{"id":10088,"date":"2014-01-23T13:08:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T13:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/jan\/23\/cloud-computing-legal-profession-new-report-promises-sunny-outlook\/"},"modified":"2014-01-23T13:08:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T13:08:17","slug":"cloud-computing-in-legal-profession-new-report-promises-sunny-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-in-legal-profession-new-report-promises-sunny-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud computing in legal profession: New report promises \u201csunny\u201d outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud computing services and technology is on the cusp of mass adoption by the legal industry, according to a report from LexisNexis.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly three quarters (72.4%) of firms surveyed said they were more likely to use the cloud this year, with adoption levels among attorneys in smaller firms hitting 40% &#8211; a number which is 10% higher than previous surveys.<\/p>\n<p>This consensus is so grounded that, for the majority (38.7%) of the over 275 respondents, cloud systems will overtake on-premise in the legal profession within five years.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a sense in the survey that a move to the cloud was inevitable. Almost a quarter of respondents believe that their employees are already using cloud tools, without the law firm&rsquo;s knowledge of approval. As the report noted, this uncertainty means real usage figures would be higher.<\/p>\n<p>Document storage and management services were the most popular cloud products &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud computing services and technology is on the cusp of mass adoption by the legal industry, according to a report from LexisNexis.<br \/>\nNearly three quarters (72.4%) of firms surveyed said they were more likely to use the cloud this year, with adoption l&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}