There’s a lot of hand-wringing in the legal community about cloud computing and security concerns. There are also tons of bar journal and magazine articles threatening dire consequences for attorneys who are not properly storing client data and foretelling the doom and gloom that could result from a data breach.

It seems like a lot of the information I read and hear about law firm security is espoused by people who either have no idea what these new computin’ machines are all about or are proposing some completely insane Top Secret Encryption intended for nuclear launch codes that 99% of law firms have neither the ability nor the need to implement. Allow me to distill the steps you need to take down into five relatively simple concepts. I don’t speak for any bar ethics committee or anything like that, but if you follow my five very simple rules I don’t believe anyone could possibly fault you or say you were irresponsible. Continue Reading