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best practices Contain Yourself Top Five Ways To Protect Mobile Data by Colman Murphy of Accellion, Inc. 18 Peer to Peer Like businesses in every other industry, law firms are going mobile. The iPad is less than three years old, but already 33 percent of lawyers are using iPads for their daily work, according to a 2012 survey by the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center. The vast majority (86 percent) of those lawyers had purchased their own iPads. Law firm employees are carrying smartphones and tablets and benefiting from mobile apps for everything from collaboration to looking up legal references. The benefits are great, but there are also many challenges when it comes to protecting mobile data. Law Firms Going Mobile Employees purchasing their own mobile devices is part of the so-called bring-your-own-device (BYOD) revolution in IT. Five years ago, if lawyers had smartphones, they were probably BlackBerry devices that had been purchased and configured by the IT department. Now those smartphones are just as likely to be Android phones or iPhones that the lawyers have purchased.