Will Big Law Increase Cloud-Adoption in 2016?

In 2016, as law firms look to store not only traditional documents and emails, but also voicemails, instant messages and various other formats, the cloud is an increasingly cheap, and secure option. Yet many law firms have lagged in adopting cloud solutions.

At Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., many clients specifically ask that their data not be put in the cloud so it ends up on the firm’s servers, according to Gary Berger, the firm’s director of technology. That’s despite the fact that some of those clients use cloud-based services in their own business.

The perception remains that data is more secure on a law firm’s servers ...