I take legal technology apart for a living — in writing, on a podcast, and now on stage.

Ask your case management vendor where your client's file is, and you'll get a soothing word: the cloud. Here's the actual answer. Your document lives in a data center — a warehouse, probably in Virginia — sliced into pieces, copied three times, and scattered across machines that fail so often the whole system is built to assume failure. The magic isn't that your file is somewhere safe. It's that it's nowhere in particular, on purpose. Once you see that, the confidentiality questions get sharper — and the vendor conversations get shorter.

That's a teardown. Now imagine forty-five minutes and a slide clicker.