Law Society Of B.C.'S Report To Stay Afloat Of Cloud Computing

The Law Society of British Columbia's Cloud Computing Working Group issued its Final Report on Cloud Computing on January 27, 2012, amending an earlier consultation report approved by the "Benchers" on July 15, 2011. The report is prepared in response to the increasing use by lawyers of cloud computing technology to store and process records and conduct due diligence. In its report, the Working Group outlined due diligence guidelines, best practices and also made a series of recommendations to modernize the Law Society's Rules.

Some of the key issues explored by the report are: 

• jurisdictional issues of ascertaining where a user's data is located;
• lawyers' abilities to promptly produce, and the Law Society's ability to quickly access and copy, records during an audit or investigation; and