Cloud computing is becoming more widely used than ever before by corporate legal departments and law firms, mainly because of the flexibility and lower cost such technology affords. But some haven’t fully jumped on the bandwagon just yet, slowed by concerns over security and data access.

To be sure, most lawyers are using cloud computing platforms for their practice. Specifically, 55% of lawyer respondents to the American Bar Association’s 2018 TechReport said they used cloud computing technology for work-related tasks, an increase from 52% the year before. Of those, 60% said they used file-sharing website Dropbox, with Google Docs (36%) and iCloud (22%) rounding out the top three programs.

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