So let's stay tuned to see what she has to say about building a disaster plan for your firm.

Despite the disaster du jour, whatever it is, could be a plumbing problem, it could be a hacking thing, or it could be something as bad as Katrina, your ethical obligations as a lawyer are not suspended.

In other words, the code of professional responsibility doesn't care what's going on in the background.

You have to take care of your clients.

So the whole idea about having a disaster plan is making sure that you've got your family safe, you've got your passwords intact, you can get things going so that you can attend to your professional obligation.

Now, I'm not saying every jurisdiction is going to react like Louisiana did, but most do.

Like when something big happens, courts will issue in globo orders that might suspend the statute of limitations or say something that sort of helps the legal profession at large if it's a large regional thing.

So I think that makes perfect sense.