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Ten minutes with Jack Newton (Clio)
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11 April 2010
This month we interviewed the President of Clio, Jack Newton. Clio is a very successful web-based practice management system targeted specifically at the needs of sole practitioners and small firms.
Jack talks about the competition, the future of the iPad and other mobile devices in the legal technology industry, why Software as a Service will also be adopted by larger law firms in the future, the confidentiality issues regarding cloud computing, and much more.
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"A common vision for control and governance of email and documents that will satisfy legal requirements and address cost and feasibility concerns from the IT department is slowly emerging. The publication of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) has helped a great deal by codifying the common components that the legal department needs and that IT must provide." 
"The persistence of temporary backup files for four days presents obvious security and privacy issues. If such files contain sensitive, confidential, or otherwise privileged information, their existence can expose a law firm to malpractice risk, court sanctions, or other serious problems / penalties
"The UK Legal market is certainly not a leader in Social Networking but one or two firms are using some of the tools such as Linkedin, Blogs, Twitter and a couple are experimenting with Facebook as a consumer facing marketing tool. " 
