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ILTA Webinar May 3, 2013
Managing Metadata for Today’s Mobile Lawyer
Norm Thomas
Brice Duffy
Chief Commercial Officer
Litéra
Manager of Information Systems
Mackall, Crounse & Moore, PLC
Our Agenda Today
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The Mobile
Lawyer
Evolution
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IT’s
Metadata
Challenge
Metadata
Cleaning
Best
Practices
Once Upon a Time…
Lawyers used PCs to get
things done.
IT’s role was to make sure
things worked right.
The boundaries between work and life were clear.
What Changed?
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Choice.
PCs, devices, apps.
Connected. All the time...
Life and Work Became Inseparable
The Mobile User Today
Consumption vs.
Production
 Easy to browse, search and read from anywhere
 Not conducive to authorship or creativity
 Constantly feeding on news and research
Demands of
Time
 Constantly searching for timesavers
 Expectations of delivery times have shrunk
 Never off-grid or out of touch, always connected
Review &
Collaboration
 Interactivity across Intranet, Extranet & Internet
 Mobile-based interaction with people and content
 Form factor sacrificed for speed and convenience
Lawyers’ Expectations of the Firm’s IT Are Changing
My PC
 Work from home PC
My devices
 Smartphones
 Bring your own PC
 Slates & tablets
My apps
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Legal networking
 Cloud apps
“So I can work the way I want to work!”
BYOD = “Bring Your Own Disaster”
Business Risks
Theft
Security
Firm Reputation and client retention
Firm and government regulatory
compliance
Intellectual property (IP) protection
IT Challenges
Unknown content protections
Unknown application vendors
Unknown application compatibility
Complexity to access corporate data
Unique management requirements
for each device
What is IT’s Challenge?
Consumer Experience
Enterprise Requirements
Enabling lawyers to work the
way they want, anywhere
and with any device
Maintaining security,
privacy, control,
compliance
Manage access to information across devices:
• Email/calendar
• Documents
• Business applications
Protect the firm from data loss:
• Hidden information contained in document metadata
• Firm reputation and client confidence at risk through content
The Mobile Lawyer 2012
22% of lawyers plan to buy new
devices in 2012
40% of all lawyers’ emails
are accessed from mobile devices
 89% store documents on their mobile device
 35% review documents on their mobile device daily
 86% forward or attach a document via mobile device
The Mobile Lawyer 2013
79% say they use the same devices for
professional and personal life.
88% forward e-mails with documents attached at
least once per month
26% do so multiple times during a typical work day
78% have a metadata scrubbing solution in place
49% have a solution that covers e-mails sent from
mobile devices.
The Mobile Lawyer - Trends
25% said they forward emails with attachments
from a mobile device multiple times a day up
from 8.3% in the previous year.
24% review documents multiple times a day on a
mobile device, a 10% increase from 2012.
41% of commercial emails were opened on
mobile devices in the second half of 2012 – up
from 27% a year earlier.1
1. Knotice, “Mobile Email Opens Report”, 2013.
The Mobile Lawyer Tomorrow
Tablet growth
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33% of lawyers are using a tablet1
The tablet is expected to outsell
the PC by 72% in the next three
years2
Tablet shipments expected to hit
165.9 million units in 2013, up
from 117.1 million in 20123
By 2016 shipments should reach
261.4 million units.
Tablet advancements
Improved memory/ largecapacity local storage
CPU/Battery improvements
Connectivity improvements
Table docks
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Law Technology Today, “Ten Highlights from the 2012 Legal Technology
Survey Report”, 2012.
John Cox, “Has Your Organization Bought its Last PC”, 2013.
PC World, “Future Tech 2013: The PCs, Tablets and Cutting-Edge
Hardware of Tomorrow”, 2013.
Bar Association Requirements
Jurisdiction / Source
Metadata Opinion/Ruling
American Bar Association
SUGGESTED REMOVAL - Methods for eliminating metadata, including
"scrubbing," are suggested to prevent sending opposing counsel a document that
contains or might contain metadata [Formal Opinion 06-442], and to ensure
compliance with Rule 1.6 regarding confidentiality of client information.
Standing Committee on Ethics and
Professional Responsibility
16 US State Bar Associations
(WA, OR, AZ, CO, MN, WI, AL, FL,
NC, WV, PA, DC, MD, PA, NY, VT,
HN, ME)
Canadian Bar Association
Ethics and Professional Issues
Committee
REASONABLE CARE - 15 state bar associations ruled that attorneys must
exercise "reasonable care" by taking steps to safeguard the confidentiality of client
information in all communications sent by electronic means, including preventing
inadvertent sharing of metadata with third parties.
REASONABLE CARE - Lawyers have an ethical obligation, when
transmitting documents electronically, to exercise reasonable care
to ensure that clients’ confidential information is not disclosed in
the metadata. [Rule IV, Commentary 4]
Primary Sources of Content Risk
Document
Repurposing
Comments and
Tracked Changes
Desktop Cleaning
Tool Isn’t Enough
 E-mail attachments forwarded from mobile devices
bypass desktop-based metadata remover
 Up to 10% of emails could contain sensitive metadata
Metadata Cleaning Best Practices
Server-Based
Flexibility and
Best Practices
Great User
Experience
 Clean attachments sent via any device
 Clean key Microsoft Office, PDF, image and ZIP files
 Basic and advanced metadata
 Profile, role and policy configurability
 Can specify “safe” domains and attachments
 On-demand capabilities - cleaning and batch processing of stored
documents
 Mail servers send mail so Sent Items reflect what
recipient received
 Alert when track changes are present in attachment
 Override, exclusion and granular control of cleaning
Metadata Cleaning Best Practices
 Solutions required for metadata cleaning do not
change for device. Must be able to, from desktop or
mobile device:
» Clean every type of document
» Bypass default server cleaning
» Receive alerts for cleaning options
Metadata Profiles
Word
Excel
• Versions
• Tracked
changes
• Comments
• Date and time
• Hidden Text
• Personal
Information
• Controls
• Fields
• Hyperlinks
• Hidden
columns/row
s/sheets
• VBA Code
• Formulas
• Scenarios
• Charts
• Comments
PowerPoint
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Hidden slides
Revisions
Comments
Custom
Properties
• Notes
• Headers/Foot
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PDF
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Form fields
Author
Creator
Creation Date
Modification
Date
Image
• Embedded
comments
• EXIF data
• IPTC data
• XMP data
Scalable Architecture
Guiding Factors in “Right-Sizing” Cleaning
 Desktop environment
 Exchange environment & architecture
 Mail-flow (total messages and overall sizes of those messages
over a sample period) summary
 An additional script to determine the origin of those messages:
Outlook, Outlook Web Access, or Mobile Device
Contact us
Resources
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2013 Mobile Device Usage
Survey Report
Whitepaper: The Mobile World
and Risks from Hidden
Information
Webinar: Metadact-e Product
Briefing - Wednesday, May 22
Litéra Corporation
US: +1 336 375 2991
UK: +44 (0)20 3004 8426
Email: [email protected]
www.litera.com
From Litéra & ILTA
Thank You.