Last year, months before the Mossack Fonseca breach-and/or-leak opened all of our eyes to the potential ramifications of law firm security lapses, Recommind commissioned Ari Kaplan to conduct a survey of corporate legal operations professionals. Back in those comparatively innocent days, 72 percent of the corporate officers polled already had security concerns about distributing their discovery data to multiple law firms and service providers.
Yet here’s the real eye-opener: Despite these prevalent concerns, 80 percent of those interviewed for the survey rarely or never audit the technological competency of their outside counsel. Trying to reconcile those two statistics quickly devolves into an exercise of accepting the logistical realities of fast-paced business and the attorney-client relationship; it’s simply not easy to evaluate and manage law firms and service providers to a defined set of security standards and practices.
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