IT for small law firms, built around client confidentiality.
A small firm holds the same confidential files as a large one, without an IT department to protect them. We look after the computers, the email and the documents, at a size that fits a small firm.
Altered payment instructions.
The most expensive attack on a small firm usually isn't a virus. Someone gets into an email account, or fakes one closely enough, reads along, and sends a client new wiring instructions just before money moves. The client pays the wrong account, and getting it back is hard.
What stops it is a handful of ordinary measures, done properly:
- Two-step sign-in on every email account, so a stolen password isn't enough.
- Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace set up properly, including the security settings small firms often never turn on. Business email and workspace
- Your domain's email authentication in place, so it's harder for someone to send mail that looks like it came from you.
- A separate backup of every mailbox, so nothing is lost if an account is compromised or deleted. Cloud app backup
- A simple office rule: wiring instructions are confirmed by phone, at a number you already had, never one from the email.
A line worth adding to your email signature
"We will never change wiring instructions by email. Call us at a number you already have before sending money."
It costs nothing, and it gives a client a reason to pause before paying the wrong account.
Client files protected on every device, wherever it goes.
Laptops that leave the office
Encryption and screen locks enforced on every laptop. If one is left in a car or a courtroom, we lock or wipe it from here. Device management
Documents with the right permissions
Client files kept in your firm's own cloud storage, with access set so people see the matters they work on. When someone leaves, their access goes with them.
Logins in one secure place
Court filing, banking, research and client portal logins stored safely and shared only with the people who need them. Password management
Every computer watched
Protection against ransomware and attacks on every machine, checked by a person every day. Add cloud backup and a dead drive costs hours, not client files. Managed security
The protections a large firm runs, without the IT department.
You don't need an IT staff to protect client files properly. You need the same protections a large firm has, set up once, watched continuously, and explained in plain language.
Gold fits most firms, because a lost laptop full of client files is something you would have to answer for. Silver and Gold
A solo law firm, moved from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365
We moved it because that's what the firm needed, not because we prefer one platform. Other clients have gone the other way, and some have been told to stay where they are.
Like every migration we run, it was scoped first and scheduled around the firm's calendar, not done over a weekend and hoped for the best. Projects and migrations
Firms ask us.
We think an email account has been compromised. What now?
Can you work with the software our firm already uses?
Tell us what's not working.
Tell us how many computers and people you have, and we'll send a real number, not a range. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so.