In the lead-up to its scheduled January release of its annual Legal Technology Survey Report, the American Bar Association recently released a report examining the tech usage of solo lawyers and small firms with two to nine lawyers. 

In the report, 63 percent of all lawyer-respondents who use cloud technology said they are concerned about cloud-based services’ confidentiality and security. Among those not using cloud-based services, confidentiality and security (56 percent) and lack of control over the data (40 percent) were cited as key barriers preventing them from using the technology.