But the funny thing is a lot of lawyers say they don’t use the cloud, but if they’re using Gmail, they’re using the cloud,” Brown said. “A lot of lawyers are really afraid of this because they think putting all their client data in the cloud is risky. Venture Legal is a one-man firm, suggesting that Brown’s use of Dropbox is a creative solution to a lack of manpower, but Brown would argue the contrary - it simplifies things and, in his opinion, is safe, if not safer than storage of paper documents. In just a year, that share rose to 52 percent in 2017, making Brown ahead of the curve. In 2016, the American Bar Association said only 38 percent of lawyers used cloud computing.
“That’s kind of my first instinct, is ‘why not use it?’ So some of the reasons might be security or whatever, but as long as you’re smart about … it’s really not that dangerous.”įrom Dropbox to Evernote, SalesForce to Slack, these are just a sample of the cloud-based platforms and softwares that are disrupting the legal industry. While the practice is still taboo to many attorneys, Brown uses Dropbox for the purpose of sharing client files or contracts, as well as for document storage. “Most of my clients are startups and freelance businesses, and so I just kind of learned from them, and I use the same tools they use.”
“When I started my law firm, I made a very intentional decision to make it more of a business and less of a law firm,” he said. To say that Brown values the technology would be an understatement-rather, he sees it as a lifeline in which his firm operates. His firm, Venture Legal, works with various small businesses and startup companies in the Kansas City metro area. Chris Brown is part startup attorney and part entrepreneur.
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