CALSPro - California Association of Legal Support Professionals

Let Your Voice Be Heard!

Posted July 30, 2012 in Conference, Education, Membership

JOIN CALSPro Today!

Help protect our profession and strengthen your business by joining CALSPro! With others, you can help provide a powerful and unifying voice for California’s Legal Support Professionals. Together, we can be heard!

BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP

Your CALSPro membership will enable you to:

• Participate in developing our statewide policy direction for the legal support profession
• Advocate for the protection of our profession and guard against legislation that could harm your business
• Learn best practices to keep your business healthy and your customers happy
• Attend a workshop and become a CALSPro Certified Process Server (CCPS)
• Build relationships with other legal support professionals, vendors, subject matter experts and individuals throughout the state
• Attend our Annual Conference this October 5th – 7th at Disneyland in Anaheim

Everyone is invited to join — Whether you’re a business owner, vendor, independent process server, professional photocopier, investigator, legal secretary, paralegal, attorney or work in another capacity in the legal profession, we would love for you to join CALSPro Today!

Larry Kirlin
Membership Chair

The Cloud

Posted July 6, 2012 in Membership, Technology

What is cloud computing? Most often when hearing this phrase people come up with a variety of different ideas about its true meaning due to its complex nature. “The cloud” is used as a metaphor when referring to the Internet. An expansive interpretation of cloud computing is the belief that anything outside of a firewall is considered to be a part of “the cloud”. On the other hand vendors and analysts characterize cloud computing as virtual servers which are accessible on the Internet.

An easy way to understand the term cloud computing is to get to the root what an IT’s needs are. These include licenses for new software, training for personnel, boosting capacity, and additional capabilities all of which are needed without creating a new infrastructure. Anything that can be paid per usage or uses a subscription on the Internet is under the umbrella term we call cloud computing. There are a variety of forms being used today. These different types of cloud computing are as listed: Software as a Service (SaaS), platform as a service, managed service providers (MSP), utility computing, Internet integration, and service commerce platforms.

Cloud computing is beneficial to the Attorney Service industry because many helpful applications have been created by using “the cloud”. Software companies are building their applications to harness the cloud’s efficiency and Process Serving companies would be wise to take notes. Data Integration, .asp or (.Asp .NET) websites, connecting multiple branches; all of these things work better and work faster in a cloud.  Investing in cloud technology makes sense.  Who wouldn’t want to take advantage of improved uptime, quicker access to data, safer server environment, built in redundancy, and application portability?

Dennis Chaples
www.TristarSoftware.com