This report looks at how law faculty use cloud services such as Dropbox, Google Workspace, NetDocuments, Microsoft 365 and other cloud alternatives. The survey gives law faculty usage data on a broad range of cloud technologies and measures their need for and satisfaction with training in the use of cloud based services, as well as the level of trust law faculty have in the security features of cloud services. Respondents also measure ease of use and compare the use of cloud services to use of local drives and storage options.
In open ended questions more than 100 faculty from more than 60 law schools discuss how they feel about the cloud services that they use.
Data in the report is reported in the aggregate for the entire sample and broke out by many institutional and personal criteria such as law school ranking and size, and personal respondent age, gender and work title, among other variables.
Just a few of this 61-page report’s many findings are that:
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21.05% of law faculty from age 50 to 59 use Google Workspace.
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12.77% of law school professors use Clio.
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About 38% of respondents were confident or very confident in the security of their data and files on the cloud services they use.
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Emeritus faculty preferred saving their work on hard drives rather than on a cloud service.