April 12, 2005
Continuity depends on a reliable backup
As a law firm partner, your annual income is only half of the story. The other half is continuity of the law firm as a going business. If the business isn’t there, there is no annual income and a significant part of your investment portfolio is down the tubes.
Risk management is, therefore, essential for your livelihood and for the preservation of personal wealth. That is why you have professional liability insurance. And that is why you should have a disaster recovery plan.
But the weakest link in your continuity chain may be little pieces of plastic tape or disc of silicon. Partners go to bed every night betting their future on a backup process that is cumbersome and error prone and unrealizable. Forty-three percent of firms experiencing a business interruption never resume operations. I have seen it firsthand, over and over. It is a tragedy that does not have to happen.
Today’s best technology for backing up the law firm’s system is continuous on-line backup services provided over the Internet. Your data is always off-site in a secure location. It is always available from anywhere at any time. One of the major companies providing this service to law firms is LiveVault®. LiveVault’s services may be available through your business software vendor as it is for Juris users. If not available from your current vendor, you can contact LiveVault directly by going to www.livevault.com.
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