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Winter 2019

The quarterly publication of the International Legal Technology Association

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P E E R T O P E E R : I L T A ' S Q U A R T E R L Y M A G A Z I N E | W I N T E R 2 0 1 9 47 T he legal world has had a love/hate relationship with cloud-based systems. It is hard to argue against the notion that almost all the innovation happening in technolo is cloud-based. Law firms and corporate legal departments are quick to fly the innovation flag, though many have avoided the cloud for a variety of reasons, preferring instead to maintain their data in their own data center. More progressive firms that have adopted a private cloud model have effectively virtualized the servers in their data center and moved them to the Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services platform. This approach outsources management of the physical elements of the data center but fails to take advantage of many of the other benefits the cloud has to offer. Application containerization is one such benefit that legal IT is only beginning to leverage. Containerized server- based applications have the potential to revolutionize the way applications are managed and integrated, and Reynen Court is ready to combine those features with other technolo – including its own app store – to lead the revolution. Reynen Court was founded in 2018 by Andrew Klein, a Harvard Law School graduate and former associate at Cravath, Swaine and Moore. Klein is a serial entrepreneur, having founded an investment bank, two asset management firms and a media company. Klein describes the company as "app store for legal" but is quick to point out that there is more to it than that. "There is definitely a part of Reynen Court that is about a catalog of applications that you can find and get information about and ultimately buy and use," he says. "But the app store on The Revolution Will Be Containerized B Y J O E D AV I S your phone is much more than just a catalog of things you can buy. It is actually a complete operating system that makes it easy - almost magical - for the software to come out of the catalog of the app store owner." Reynen Court has built a similar type of system that allows users to find, purchase and securely deploy legal software. The future of IT Making sense of Reynen Court's strate requires understanding several underlying assumptions. First, the data center as we know it has outlived its usefulness. "The single most profound observation that we can share with the vendors and with the law firms is that we have a strong conviction that the data centers are going away," Klein says. "And if you imagine as either a vendor or an IT head that the [law firm] partnerships will not

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