Even a pandemic can’t force some lawyers to embrace cloud-based software. While many industry observers and vendors predicted COVID-19 would deliver the final blow to on-prem preferences as many lawyers worked remotely, old habits are hard to break.

According to the American Bar Association’s 2021 Tech Report, 60% of the 318 respondents, ranging from solo practitioners to Big Law attorneys, said they used cloud computing for work-related tasks. That majority is an increase from the ABA’s 2020 report (59%) and figures from 2019 (58%) and 2018 (55%).