Do you know how to migrate your firm to the cloud?
Moving to the cloud offers secure, remote accessibility with the advantage of more reliable, efficient, and collaborative workflows—often with less cost. Yet, many mid-sized law firms still haven't embraced cloud-based solutions.
Learn why it’s time to get started with cloud computing and explore how to make the switch as seamless as possible. Join Joshua Lenon, Clio’s Lawyer in Residence, as he explains what firms need to know when moving to the cloud.
In this free, 1-hour webinar, you’ll learn about:
How to save money, enhance productivity, and increase security with cloud-based software
Which migration concerns to consider when selecting cloud-based solutions
What traps to avoid when evaluating legal-focused cloud-based software
2. Joshua Lenon
• Lawyer in Residence
at Clio
• Attorney Admitted
in New York
• @JoshuaLenon
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3. Agenda
• Cloud Adoption
• What is the Cloud?
• Cloud Penetration in Law Firms
• Compliance is Cost Savings
• Products as a Service
• Evaluating Cloud Legal Technology
• Questions
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6. 63% of law firms plan to increase
cloud computing adoption in 2018.
Why?
7. NIST Cloud Definition
“Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous,
convenient, on-demand network access to a shared
pool of configurable computing resources (e.g.,
networks, servers, storage, applications, and
services) that can be rapidly provisioned and
released with minimal management effort or service
provider interaction”
Source: NIST Definitionof CloudComputing; Special Publication800-145
8. 4 Reasons to Go Cloud
1. Mobility
2. Costs
3. Security
4. Process
9. Cloud Mobility
Pick a cloud solution if:
• You use multiple devices
• You work in multiple locations
• Growing teams
• Leveraging other online services
10. Costs: Cloud Saves You Money
• Turn key solutions
• No long term contracts
• No hardware investment
Cloud solutions cut costs by 30% or more
11. Federal Labor Relation Authority
(FLRA) Case Management System
• 88% reduction in total cost of ownership over a five
year period
• Eliminated up-front licensing cost of $273,000
• Reduced annual maintenance from $77,000 to $16,800
• Eliminated all hardware acquisition costs
• Secure access from any Internet connection
• Ability to operate and access case information from any
location in the world, supporting the virtual enterprise
Source: Cloud.CIO.gov
12. Cloud Economies
Dedicated Security Team Greater Investment in
Security Infrastructure
Fault Tolerance and
Reliability
Greater Resiliency Hypervisor Protection
Against Network Attacks
Simplification of
Compliance Analysis
Data Held by Unbiased
Party
Low-Cost Disaster
Recovery and Data
Storage Solutions
On-Demand Security
Controls
Real-Time Detection of
System Tampering
Rapid Re-Constitution of
Services
Source: Cloud.CIO.gov
13. Cloud is Already in Law Firms
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Source: SkyhighNetworks CloudAdoptionandRisk
Report 2016
21. Legal Services as a Product
Davis Wright Tremaine’s
DWT De Novo builds
efficient systems to
handle volume legal
work and helping make
the legal function more
strategic.
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22. Building Legal Service Products
1. Discovering potential products by identifying
opportunities for automation;
2. Developing the products and enabling them to
process, analyze, and learn from data; and
3. Monetizing them by building a revenue model
that captures benefits from automation and the
application of analytics.
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28. Cybersecurity Preparedness
in Mid-Size Law Firms
• 31% have no security awareness training
• 45% have no intrusion detection system
• 49% have no intrusion prevention system
• 79% have no data loss prevention
• 83% have no administration password management
• 98% have no 2-factor authentication for internal access
Source: ILTA 2017 Tech Survey
34. Cloud Costs
Necessitate User Management
• Cloud users underestimate the amount of wasted cloud
spend. Respondents estimate 30 percent waste, while
RightScale has measured actual waste between 30 and 45
percent.
• Despite an increased focus on cloud cost management, only
a minority of companies are taking critical actions to
optimize cloud costs, such as shutting down unused
workloads or selecting lower-cost clouds or regions.
• Optimizing cloud costs is the top initiative across all cloud
users (53 percent) and especially among mature cloud users
(64 percent).
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Source: Rightscale 2017 State of the CloudReport
35. Not All Cloud Providers Alike
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Source: SkyhighNetworks CloudAdoptionandRisk
Report 2016
39. American Bar Association’s 2016
Legal Technology Survey
What core functionality do you require in a practice and
financial management cloud computing solution?
1. Time and billing
2. Centralized case management
3. Scheduling/calendaring
4. Document management
5. Conflict Checking / Contact management
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45. Clio is Confidential
ToS §7.1
• If Themis is required by law to make any disclosure
of the Confidential Information that is prohibited or
otherwise constrained by this Agreement, then
Themis will provide Subscriber with prompt written
notice (to the extent permitted by law) prior to
such disclosure so that the Subscriber may seek a
protective order or other appropriate relief.
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46. Clio is a member benefit offered by
66 state and local bar associations
47. Mental Challenges With
Cloud Adoption
• Moving from a commercial
model and mindset of “buying” a
piece of software to a “pay-as-
you-consume” business case
• Moving from a mindset of
“owning” data (on our premises
and servers), to place of being a
sovereign guardian over data.
• Moving from the idea of heavily
customizing “our” system to the
idea of configuring flexibly to
allow constant improvement and
upgrade
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49. Conclusion
Law Firms are adopting cloud computing
to gain significant competitive
advantages in cost savings, mobility,
compliance & security, and product
offerings for clients.
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