Emerging technologies in cloud, mobile and social are altering the way lawyers conduct business and interact with their clients. More than ever before, these 3 verticals are poised to have a huge impact on your firm. Join us for our webinar with Curo Legal‘s Chad Burton and Box.com‘s Nitin Gupta as they discuss:
How cloud technology will impact law firms in 2014
Mobile lawyers and practice management “on the go”
Social media and how online client communication is changing
Cloud, mobile and social technologies are booming, and for no small reason. Utilizing these technologies can allow for smaller, more nimble law firms to easily compete with larger ones, without having to scale their workforce. 70% of law firms have cloud computing in their roadmap; 89% of lawyers use mobile devices to deliver legal services. Are you making the most of the technology available to you?
13. There is a profound message
here for lawyers—when
thinking IT and the Internet,
the challenge is not to
automate current working
practices that are not efficient.
The challenge is to
innovate, to practice
law in ways that we
could not have done in
1
3
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28. Consumerization of Technology is Happening
Apps that work like you do
Access from any device
Collaborative in nature
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29. We’re Moving From On-Premise To Cloud
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•
•
Expensive
Hard to manage
Complicated
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•
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Pay-as-you-go
Flexible and scalable
Access from anywhere
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30. It’s a Mobile World
37%
53%
82%
Uses three or more
devices for work
Uses seven or more
apps for work
Works from three
or more locations
Source: Forrsights Workforce Employee Survey, Q4 2012
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32. Challenges Faced By Law Firms With Existing Technologies
• Accessing and editing legal docs on
the go
• Legacy DMS that has limited
functionality
• Securely collaborating on legal docs
with clients
• Outdated FTP/extranet servers
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33. Our mission is to make law firms more productive,
competitive, and powerful by connecting lawyers
and their information and allowing them to
efficiently and cost effectively deliver legal
services
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34. How Law Firms Use Box
Helps lawyers cost effectively and efficiently deliver legal services
Enterprise
Mobility
Nelson Mullins allows their
traveling lawyers to
access/edit legal docs on
the go
Next Gen
Custom App
Collaboration
Development
Perkins Coie allows lawyers
to securely communicate
with clients via Box
Fowler integrates with
iManage via Intapp’s
integration builder
Infrastructure
Replacement
Geragos & Geragos sets
up virtual data rooms
and client portals
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Editor's Notes
The first challenge that law firms face is the ability to Access and edit legal docs on the go:Lawyers are now constantly on the go, and are facing increased pressure to be more and more responsive to their clients. Currently, lawyers are emailing themselves documents, or carrying around USB drives to then access those documents from their mobile devices or other computers. Lawyers have to find new ways to be able to access any legal document on the go, and have the ability to edit that document if need be.Secondly, law firms’ Legacy DMS has limited functionality:Big and medium sized law firms typically have iManage as their DMS. Lawyers would like to extend iManage’s functionality to efficiently access and edit documents on mobile devices. Some law firms are not willing to fully replace their DMS, but are looking for ways to extend its functionality to mobile. Also, they would like to assign different levels of permissioning to users to acces and edit documents but are unable to effectively do this.Third, Collaborating on legal docs with clients has always been a challenge to lawyesLawyers and paralegals are constantly collaborating with one another and clients, and there is no efficient way to track workflow and version control. Emailing documents back and forth is cumbersome and a history of changes is hard to maintain. Additionally, lawyers and paralegal are constantly sending large files to other lawyers, paralegals, co-counsel, and clients. . Files are being burned on CD’s and then sent to the appropriate individuals. Thereafter, an email confirmation is sent the next day to confirm whether the documents were received. Additionally, files that are being sent are highly sensitive and confidential, and are not being sent in the most secure way possiblenext day to confirm whether the documents were received. Additionally, files that are being sent are highly sensitive and confidential, and are not being sent in the most secure way possibleFourth, law firms have Outdated FTP and extranet servers:Files are currently being stored on FTP and extranet servers, and lawyers and paralegals are having difficulty accessing, sharing, and collaborating on these documents. These outdated servers do not allow lawyers and paralegals to quickly search for and find documents in time-sensitive situations. Additionally, they do no provide heighten security measures/compliance such as HIPPA, HITECH, and SSAE 16 Type II.