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JEFF GOENS DIALAWG LLC JACK NEWTON CLIO Safer Cloud, Better Practice: Ten Cloud-Computing Considerations E 18 very so often, a development in technology so profoundly impacts the practice of law that we find ourselves barely able to recall how we previously survived without it. Today, we are in the midst of such a shift, with the proliferation of "cloud computing" technologies forever altering our expectations of data availability, location and accessibility. While the Risky Business ILTA White Paper "cloud" is really almost as old as the Internet itself (the term simply denotes the movement and storage of data using third-party resources), the development of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications residing in the cloud has made it possible to practice law from just about anywhere, anytime. But with this freedom comes additional responsibility. In a profession where the client

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