careful,
1. Yes:
"The organisation was slow to adopt digital technology for ministry. Its attitude towards the Internet was initially cautious, with the need for vigilance apparently confirmed by the creation of unofficial sites ‘sponsored by indiscreet brothers’ and of ex-Witness sites, which were ‘vehicles for apostate propaganda’.56 It warned against the temptations of online communities, such as chat rooms: ‘Sadly, some who were once our brothers and sisters have had to be disfellowshipped because of association that started by meeting worldly individuals in chat rooms on the Internet and eventually led to immorality’.57 In 1997, comparatively late, the organisation launched its own web sites (www.watchtower.org and www.jw-media.org), which were promoted in its literature as the only ones Witnesses would need to access. In 2013, these were consolidated into www.jw.org" (p. 121).
2. Apparently yes. She repeatedly cites this article which states, among other things:
"The quite visible Legal Department of previous years is claimed by the Society to have disbanded by 1963 (Yearbook 1964, 85-86),24 which is quite extraordinary, given its earlier prominence. What is certain is that disciplined litigation as a strategy was not vigorously pursued until it became obvious to the leadership that religious regulation was compromised by external factors [in late 1970s] [Note 24: We are not inclined to fully accept such an interpretation. Lawyers were still at work in the Society's branches even if it is the case that "disciplined litigation" as a strategy of the central JW authorities was not practiced]".
"According to internal sources, the Legal Department was formally reopened in December 1981 by Covington's secretary. In 1984, it numbered ten people in all, of which a few were attorneys. In 1999, the Brooklyn office is said to operate with seventy-two persons, including eleven attorneys".