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🎙️ Ep. #130: Taming Client Data Security – Nick Martin’s Proven Tech Strategies for Law Firms 🚀

Law Pros: Document Data Security Overload? Nick (FileScience) shares 3 workflows: memory unification, an undo button, & retention. Air-gap backups for Clio/NetDocs. M365 down? No problem!
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🎙️ Ep. #130: Taming Client Data Security – Nick Martin’s Proven Tech Strategies for Law Firms 🚀 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
My next guest is Nick Martin, CEO of FileScience. He shares expert insights on stabilizing law firm operations with smart backups and automation. Join us to discover practical, easy-to-implement ways…
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February 11, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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🚨TSL.P Labs 🧪: What are the ethics risks for lawyers when practice management platforms and AI research vendors sue each other, the “evidence” often includes the same cloud systems you rely on every day.

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TSL.P Labs 🧪: Legal Tech Wars, Client Data, and Your Law License: An AI-Powered Ethics Deep Dive ⚖️🤖 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
📌 To Busy to Read This Week’s Editorial? Join us for an AI-powered deep dive into the ethical challenges facing legal professionals in the age of generative AI. 🤖 In this Tech-Savvy Lawyer Page…
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February 9, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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🤔 Think your biggest challenge is finding smartphone and wearable evidence? After last month’s “Everyday Tech, Extraordinary Evidence,” the sequel is here—and it’s about courts punishing fake digital and AI‑generated data.⚖️📱

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MTC: Everyday Tech, Extraordinary Evidence—Again: How Courts Are Punishing Fake Digital and AI Data ⚖️📱 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
In last month’s editorial, “ Everyday Tech, Extraordinary Evidence ,” we walked through how smartphones, dash cams, and wearables turned the Minnesota ICE shooting into a case study in modern…
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February 9, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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Terrell A. Turner just featured Michael D.J. Eisenberg discussing practical law firm finance & technology strategies in the ABA Law Practice Podcast's "Best of 2025" special. 🎙️

Thanks, Terrell!!!

👉 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
SHOUT OUT: Your Tech-Savvy Lawyer Blogger and Podcaster was Highlighted in an ABA "Best of 2025" Podcast! — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
Shout Out to Terrell A. Turner , and the ABA Law Practice Division for featuring myself with Amy Wood and Matt Darner in their "Best of 2025" special episode, The Law Firm Finance Lessons…
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February 4, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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If your CRM vendor is litigating over data and AI, your practice is running on contested infrastructure. 👀 The Clio–Alexi clash isn’t just tech drama; it can shape access to client files, confidentiality, and your obligations under ABA Model Rules.

— The Tech Savvy Lawyer
MTC: Clio–Alexi Legal Tech Fight: What CRM Vendor Litigation Means for Your Law Firm, Client Data and ABA Model Rule Compliance ⚖️💻 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
When the companies behind your CRM and AI research tools start suing each other, the dispute is not just “tech industry drama” — it can reshape the practical and ethical foundations of your practice.…
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February 4, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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How Smartphones, Dash Cams, and Wearables Became Silent Witnesses in Modern Litigation ⚖️📱

In this new Tech‑Savvy Lawyer·Page Labs episode, we break down our recent editorial on the Minnesota ICE shooting of ICU nurse Alex Priddy and show how bystander tech can boost your case!

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TSL.P Labs Bonus: Google AI Discussion: Everyday Tech, Extraordinary Evidence: Smartphones, Dash Cams, and Wearables as Silent Witnesses in Your Cases ⚖️📱 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
This post walks you through practical workflows and ethical guardrails so you can turn ubiquitous technology into admissible, compelling evidence without putting your license at risk.
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February 4, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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Lawyers are being hit with realistic LinkedIn phishing scams using fake “account restricted” comments and convincing lnkd.in links.🛑 This guide explains how the scam works, concrete steps to secure your profile, and why it matters under ABA Model Rules 1.1 and 1.6.

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HOW TO: How Lawyers Can Protect Themselves on LinkedIn from New Phishing 🎣 Scams! — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
LinkedIn has become an essential networking tool for lawyers, making it a high‑value target for sophisticated phishing campaigns.⚖️ Recent scams use fake “policy violation” comments that mimic…
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January 29, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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🎙️⚖️ New release: The Lawyer’s Guide to Podcasting 📘
A practical, plain-language roadmap for launching a podcast. Covers gear, software, hosting/RSS, video, AI workflows, and legal ethics guardrails. ✅


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ANNOUNCEMENT: The Lawyer’s Guide to Podcasting Is Here: A Practical, Ethical Launch Plan for Busy Lawyers 🎙️⚖️ — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
I’m excited to share! The wait is over! The Lawyer’s Guide to Podcasting is officially released. 🎉🎙️ This book is built for lawyers, paralegals, and legal professionals who want a clear, practical...
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January 27, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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The Minnesota shooting of Alex Pretti shows how quickly public narratives can clash with what’s captured on everyday devices. 📹 Lawyers who understand smartphone video, GPS trails, dash‑cam footage, and smartwatch data can now challenge or confirm official accounts.

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MTC: Everyday Tech, Extraordinary Evidence: How Lawyers Can Turn Smartphones, Dash Cams, and Wearables Into Case‑Winning Proof After the Minnesota ICE Shooting 📱⚖️ — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
Learn how lawyers can turn everyday tech—smartphones, dash cams, GPS data, and wearables—into powerful, ethically sound evidence. Explore real‑world examples, ABA Model Rules guidance, and practical…
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January 26, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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Tokens aren’t just tech talk—they matter for lawyers ⚖️. This week’s AI Word of the Week breaks down what a token means in AI systems like ChatGPT & why it’s tied to ABA Model Rules for competence and confidentiality. Learn how tokens shape billing, privacy, and ethics in legal tech.
Word of the Week: What is a “Token” in AI parlance? — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
In artificial intelligence, a “token” is a small segment of text—such as a word, subword, or even punctuation—that AI tools like ChatGPT or other large language models (LLMs) use to understand and…
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January 22, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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Why Lawyers Who Podcast Will Win the AI Search Game 🎙️🤖

Clients, referral partners, & AI tools are all “listening” to your content now. In a live roundtable from Podfest 2026, I talk w legal podcasters & marketers about why podcasting helps lawyers stand out in a crowded internet.
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Helping Lawyers with their Technology Questions.
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January 21, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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Thinking about launching a lawyer podcast in 2026, but not sure where to start—or if it will really help your practice? 🎙️ This new editorial shares insights from Podfest 2026 with other podcasters-in-law!

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MTC: Why Lawyers Should Podcast in 2026: Human Connection, Authority Building, and Tech-Smart Growth for Your Law Practice 🎙️⚖️ — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
For nearly six years, podcasting has been more than a business development tool to me; it has been a way to talk about topics that matter, in a format that feels natural, conversational, and—even for…
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January 20, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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🎙️ NEW EPISODE: Building a Tech-Forward Law Firm with Colleen Joyce (Lawyer.com CEO)!
Colleen shares the 3 non-negotiable technologies every law firm needs, reveals which intake bottlenecks AI now solves better than humans, & explains the human touchpoints you should NEVER automate.💡⚖️
🎙️Ep. 128, Building a Tech-Forward Law Firm: AI Intake, CRM Strategy & Client Experience with Colleen Joyce! — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
My next guest is Colleen Joyce , CEO of Lawyer.com, a leading legal marketplace that connects over one million consumers monthly with qualified attorneys nationwide. With nearly two decades of…
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January 14, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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Lawyers: The PornHub breach proves sextortion is now a business model.

Third-party vendors = hidden risk. Your clients need guidance. Your firm needs protection. ABA Rules 1.1, 1.6, 5.1, 5.3, and Formal Opinion 483 create clear obligations. Read below.👇

👉 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
MTC: PornHub Breach: Cybersecurity Wake-Up Call for Lawyers — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
Essential Cybersecurity Lessons Law Firms Need to Protect Clients and Practice Under ABA Model Rules
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January 14, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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Anthropic vs. Agentic—a distinction that separates legal AI leaders from the rest. 🔹
Anthropic: the company building Claude AI. Agentic: the architecture that lets AI think, plan, and act independently.

Full breakdown in our Word of the Week. 📲"
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Words of the Week: “ANTHROPIC” VS. “AGENTIC”: UNDERSTANDING THE DISTINCTION IN LEGAL TECHNOLOGY 🔍 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
Anthropic vs. Agentic AI: Why Legal Professionals Must Understand This Critical Distinction
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January 13, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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🎙️📘 Reminder: The Lawyer’s Guide to Podcasting releases Jan 12, 2026.

Practical workflow, simple gear, ethics-aware habits.

📩 Email [email protected] with subject “Book Link” and I’ll send the purchase link on launch day. 🚀

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Helping Lawyers with their Technology Questions.
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January 5, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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Lawyers: Windows 10 is officially dead. 💀 If you're still running it, you're likely non-compliant.

I wrote a no-nonsense guide on prepping your tech for 2026.

✅ Why you need 32GB RAM now 💾
✅ The shift to "Closed" AI 🤖
✅ Stopping subscription fatigue 🛑

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“How To” Happy New Year 2026 Edition! 🎉 Future-Proof Your Firm: The Essential Guide to Law Firm Technology for 2026 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
The year 2025 was a wake-up call for the legal industry. We watched Artificial Intelligence move from a shiny toy to a serious business tool. We saw cybersecurity threats evolve faster than our…
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January 1, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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⚖️ VERIFICATION is The Tech-Savvy Lawyer's 2025 Word of the Year—and every attorney needs to understand why RIGHT NOW. 🚨

AI hallucinations. Hidden AI in everyday tools. Failed redactions exposing client data.

‼️ Your license depends on it. 💼

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📖 WORD OF THE WEEK YEAR🥳:  Verification: The 2025 Word of the Year for Legal Technology ⚖️💻 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
Verification: The Tech-Savvy Lawyer's 2025 Word of the Year Every Attorney Must Master
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January 1, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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New pod! 🎙️ Joshua Altman (Beltway•Media) joins me to break down legal storytelling and the tech stack you need to scale it. We talk AI automation (Gumloop/Abacus), avoiding crisis comms disasters, and the metrics that actually matter for law firms. ⚖️💻

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🎙️ Ep. #127: Mastering Legal Storytelling and AI Automation with Joshua Altman 🎙️⚖️ — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
Why Legal Storytelling Matters: AI Tools, Crisis Comms, and ROI with Joshua Altman
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December 31, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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New book Mid-Jan. 2026 🎙️📘 The Lawyer’s Guide to Podcasting — simple gear, clean workflow, ethics-aware approach.

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ANNOUNCEMENT (BOOK RELEASE): The Lawyer’s Guide to Podcasting: The Simple, Ethics-Aware Playbook to Launch a Professional Podcast (Release mid-January, 2026) — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
🎙️📘 Podcasting is still one of the fastest ways to build trust. It works for lawyers, legal professionals, and any expert who needs to explain complex topics in plain language. On January 12,…
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December 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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MTC: The 2025 Legal Tech Year in Review is up! 📝 From the DOJ's "Black Box" redaction disaster to the "AI Squeeze" making laptops 20% more expensive next month, we cover what you actually need to know.

Don't get caught with a failed redaction or a slow PC in 2026. Read more👇
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MTC: 2025 Year in Review: The "AI Squeeze," Redaction Disasters, and the Return of Hardware! — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
The Tech-Savvy Lawyer 2025 Year in Review: Surviving the "AI Squeeze," Redaction Fails, and What 2026 Holds for Your Firm
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December 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Watch: Redaction is more than a black box. ⬛👀📹

The DOJ's failure to properly redact the Epstein files proved one thing: hiding text isn't the same as destroying it. Watch our video breakdown 👇

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Redaction Fails & Ethical Tales: What the Epstein Files Teach Us About Data Security — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
Join us in this Google Notebook LLM-powered discussion on last week’s How To: Redact PDF Documents Properly and Recover Data from Failed Redactions: A Guide for Lawyers After the DOJ Epstein Files…
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December 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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❗️The DOJ messed up the Epstein file redactions. Big time❗️
🚫 If you can copy-paste the text from under the black box, it’s not redacted. I wrote a simple guide on how to actually scrub data from PDFs and what your ethical duties are if you find a mistake. Don't be that lawyer. ⚖️
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How To: Redact PDF Documents Properly and Recover Data from Failed Redactions: A Guide for Lawyers After the DOJ Epstein Files Release “Leak” — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
The legal world is buzzing this week. The Department of Justice released the Jeffrey Epstein files on December 23, 2025. The New York Times reported on the disaster in their article, …
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December 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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🎄 🚨BOLO: Christmas Eve panic shopping? 🎁🛑 Pause.
Scammers are targeting lawyers and staff looking for last-minute gifts or office supplies. The "Out of Stock" refund scam is active right now.
If you get a link "claim your refund," do not click it. Legitimate refunds are automatic.
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🚨BOLO: Last-Minute Procurement Scams Targeting Firms on Christmas Eve🎄 — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
It is Christmas Eve! The pressure to secure last-minute client gifts, finalize year-end office supply orders, or purchase personal items is at its peak. Scammers anticipate this desperation. They are…
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December 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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New TSL Labs Deep Dive! 🧪 We’re breaking down the massive liability gap between "Open" AI (public LLMs) & "Closed" AI (secure legal tools). 🚨

If you think a prompt box is just a prompt box, you might be accidentally training public models w client secrets.

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MTC: The 2026 Hardware Hike: Why Law Firms Must Budget for the "AI Squeeze" Now! — The Tech Savvy Lawyer
A perfect storm is brewing in the hardware market. It will hit law firm budgets harder than expected in 2026. Reports from December 2025 confirm that major manufacturers like Dell, Lenovo, and HP are…
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December 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM