Combiner Wars: AI Usage Is Yet Another Reason for Lawyers to Stop Siloing Data
Law firms traditionally have an issue with data seepage, in the sense that most do not have a single repository for all firm documents – so, those files end up congregating in other spaces, like: a random Dropbox account, or a thumbdrive , or on somebody’s desktop. Now, that’s a problem , in general – you should have all your law firm data in one place, rather than being siloed, because it makes it far easier to find things, collaborate on documents, manage data security and integrate systems . And, if that wasn’t enough of a reason to organize your law firm documents into a single holding tank (honestly, that should be: Google Drive , if you use Google Workspace & Microsoft Sharepoint , if you use Microsoft 365 ), there is another pressing compulsion, now: your increasing use of artificial intelligence. There’s a lot of concern right now about frontier AI models breaking containment ( which has already happened , numerous times), bec...
