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IT & Microsoft cloud for legal
Confidentiality, compliant archiving, secure document management and matter security for law firms.
Legal
In legal, confidentiality isn't a feature you add on, it's the professional obligation everything else is built on, and a single mishandled document, misdirected email or breach can undo years of client trust and put you in front of your regulator.
Law firms sit at the intersection of highly sensitive data and highly motivated attackers. You hold confidential client and matter information protected by legal professional privilege, you handle client money, and you're bound by the SRA's Standards and Regulations, including the duty to keep client affairs confidential and to protect client assets and information. Firms pursuing or holding the Lexcel practice management standard have a further, explicit bar to clear on information management and risk. At the same time, conveyancing and other matters that move money make firms a prime target for business email compromise and the 'Friday afternoon fraud' that redirects completion funds, and a misdirected email or a lost laptop is a reportable data breach. The practical need is watertight document and matter management, a defensible and independent record of every communication for disclosure and complaints, and security that stands up to both a determined attacker and a regulator's questions after the fact.
What we do for legal
Questions we hear a lot
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. We can't write your policies or run your practice, but we give you the systems and the evidence behind them so your COLP and COFA can demonstrate the controls are real.
How do you protect us against completion-funds and 'Friday afternoon' fraud?
This is one of the biggest risks in legal, and it's usually an email problem rather than a hacking one. We layer impersonation and anti-phishing protection in front of mailboxes, lock down email authentication (SPF, DKIM and DMARC), enforce MFA and Conditional Access on identity, and put process controls around any change to bank details, so a convincing request to redirect completion money is far less likely to land or be acted on.
Does client information stay in the UK?
We build on Microsoft 365 and Azure, where data residency can be configured, and we'll set up your tenant so client and matter data is held in line with your confidentiality obligations and what your clients expect. We'll be clear with you about where data sits and how it's protected in transit and at rest.
Ready to talk about your legal IT?
Every engagement starts with a free assessment. No pressure, no cost, just a clear view of what's possible.