Disaster Recovery Resources for Lawyers Affected by Recent Tornadoes

With western Massachusetts experiencing tornadoes and significant related damage last night, following those tornadoes hitting Joplin, Missouri and Tuscaloosa, Alabama, not even two weeks earlier, we feel that it is appropriate at this time to republish disaster recovery resources for lawyers and law firms, in the hope that these resources may be useful for those western Massachusetts attorneys affected by last evening's weather damage.

Here are the resources:

The American Bar Association provides substantial resources for disaster planning and recovery for law firms. (Scroll to the second heading on the page.)

The Law Office Management Assistance Program of the State Bar of Wisconsin offers some great resources through Practice Management Advisor Nerino Petro’s blog: see here, here, here and here. Wisconsin also provides a disaster resources page.

Dan Pinnington, Director of practicePRO at the Lawyers’ Professional Indemnity Company (LAWPRO) in Toronto offers much information for managing practice interruptions.

Laura Calloway, Director of the Practice Management Assistance Program at the Alabama State Bar points to Alabama’s P-MAP Disaster Recovery Kit.

Beverly Michaelis, Practice Management Advisor at the Professional Liability Fund of the Oregon State Bar checks in with a post-disaster checklist and an article respecting methods for protecting your firm from disaster.

The Oregon resources, as well as a more generic listing of resources, including some of the above-mentioned, but more, are available at this drop site.

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If you have been fortunate enough to have been left unaffected by the recent tornadoes, consider donating to those who have not been so lucky, via the Red Cross.