth: legal work is becoming a systems business.