Mistakes Every Lawyer Makes With Regards To Technology [Infographic]

With the advent of new technologies, even law firm management is adopting various tools to streamline their processes. But law firms are very much concerned for data security and they don’t realize that simple legal technology mistakes handling these tools can compromise their firms, their clients, and even their livings.

For instance, an email arrives from an address that you don’t recognize with an attachment and it is marked as “important”. For the moment, it may be something urgent from a current or prospective client, so you decide to open it. However, with a hasty click, you could unintentionally download a virus that could take over every file on your firm’s server.

Moreover, around 60% of the law firms listed security management as their top IT challenge as per the 2015 Legal Technology Purchasing Survey. Hence, law firms should educate their attorneys and staff in order to keep their data- and their reputations- intact. Here’s an infographic describing some common legal technology mistakes made by attorneys.