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Turn back time

11 July 2014 / Nagib Tharani
Issue: 7614 / Categories: Features , Profession , Technology
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By making greater efficiencies through the cloud lawyers can earn time back, says Nagib Tharani

For lawyers, time literally is money and there never seems to be enough of it. However, lawyers do actually have plenty of time; unfortunately, much of it is only available in short bursts: between meetings for example or when travelling. Moreover, these brief periods of “empty” time are increasing as legal professionals spend a greater proportion of their working life outside the office. If this wasted time could be utilised efficiently, considerable amounts of “quality time” at the office which is spent catching on routine administrative tasks could then be released for fee-earning work.

Cloud atlas

A solution to this conundrum can be found in the “cloud”, the network of remote computer servers accessed via the internet which are used to store and provide access to software applications and documents.

By hosting and delivering legal practice management software through the cloud, law firms can ensure that their lawyers have access to wherever they are and whatever they

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