Privilege.
Protected.
Period.
Senior cybersecurity, infrastructure, and AI consulting for AmLaw firms and mid-market practices. We treat attorney-client privilege as a hard boundary, not a guideline. Document management, e-discovery, and partner-targeted attacks. Handled by people who've cleaned up after the worst-case scenario more than once.
Why Law Firms Are Different
The Crown
Jewels Sit
In Email.
Law firms hold a uniquely concentrated payload: M&A intelligence, litigation strategy, regulatory exposure, and client trade secrets, all routinely sent through email and stored in a document management system that was last seriously hardened a decade ago. The threat actors know it. Ransomware operators target firms specifically, and partner-impersonation business email compromise is a weekly occurrence at firms over 50 attorneys.
Then there's ABA Formal Opinion 477R, state bar cybersecurity duties, and client outside-counsel guidelines that get more demanding every year. We work inside the operating reality of how lawyers actually use technology. Billable-hour pressure, mobile partners, secretarial workflows, client portals. Without making security a productivity drag.
Practice Areas We Support
Every Practice.
Different Threat.
Same Standard.
Every practice area carries a unique data-sensitivity profile, regulatory backdrop, and operational rhythm. We've shipped for firms across the spectrum. From solo personal-injury shops to AmLaw 100 corporate practices. Here's how the work changes by practice.
Personal Injury & Mass Tort
Intake volume drives the tech stack. Case management (Filevine, Litify, CASEpeer, SmartAdvocate, Needles), call center, lead-source attribution. Medical records means PHI in motion. We harden intake without slowing it.
Business & Commercial Litigation
E-discovery is the cost center and the risk surface. Relativity, Everlaw, DISCO, Reveal hosting and security review. Plus deposition video, expert workpapers, and the privilege log nobody wants to defend in court.
Criminal Defense
Digital evidence chain-of-custody, body-cam and surveillance video review, encrypted client communications, and travel security for attorneys handling federal matters. Privilege protection has to survive subpoena.
Corporate & M&A
Virtual data rooms (Intralinks, Datasite, Firmex), deal-team segregation, ethical-wall enforcement, client OCG cybersecurity questionnaires from PE sponsors and Fortune 500 buyers. Wire-fraud defense at closing.
Real Estate & Title
Wire-fraud diversion is the #1 loss vector. We've recovered firms post-event and hardened them pre-event. Closing software (Qualia, RamQuest, SoftPro), MFA on wire instructions, callback verification, settlement-account isolation.
Family Law & Estate Planning
Highly sensitive personal and financial data with hostile-spouse threat models. Encrypted client portals, secure-message workflows, document handling for trust and probate matters with downstream beneficiary obligations.
Healthcare & Life Sciences Law
PHI handling under HIPAA when clients are providers or payers. FDA enforcement matters, fraud-and-abuse investigations, regulatory submissions. See our Healthcare and Pharma industry pages for client-side context.
Financial Services & Securities
SEC / FINRA enforcement work, white-collar defense, securities-fraud class actions. Highly material non-public information governance. See our Financial Services page for sector context.
Intellectual Property & Patent
Inventor disclosures, prosecution histories, trade-secret matters with nation-state threat models. Docketing system security (CPI, Anaqua, FoundationIP), ITC and Hatch-Waxman litigation support.
Employment & Labor
Internal investigations with chain-of-custody requirements, sensitive HR records, EEOC and DOL matters, NLRB filings. Wage-and-hour class action data handling at scale.
Immigration
High-volume client intake with government-ID handling, biometrics, USCIS filings, and an increasingly hostile threat environment. Secure client portals where translation and document collection happen safely.
Bankruptcy & Restructuring
Time-sensitive case workflows, creditor-committee distribution lists, claim-data security at scale. ECF integrations, document-retention obligations, and Stretto / Epiq / Kurtzman / Donlin handoffs.
Don't see your practice listed? The cybersecurity, infrastructure, and consulting pillars apply across every practice area we haven't named. From tax controversy to civil rights to plaintiffs' antitrust to insurance defense to elder law. Tell us what you do and we'll map the threat model to it.
Compliance We Map To
Bar Duties.
Client Demands.
Done.
ABA Formal Op. 477R
Securing communication of protected client information. Encryption, access controls, vendor due diligence.
ABA Model Rule 1.6(c)
Reasonable efforts to prevent inadvertent or unauthorized disclosure. Plus state-bar equivalents.
ABA Formal Op. 483
Lawyers' obligations after a data breach. Notification, investigation, and remediation duties.
SOC 2 Type II
Increasingly demanded by financial-services, healthcare, and Fortune 500 clients in OCG packets.
ISO 27001
The international ISMS baseline. Required by some global clients and most European matters.
State Breach Notification
All 50 states plus DC. Plus GDPR for EU client data, plus state-specific privacy regimes (CCPA, etc.).
What We Ship For Law Firms
Built For
The Way
Lawyers Work.
Ransomware Response
When the encryption hits a Friday afternoon. Containment, recovery, client-communication strategy, and breach-notice analysis.
See more → CybersecurityPartner-BEC Defense
Business email compromise hunt for managing-partner impersonation, wire-fraud diversion, and OAuth token theft.
See more → InfrastructureDMS Implementations
iManage, NetDocuments, Worldox. Matter-centric workflows, ethical-wall configuration, mobile access with controls.
See more → CybersecurityPen Test + Remediation
External and internal pen tests reported in language that satisfies client OCG and bar-association inquiries. With the fixes actually applied.
See more → ConsultingGenerative AI Governance
AI policy for the firm: which tools, what data, which clients have opt-outs. ABA Op. 512 alignment, training pipeline, audit trail.
See more → InfrastructureFirm Merger IT Diligence
Pre-merger conflicts-system review, DMS unification plan, ethical-wall architecture, Day-1 readiness.
See more →FAQs for
Law Firm
Buyers
Don't see your question? Just ask.
What does ABA Formal Op. 477R actually require us to do?
477R doesn't mandate specific technology. It requires a reasonable-care analysis that considers the sensitivity of the information, the cost of safeguards, and the difficulty of implementing them. In practice, that means encrypted communications for sensitive matters, MFA on every account, vetted vendors for any service touching client data, a written incident-response plan, and documentation that you actually considered these things. We build the analysis and the controls together so they hold up under client or bar scrutiny.
A managing partner's email got compromised. What now?
Call us first, your insurance carrier second. We containerize the account, revoke active sessions and OAuth grants, pull a forensic copy of mailbox audit logs, hunt for forwarding rules and lateral movement, and assemble the evidence package for the breach-coach attorney. Then we'll help you make the call on client notification. That's a legal call, but we'll give you the technical facts that drive it.
Do you support iManage, NetDocuments, and Worldox?
All three. Implementation, migration between them, ethical-wall configuration, matter-centric folder design, mobile and Outlook integration. We've also unwound poorly-configured DMS rollouts where security groups were leaking documents across the firm.
Our clients are asking us to complete a security questionnaire. Can you help?
Yes. Outside-counsel guidelines, SIG-Lite, CAIQ, custom client questionnaires. We draft truthful answers backed by evidence and flag the gaps where you'd be lying if you said yes. Then we build the plan to close those gaps so next year's questionnaire isn't a sweat-inducing exercise.
Privilege
Doesn't Defend
Itself.
Senior consultants who actually understand firm operations. Talk through your situation. Usually 30 minutes is enough to know whether we're the right fit.
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