Thank you to Connected Data, maker of the Transporter, for sponsoring iPhone J.D. this month. The Transporter is a great tool for attorneys because you get all of the advantages of cloud storage — files that are always accessible from any of your devices, including PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, and even Kindle Fire — while also getting the security of knowing that only you have control over your files, not some third party company that hasn’t signed a confidentiality agreement with you and which uses employees that don’t report to you. Plus, the device itself is incredibly fast and easy to initially setup, and virtually never requires any tinkering for you to maintain the device (although there are lots of advanced tools for doing so if you need to do something).
When you put a file on a Transporter, a copy also exists on your computer, so you have two copies of the file, which can serve as a backup if disaster strikes your computer or your Transporter. You can also buy a second Transporter and keep it in a different location to have a full, automatic, remote backup; if your office catches fire and one Transporter were to be lost, everything would already be and running on the second Transporter. Or if you want to use the Transporter as an external storage device and keep a large file only on the Transporter (and not on your computer), you can store files in the Transporter’s Library folder.
Connected Data has a dedicated page on its website that talks about how attorneys can use a Transporter in their law practice. On that page, you can view videos from attorneys David “MacSparky” Sparks and John Conway describing how they use their Transporters. Or you can watch the videos on YouTube — Sparks, Conway — along with lots of other Transporter videos on the company’s YouTube page. For example, I enjoyed the video with Dr. Michael Laccheo in which that rheumatologist talks about using a Transporter so that he always has access to his patient documents no matter where he is located, while also staying HIPAA-compliant.
You can get more information about the Transporter in my August, 2014 post and my March, 2014 post.