Virtual employment is not a new concept for Americans, but the once verboten staffing strategy has been increasingly adopted by law firms and legal service providers alike in the last few years. Increases in remote workforces have dramatically altered the balance between quality of life, base and variable compensation, profit sharing, commuter cost, quality of work product, time availability and more for legal technology professionals.

This article will take a brief look at the employer and employee advantages and disadvantages as legal jobs, like legal data, “move to the cloud.”

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