Our lawyers regularly come back after a mediation or settlement conference complaining about spending the day in opposing counsel’s office and being without an internet connection. Sometimes they spend an entire day without internet. The other attorney doesn’t provide wi-fi for us or for their clients.
How can this be? How can a professional fail to provide wi-fi in this day and age? It’s like failing to offer a glass of water or a bathroom. It’s unbelievable.
Who doesn’t have wi-fi? Coffee shops have it. Malls have it. Car repair shops have it. Nearly everywhere I go I find a free connection. You know they have internet for their own computers. What would it cost to add public wi-fi? Not much.
If you don’t have wi-fi for your guests then stop what you’re doing and get it set up.
Last week one of our lawyers came back talking about how the clients (both of them – ours and theirs) were making fun of the lawyer without wi-fi behind her back. Come on? Get a connection.
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Lee Rosen has practiced family law for more than twenty years. With three offices, 
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For me, this truly is one of the most annoying thing about going to someone else’s office. My staff is trained to book depos and mediations only where it’s available. It’s not difficult to set up a guest key for your office visitors.
Even worse, our local library has no wi-fi now. They’re worried about neighbors accessing their free wi-fi!
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Hi Lee.
We have Wi-Fi, but it is a secure connection to our network. Wouldn’t adding a second Wi-Fi transceiver compromise the security of our network?
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Not if you put it outside of your firewall. We run one for internal folks and one for guests. Easy to do and should take your IT guy like 5 minutes.
Good luck.
Lee
There are numerous simple ways to set up a wireless access for guests that can be both moderately secure for them and very secure for your office. Like Lee said it should not take but about 5 to 10 min for an IT person to setup.
You can even take additional steps in securing it so that visitors of your neighbors can’t use it and depending on the device you use, you can limit the amount of bandwitdh that is used by this connection. You know, for those visitors that want to stream music and media while waiting.
Cheers, JD (a technology guru)
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Not if you put it outside of your firewall. We run one for internal folks and one for guests. Easy to do and should take your IT guy like 5 minutes.
Good luck.
Lee