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The Legal Software Tsunami
Originally published in Contra Costa Lawyer Magazine, July 2019 Issue
Excerpt:
Where We Stand…
There has been a deluge of legal, cloud-based software over the past five years. Lawyers are becoming comfortable with cloud computing, understand more about cloud security