Of the top themes presented at this summer’s International Legal Technology Association conference, collaboration and content delivery stood out in the crowd. But what happens when data collaboration and delivery travels to the mobile devices we all carry? Most CIOs see the introduction of unnecessary risk, many experts say.
While nearly every law firm urges clients to manage their data properlyas in having a formal information lifecycle management program in placea large number of firms don’t practice what they preach. A variety of new technologies have facilitated the breakneck growth of data volumes and they are shared and stored in locations outside the physical (presumably secure) firm walls. But this model no longer works, and firms are beginning to recognize that the risk is too high to ignore.
