Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. provides technology and strategic consulting services to law firms, corporate legal departments and financial services firms. We can help you analyze, plan, implement and manage business and technology solutions to optimize your organization's functionality and processes.
Security is always a concern in a law firm, and is especially important in the legal department of a corporation. Lawsuits sometimes include the company’s co-workers, competitors, or other sensitive information, where certain matter information needs to be completely hidden from all but a few matter assignees. Securing documents or DMS folders is often simply not enough protection.
Does the system hide the matter from appearing when doing a table look-up on a search form? Does it hide the matter when accessing the matter table via the DMS web module? For some cases, you want to hide the actual matter itself, so users won’t even know it exists.
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When you click “New Item” in any SharePoint list or “Upload” in any document library, SharePoint sends you to a standard form for creating the new item. Behind the scenes, SharePoint also passes in two parameters to let the form know where to post the item and where to go after the item is posted. By leveraging these two parameters in the URL, you can make a link anywhere that posts data to any list and sends you someplace else when finished. This has come in handy for us when creating intranet home pages, as we can create a list of links to post data to custom lists, which sends the person back to the home page afterwards. Otherwise, the person would end up in the root of the list or library they submitted the item to. So we were able to easily meet a requirement that the person be directed back to the home page after submitting the item.
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One of our primary concerns here in the Support Practice Group is to maintain our clients’ networks in tip top shape, and this means regularly applying patches and hotfixes. At the moment, we are leveraging WSUS to monitor and deploy patches to servers and workstations at many of our clients, which allows us to select which updates we want to approve and distribute to client machines in the background. We then can manually kick off the install and subsequent reboot once all the necessary updates have been downloaded to each client.
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