IT & Microsoft cloud for legal
Confidentiality, compliant archiving, secure document management and matter security for law firms.
Checked 4 October 2026. Built from the full sector page.
In short: Client confidentiality, SRA expectations, matter retention, and the fraud that actually happens to firms. Start with email and the money path: Friday afternoon fraud and business email compromise are the losses that occur, and the controls that stop them are cheap next to the exposure.
What changes in this sector
Law firms sit at the intersection of highly sensitive data and highly motivated attackers. That is true whatever the practice: commercial work for businesses, from contracts and employment to transactions and disputes, as much as litigation, property, criminal, family or private client matters.
What we would do
Start with email and the money path. Friday afternoon fraud and business email compromise are the losses that actually happen to firms, and the controls that stop them, impersonation protection, DMARC, and a verification step on payment detail changes, are cheap next to the exposure.
- If the SRA position or a professional indemnity renewal is driving the timing, do the evidence-shaped work first: a documented control with a date on it answers the question a form is asking.
- If you are considering AI tools, resolve confidentiality and permissions before any pilot. Client matter separation is exactly what a badly scoped tool will cross.
When we are not the answer: If your firm already runs impersonation protection, tested restores and a payment verification process, you do not need us for this. The gap in most firms is one of those three, and knowing which costs you 45 minutes.
What we do for legal
- Secure, well-structured document and matter management in SharePoint and Microsoft 365, with access scoped to the people on each matter
- Compliant, tamper-proof email archiving and retention independent of the mailbox, for disclosure, complaints handling and Lexcel-aligned record-keeping
- Advanced email security and impersonation protection aimed squarely at BEC and completion-funds redirection fraud
- Bank-detail and payment-change controls, plus user awareness, to counter 'Friday afternoon fraud'
- Data loss prevention and sensitivity labelling so privileged material can't be casually forwarded or leaked
- Layered cyber security (Managed Firewall, EDR, XDR) and Cyber Essentials preparation supporting your SRA information-security duties
- Monitored, tested backup so client and matter data is always recoverable, whatever the cause
What the last 12 months looked like
Three questions people ask
Can you provide compliant email archiving for a law firm?
Yes. We keep a complete, searchable, tamper-proof archive of every message independent of the mailbox, supporting retention, legal hold and disclosure obligations without relying on individual users to keep records.
How do you protect confidential matter data?
Through layered security and data governance: Conditional Access and MFA on identity, sensitivity labelling and data loss prevention on documents, advanced email security against phishing, and tested backups behind it all.
Do you help law firms with SRA and Lexcel requirements?
We put the technical controls in place, secure document and matter management, independent archiving, retention, access control and Cyber Essentials, that underpin the SRA's confidentiality and information-security expectations and map onto the information-management sections of Lexcel.
Ready to talk about your legal IT?
A short call about how your IT works today and what your sector asks of it. We will tell you plainly where we would start.
Prefer to talk now? Call us on +44 (0)1482 770583.