CoreVault Receives Endorsement from Mississippi Bar Association.CoreVault Helps Mississippi Law Firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
OKLAHOMA CITY Oklahoma City (1990 pop. 444,719), state capital, and seat of Oklahoma co., central Okla., on the North Canadian River; inc. 1890. The state's largest city, it is an important livestock market, a wholesale, distribution, industrial, and financial center, and a farm -- CoreVault[TM] announced today that it has received an exclusive endorsement from the Mississippi Bar Association (MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration ), which represents over 7,500 attorneys and law firms throughout the state. "We are excited about this partnership because many of MBA's members understand the importance of data protection due to their experience with Katrina," says Jeff Cato, Vice President of Sales & Marketing for CoreVault. "The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. left us a painful reminder
of the need for lawyers and law firms to back-up their data
remotely," said Mississippi Bar Executive Director Larry Houchins.
"We had many lawyers on the Gulf Coast that lost all records
because their backup data was stored locally in the very same offices
that were destroyed by Katrina."
In recent years, escalation of natural disasters worldwide, increases in U.S. regulatory mandates like HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, and Sarbanes-Oxley, and the high cost of human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. continue to constrain small- to mid-sized employers. Many law firms, especially smaller ones, find it a challenge to get a weekly backup done, if any at all, and stored offsite on a regular basis. They understand the importance of their data, but don't currently have a good automated and secure way of protecting their clients' data. Despite this understanding, many companies still back up their data on tape or disk. The Gartner Group (company) Gartner Group - One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA. , a nationally-recognized research firm, says, "34 percent of companies fail to test their backups, and of those that do, 77 percent have found tape backup Using magnetic tape for storing duplicate copies of hard disk files. Users can add an internal or external tape drive to their desktop computers for backup purposes, and files are typically copied to the tapes using a backup utility that updates on a periodic schedule. failures." For these reasons, data backup and recovery has become critical to the success of law firms. "CoreVault[TM] assures MBA members that their important data will be backed up in a secure, reliable and cost-effective manner. CoreVault's online services also allow individual attorneys to back up their laptop data, which is a major area of vulnerability for many practicing lawyers today. Many of MBA's members are solo practitioners with no dedicated IT staff, and smaller law firms face more challenges with regular backup. Larger law firms will benefit from our tiered service Tiered services is business jargon for providing a service (such as telecom connectivity or cable channel service) according to separate, incrementally distinct quality and pay levels, or "tiers." The term has current usage in the debate over network neutrality. platforms designed to manage data and costs effectively on a long term basis. Gulf Coast businesses are particularly vulnerable due to their inevitable exposure to recurrent severe weather phenomena Severe weather phenomena are weather conditions that are hazardous to human life and property. Examples Include: Severe weather can occur under a variety of situations, but three characteristics are generally needed: a temperature or moisture boundary, moisture, and (in . CoreVault's bottom-line service offerings and affordable secure solutions can be individually tailored to a business' unique needs, and offer unsurpassed quality protection of their clients' data and firm's reputation in the event of data loss," said Cato. Mississippi Bar members can learn more about the MBA-CoreVault[TM] backup plan by visiting the CoreVault[TM] website at www.corevault.net/msbar. About CoreVault CoreVault[TM] provides data backup and recovery services that are automated and centrally managed to help businesses protect their data. Our solution helps companies with offsite protection, fast restores, regulatory compliance, increased security and world class customer service. In addition, CoreVault's two private data centers are geographically separated and possess redundant systems. For additional information, go to www.corevault.net. About Mississippi Bar The Mississippi Bar is unified bar association. All lawyers in Mississippi must be members of the Bar to practice law in Mississippi. The Bar was founded in 1906 and the Mississippi Legislature made membership mandatory in 1932. Today all of Mississippi's 6,700+ lawyers are members of the Bar. For additional information go to www.msbar.org. |
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