A Decade in Legal Tech – 5 Surprises

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Travel back in time to 2010. What was appended to your hand back then? A BlackBerry?  Perhaps the least anticipated change in legal is the decline in usage – to nearly zero – of the BlackBerry smartphone. I was rarely separated from my CrackBerry. It changed everything. Always connected. 

Here’s my take on five changes in legal tech in the last decade.  One caveat, I work mainly with documents, email, mobility, and security. Therefore, I see just a sliver of legal tech. You surely have seen others.

BlackBerry and iPhone 11 Smart Phones

1. BlackBerry ⬇️…iPhone #1

In 2011, 40% of attorneys responding to the ABA Tech Survey used BlackBerries. 

Here are the ABA 2018 Technology Survey data on smartphone usage by lawyers:

  • iOS – 68%
  • Android – 25%
  • BlackBerry – 2%
  • Windows – 1%
  • None – 5%

2. The Cloud ☁️

Even as recently as 5 years ago, the mention of the Cloud drew major push-back at law firms. NetDocuments led the way in legal. NetDocuments is in their 20th year. The most famous SaaS company, Salesforce.com, was founded in 1999. NetDocuments was truly a pioneer, now experiencing tremendous growth. In addition, we have seen surprising Office 365 adoption at law firms in the past two years. 

3. iManage’s management buyout from HP

From Interwoven to Autonomy to HP, iManage wound up as niche product in a bloated company. They escaped not a minute too soon. It’s been an impressive turnaround. 

4. Face🧑🏼‍ ID & Touch 🤚🏼ID 

Security and usability are often at loggerheads. Biometric authentication has satisfied both.

5. Edit a document without a PC 💻

Word may be second only to Outlook email as the tool most frequently used by lawyers. 

These two products made it possible: 

Looking back, what surprising developments have you seen in past decade in legal tech?

Happy Holidays!

-Maureen

ILTACON ended one week ago, are you caught up yet? 🙃

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LOL. I am by no means caught up. I’ve got to-do lists and piles of sorted business cards. Plenty of follow-up yet to go. How about you?

If you were there, wasn’t ILTACON fantastic this year?

A View from a Booth

ILTACON 2019 was the first year of Joy. Not only do I mean the first year of ILTA’s vibrant new CEO, Joy Heath Rush, but the first year that ILTA felt truly back on-track.

ILTACON 2019 broke all attendance records, at over 3,500 legal techies comprised of over 1,800 members and 1,700 business partners. Over 800 members were first-timers, which is fantastic. I can imagine that some of the booth locations were poor at the Dolphin. We were fortunate to have good traffic and terrific interest in our LINK app.

Peer-to-Peer Wins

The first time we were at ILTACON in 2013, I was astonished and impressed at the level of peer-to-peer sharing in the educational sessions. Essentially, ILTACON is all about the people. The volunteers and members who create the sessions. The side meetings, the lunches and dinners, the meetups in a booth. Where else can you catch up with so many of your favorite people in legal tech?

I’m grateful for the generosity of all the ILTA community members. Thank you all for making this such a rewarding experience.

Looking ahead, don’t miss #ILTACON20 at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel. It’s like entering a lush biosphere with fountains and rivers. Be sure to visit Nashville proper, too, for music 🎸🎺 and hot chicken. 🌶🍗

-Maureen

Gaylord Opryland Hotel Atrium

We’re an official NetDocuments ISV Partner!

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We’ve been a NetDocuments partner for years. Recently, with Leonard Johnson heading up their partner ecosystem, NetDocuments have formalized their NetDocuments ISV Partner Program. We have used their REST APIs to give NetDocuments users access to their documents and their email in the same encrypted container app, LINK. NetDocuments is committed to the platform approach wherein both Independent Software Vendors and NetDocuments customers can develop solutions for optimizing their workflows using the REST APIs.

It’s easy to review, compare, annotate, file, and email documents all within our LINK app. LINK also offers a managed integration with the Microsoft Office apps for editing on an iPad or smartphone.

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Mobile Document Review with the LINK Viewer

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For easy and secure document review, we have integrated our own document viewer in our LINK app. When you tap on a document name in LINK, it automatically opens in the LINK document viewer. LINK renders all documents as a PDF for high fidelity to the original. If there are Tracked Changes or redlines in the document, they are rendered as well. Or, you can elect to accept them and view a clean copy of the document.

The LINK viewer provides these essential features:

  • Annotate in the LINK viewer: highlight, underline, strike through, and much more, including irreversible redaction; select colors, opacity, thickness; Apple Pencil is supported
  • Split screen view – view two documents, two versions, or an email and a document side-by-side
  • Indices of: document outline/edits, annotations, and bookmarks
  • Bookmark a page and name the bookmark
  • Thumbnails
  • Continuous scroll
  • Search by term
  • Go to a page number
  • View one page up or two pages up
  • Rotate the page orientation

You may view a document in DMS (content management), an email attachment, or a document saved to My Files local, encrypted storage in LINK.

After you have reviewed, and possibly marked up, your document, you then have these quick options:

  • Check-in to your DMS or content management system
  • Email to a colleague or client
  • Save to My Files, the encrypted local storage in LINK
  • Air Print

You can access your documents, review, and annotate them in a single app – LINK.

Learn about new LINK features and webinars by subscribing to our blog at the “Follow Mobile Helix Blog” button.

Maureen

ILTA LegalSEC Summit 2019 Redux

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We are back from a busier than ever ILTA LegalSEC Summit. People attend LegalSEC to genuinely learn how they can keep their law firms protected. This is no easy feat because cybersecurity is a moving target. While Big Law firms participate, there is great value for small and medium sized firms where there might not be a CISO. The Director of IT or network engineer might be the security department. The two or three days at LegalSEC are packed with information.

This year the well-received keynote by William R. Evanina, Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, was recorded. Another popular session was “Leverage These Free Resources to Up Your Security and Governance Game.” Both of these and several other LegalSEC 2019 sessions can be heard at no cost by ILTA members, here.

Heads up, save the date. Next year’s LegalSEC Summit 2020 will be June 1-3 and the location…San Antonio at the Marriott Riverwalk. If you have visited the Riverwalk you know that this is a fantastic location. Hope to see you there.

Mobile Helix LINK at ILTA LegalSEC Summit 2019, June 3-5

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We love LegalSEC!

and we are a sponsor again this year. We will be at Table number one showing LINK’s latest mobile DLP features.

Stop by to say hi and to see a LINK demo. Our LINK app’s encryption, containerization, and authentication provide strong security for your documents and data. Now LINK offers key word and metadata filtering, recipient checking, and restriction on emailing files from classified workspaces.

This year’s keynote speaker is William R. Evanina, Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center.

Register here

ILTA LegalSEC Summit 2019 Keynote Speaker William R. Evanina

LegalSEC Summit 2019 is designed for technology professionals at every level who manage security, information governance and data privacy tech projects and initiatives in support of the practice of law. This exciting two-day Summit offers premier learning and a connected networking environment to focus on information security challenges faced by the legal industry.

See our LINK App at iManage ConnectLive 2019, Times Square

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iManage ConnectLive 2019 Proud Sponsor

We are thrilled to be a sponsor of ConnectLive for the 4th year!

May 7-8, Marriott Marquis, Times Square – Agenda & Registration here

To arrange a time for a demo or meeting at ConnectLive, write to us at contact@mobilehelix.com

With LINK, attorneys and staff work in one secure environment. LINK gives you full access to iManage, email, and the intranet. Search, annotate, compare, check-in, and email documents in one trusted app.

Register now. With the density of law firms in mid-town Manhattan, it could be a blow-out. See you in Times Square!

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