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Conta. Yes. I was starting remote and allowed to vpn in at three different firms. Security is based on walking off your access with a virtual client and tracking all activity. Not a big deal.
Yes small and big firms. Boutiques and Am50. It’s not a big deal. I got my laptop when I moved into my office a couple of weeks later.
Sounds about right.
Not normal. What are you using for a computer?
Please don’t use your own personal equipment. It’s up to the firm to provide the equipment, either a desktop set up or a designated laptop for remote use. If they are unable or unwilling to provide you with a laptop it’s a red flag
Red flag, if the company can’t afford to supply an adequate workstation timely, its financial viability, management, and organization are causes for concern
Your condescension doesn’t serve anyone but your ego. Good luck with that tho
I don’t think I got mine right away. I mean you do have a computer at work right? And then have your own laptop to access their network? Ie Citrix? Do I think it’s ridiculous, yes. Normal I don’t know.
Ha that’s crazy.
Btw everyone, I’m currently with boutique law firms. A boutique law firms are generous in terms of reimbursement and providing equipment based on my experience. My current firm even sent us monitors and landline with screen. The upcoming new job is a midsize law firm with 400+ attorneys. Just some background info.
Just depends on the firm. I have seen it go both ways. I worked for a boutique where they saved every penny. One where they had 20 inch monitors for associates and bigger monitors for partners. If I see stuff like that I would bolt.
Not getting a laptop when you start may just be IT trying to catch up. For example, in one of the big firms I was at with 800 attorneys, IT had to order the laptop, configure it and that took a week or more.
In another instance, the firm I was with had outsourced IT. That meant they would take a week to come out and setup the laptop even if one was purchased.
In another case a really big firm had the laptop sitting in the store room for three weeks. They were trying to replace my then working laptop. They just didn’t have the bandwidth.
If it’s bothering you just reach out and ask. Usually, it’s IT not yet caught up with whatever is happening. They may be in the middle of a large refresh cycle.
I would not be concerned. More importantly, good luck! Break a leg!
Red flag. You can’t use your own laptop because the kids (if you have any)/wife/husband/partner also use it. You don’t want to be responsible for confidential work information being seen by any means of the general public.
No
I also find it weird … not sure why.
Nope, I always had it prior to my start date.
I'd personally never perform work from my personal laptop. Hopefully you get one soon.
At my firm remote employees get their laptop on or before their start date
Some update: I heard that the firm used to not provide work laptop at all and only recently changed to providing it.
In a vpn login, client data is not on the local computer. So the device being used to access the session has no effect on the data security. Your vpn instance is on the form server with a firm up address walled off from the personal computer for all intends and purposes except for print and in some rare firms copy and paste to local computer (It’s usually not permitted.)
This is just how thin clients work. Firms have been using your personal mobile device for years to let you access email. It’s the same thing. The access is in a virtual computer, a walled garden.
This was the practice fifteen years ago in many firms. It’s really not insecure or a compliance risk nor are you responsible for a data breach.
To breach the vpn instance, the hacker has to compromise the server running the virtual instance of the computer. VPN clients and thin clients are extremely well encrypted. Used by thousands of people not just lawyers. It’s not fool proof, but pretty close. If there is a zero day it affects the entire world not just the law firm or the attorney.
There is really no liability shifting, unless they just put everything on a share drive and give you the keys. Rarely done.