Remember when most full-service law firms were devoted to WordPerfect because unlike Microsoft Word, it could reveal codes, display function keys, and strip confidential metadata? In 1997, while I was working as a part-time legal assistant at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, I asked a colleague why the firm didn’t use Word, given that most of its clients did. She just laughed at me. But I’m guessing that in 2011, Skadden uses Word.
The battle between RIM’s BlackBerry and Apple’s iOS for dominance in legal mobile technology seems reminiscent of this previous battle. “Even a year ago, I would have said BlackBerry reigns supreme,” observes Brett Burney, principal at Burney Consultants. Most, if not all, full-service law firms with at least 100 attorneys have a BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), he says. Moreover, BES provides IT administrators “the god-like power to erase [lost or stolen BlackBerrys] and restrict their usage,” he says.
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