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ILTA's 2016 Litigation and Practice Support Technology Survey Results
In the past 12 months, in how many cases have you had to
collect and process social media data?
Does your firm have a policy or requirement regarding
encryption of data when it is transferred out of your
litigation/practice support group? If so, what is required?
In the past 12 months, which methods did you use to transfer
data outside of your litigation/practice support group?
(multiple responses allowed)
5%
42%
61%
65%
77%
68%
80%
2%
40%
48%
53%
60%
63%
79%
0% 25% 50% 75% 100%
Other
Hard/Thumb drive
with hardware
encryption
Hard/Thumb drive
Secure FTP site
CD-/DVD-ROM
Hard/Thumb drive
with software
encryption
File-sharing site
(Accellion, DropBox,
Sharefile, etc.)
2016
2016
3%
5%
4%
13%
22%
38%
26%
4%
5%
6%
13%
24%
26%
27%
0% 20% 40%
No answer
None of the above
Other
There is no policy or
requirement, data are
encrypted only when
required by clients
Data are encrypted by
default unless requested
not to
There is no policy or
requirement, but data are
encrypted on demand
All data leaving the firm
are encrypted, no
exceptions
2016
2015
7%
7%
7%
17%
41%
31%
0%
8%
10%
25%
33%
23%
0% 25% 50%
No answer
> 20 cases
11 - 20 cases
4 - 10 cases
1 - 3 cases
We have not
collected
social media
data
2016
2015
