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22 November 2013 / Nagib Tharani , Joshua Lenon
Issue: 7585 / Categories: Features , Profession
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Local privacy & regulatory issues must not be overlooked in the migration to the cloud, warn Nagib Tharani & Joshua Lenon

As the market for legal services changes rapidly, law firms of all sizes need to be flexible, responsive to client needs and cost-efficient. One consequence of this change is that practice management systems, once considered as just part of the plumbing, are becoming a key strategic asset to serve clients while maintaining profit margins.

A significant development in this regard has been the move of practice management systems from the firms’ own servers and desktop computers into the cloud. Rather than being installed on a firm’s own computer systems or servers, cloud-based practice management systems and their data are located on a remote server and accessed via the Internet. This means that firms require no specialised hardware or software to use cloud-based systems—everything works through a normal web browser such as Internet Explorer or Google Chrome, enabling the system, data and documents to be accessed from wherever a lawyer—or

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