Passing The Bar On Legal Cloud Computing
September 21, 2013
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Lisa Wirthman.
Should lawyers entrust client confidentiality to cloud computing? The American Bar Association (ABA) says there’s a legitimate business argument to be made for using subscription-based legal software that stores certain data on a vendor’s servers but also cite ethical concerns over whether attorneys should hand over sensitive data to a third party. And opinions vary over who has the ultimate responsibility to safeguard client confidentiality – cloud providers or users?
The Case for the Cloud
Attorneys use legal software for tasks such as case management, billing, document assembly and trial presentation. In a profession notorious for long hours, the ability to access legal software over the Internet from multiple computing platforms and devices makes it easier for attorneys to continue working while at home or on the road, says the ABA…
A case can also be made that, thanks to more elaborate security measures, “files stored on the vendor’s servers are more secure than those located on a typical attorney’s PC,” the ABA states…
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