Do Law Firms have Data Security Liability?
Friday, July 19th, 2013As of 2010, 91% of all law firms have 10 or fewer employees; 99.6% have less than 100 employees1. The smaller the firm, the less likely they are to have a strong IT department and are much more likely to be focused on case load rather than on current changes in the compliance landscape that are now impacting them. Indeed, one of the largest segments of new law firms are small practices run by folks that have left larger firms … and such folks arguably have less time to spend on such considerations with the amount of legal work per lawyer in the United States becoming increasingly less.
Email and messaging — more and more information is sent digitally. For the legal profession, this is also increasingly true due to the time saving nature of such communications, the high time cost associated with legal work, and the ever-present push to get things done faster.
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