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IT Support for Law Firms

IT for firms where confidentiality is a professional obligation, not a preference — and where one redirected closing payment is an existential event.

40+ years of combined experience · Flat monthly pricing

A law firm's technology problem is not really a technology problem. It is that a set of professional obligations — confidentiality, competence, record retention, the handling of trust money — all now run through systems the firm did not build and often cannot see inside.

The practical risk has also shifted. The threat to a small firm is rarely a dramatic intrusion. It is a convincing email during a real estate closing that changes where the money goes, sent from an account somebody genuinely controls, referencing a matter that genuinely exists. Nothing is broken into. The funds simply leave.

What helps is unglamorous and specific: authentication that does not depend on anyone spotting a fake, records you can actually produce when asked, and a retention position somebody decided on deliberately rather than inherited from whoever set up the server.

What's different about this work

Payment redirection around closings

Real estate and estates work puts large, predictable, time-pressured transfers into email, which is precisely the pattern attackers look for. The countermeasures are procedural as much as technical: verified call-backs on any change of banking details, email authentication configured so nobody can convincingly send in the firm's name, and multi-factor authentication on every mailbox rather than the partners who remembered. Training helps, but the goal is a process that holds even when somebody is tired and the deal closes today.

Confidentiality that has to survive convenience

Privileged material ends up in the places that are easiest to work from — a personal cloud drive, a phone nobody has enrolled, a forwarded thread. None of that is malice; it is people doing their jobs with the tools in reach. The fix is making the sanctioned route the easy one: managed devices, file access set by role and matter, and a clear position on what may leave the firm's control, so the answer exists before a client asks.

Retention you have to be able to act on

Files have to be kept, and then eventually they have to be dealt with. Most firms we see have decided the first half and never the second, which quietly turns into decades of accumulated client data carrying risk and no remaining value. We make retention something the system enforces rather than something people remember, and make sure the archive is genuinely recoverable rather than merely present.

Trust records and the systems around them

Trust accounting carries record-keeping duties that are not negotiable, and the software involved is frequently treated by general IT providers as the vendor's department. We treat it as central: backed up, restore-tested, access controlled and documented, with the recovery path written down. We do not audit your books — that is not our role — but the technology underneath them should never be the reason a record cannot be produced.

Systems we expect to find

These are the systems the work actually runs on, and the ones a general IT contract tends to leave to the software vendor. We treat them as in scope.

  • Practice and matter management
  • Document management and version history
  • Trust accounting software
  • Time capture and billing
  • Land registry and e-filing access
  • Email archiving and retention
  • Shared matter file stores
  • Secure client file exchange
  • Dictation and transcription
  • Mobile devices holding privileged material

What the businesses we look after say is on our testimonials page.

Common questions

What actually stops a fraudulent payment redirection?

A verified call-back to a number you already held, on any change to banking details, without exception. Everything technical exists to support that: email authentication so a lookalike message is harder to send, multi-factor authentication so a real mailbox is harder to take over, and monitoring so a compromised account is noticed quickly. The technology reduces how often you are tested; the procedure is what holds when you are.

Can you help us meet our professional obligations?

We can make the technology support them, and we are careful about the distinction. We put in place the controls, the documented access rules, the tested backups and the retention enforcement that obligations of this kind assume. What we will not do is tell you that you are compliant — that judgement belongs to the firm and its advisors, and any IT provider claiming otherwise is selling you something.

Our staff work from home and from court. Is that a problem?

Not if it is set up deliberately. The problem is not the location, it is unmanaged devices and files taking unsanctioned routes out of the firm. Enrolled devices, access granted by role and matter, and a straightforward secure route for client files make remote work ordinary rather than a standing exception.

How disruptive is changing IT provider mid-matter?

We sequence it around your calendar rather than ours, which in practice means nothing goes near a live closing week. The move itself is mostly invisible: mail and files first, devices after, and the previous arrangement stays reachable until you are satisfied nothing was left behind. What firms tend to remember afterwards is the audit at the start, which has a habit of turning up a licence being paid for twice and a document store nobody had ever tried to restore.

How is your pricing structured?

A flat monthly rate per user, quoted after a free assessment. Firms tend to find that easier to carry than hourly billing, for the same reason their own clients do — the bill does not arrive largest in the month everything went wrong.

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Where we see this work

We cover this work across every area we serve — these are where it comes up most. On-site response differs by location, and each service area page states its own position.

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