How can small firms stay on top of the contract change flood from software providers?
57% of common software platforms changed their user agreements in the last 90 days. 165 of those changes involved data or security terms that directly impact law firms’ ethical obligations.
When we get notice of changes in terms with our apps, most of us click “accept” without reading. But for lawyers, those changes to things like Slack, Zoom, and other tools we use daily could affect confidentiality duties, data rights, and client relationships.
Creative Alliance’s “Take Care” product is an AI tool that purports to automatically detect and analyze contract modifications with actual lawyer review.
The ethical opinions are clear: we need to monitor our software providers and their terms. Take Care is designed to help.
Here’s my post for Law Technology Today.