It’s been said, debated and written again and again, with no apparent end in sight: The legal industry lags behind the curve in adopting and utilizing new technology. And to be sure, there are statistics that support this incessant hiding of the deceased horse.

The 2014 ILTA and InsideLegal Technology Purchasing Surveys revealed, disturbingly to many, that law firms had not significantly changed IT spending or strategy since 2010. The previous year, the same survey showed just 11 percent of firms using a next-generation endpoint security solution, 41 percent of firms not using any software solution for managing ethical conflicts, and 27 percent running a version of Word that was seven or more years old.

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