“The cloud” remains among the most popular yet mystifying elements of a modern legal technology strategy. Cloud computing, which stores increasing amounts of data and services on servers accessible via the internet, has flipped traditional notions of data security and efficiency on their heads.

But while cloud computing raises concerns for attorneys, law firms and legal departments are adopting the technology at growing rates. Fifty-six percent of Am Law 200 firms polled in the “Partnership Perspectives Survey” use some form of cloud technology, and 47 percent of those polled in the “2016 ILTA/InsideLegal Technology Purchasing Survey” predicted that over a quarter of their firm’s software and service offerings could be cloud-based in the next one to three years.

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