LAW DEPARTMENTS AND CLOUD LAWYERING … WHAT'S THE FORECAST?
smoother and more efficient. One possible advantage to this structure, compared to the historical law firm structural model, is that the core group will already be familiar with working with each other, reducing possible personal clashes, startup times, and initial confusion. The quality of litigation may even improve as information flows more smoothly to the end user and as overhead costs decrease — keeping total legal spend low. ILTA
Possible Storms on the Horizon
For corporate law departments, the cloud-based solution market is nascent but not necessarily inexperienced. We were interested to find in the 2011 ILTA Law Department Technology Survey that 51 percent of respondents had either tried or deployed cloud- or SaaS-based solutions.
Your Experience with Cloud- or Saas- Based Applications
While the breadth and depth of such deployments continues to increase, we see important implications for corporate and law department IT policies. Traditionally more insular, we see a more open approach to externally hosted applications.
What is Your Policy with Regard to Internally or Externally Hosted Applications?
2011 Law Department
Technology Survey Analysis and Results
ILTA Survey January 2011
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