This report is essential reading for law firms without specialist in-house IT support or expertise. Firms have a lot to gain from cloud computing but there is a lack of authoritative, accessible guidance. This new title fills this knowledge gap with expert and objective advice. Cloud computing can be used by smaller firms as a form of outsourcing allowing the firm to cut costly IT overheads. This special report is explicitly designed to help small to medium sized firms to achieve these savings. It includes: clearly written advice for the non-expert with diagrams and screen shots a focus on the risks, merits and practicalities for the smaller law firm authoritative and objective guidance without commercial bias expert examination of the commercial, technological and regulatory aspects of cloud computing. The report is specifically written for the legal practitioner and does not assume a high level of IT expertise.
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Höhe: 297 mm
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978-1-907698-40-8 (9781907698408)
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Tim Hill is technology policy officer, The Law Society.
1. Introduction; Part I: Cloud computing and law firms: 2. Cloud computing; 3. Software as a service; 4. Platform as a service; 5. Infrastructure as a service; Part II: Strategic and operational risks and the cloud: 6. Formulating and choosing a cloud strategy; 6.1. Strategy and modern law firms; 6.2. The legal services environment; 6.3. Resources and capabilities; 6.4. Considering how to compete; 7. Evaluating options and strategic risk; 8. Implementation and operational risk; Part III: Managing compliance risks: 9. The Data Protection framework and cloud computing; 10. Security, privacy and related risks; 11. Managing risks; 12. Social media; 13. Mobile devices and cloud computing; 14. Contracts with cloud suppliers; 15. Conclusions; Part IV: Checklists, tools and references: 16. Suppliers; 17. Due diligence.