Cybersecurity for Law Firms
Protect privileged client data, meet your ethical duty of competence, and stop the two threats that hit firms hardest: wire fraud on trust and settlement funds, and ransomware mid-litigation. Built for small and midsize practices, with published pricing — not enterprise-firm budgets.
Why Now
For a law firm, confidentiality is the business. A breach threatens both.
Few businesses depend on confidentiality the way a law firm does. The privileged data a firm holds — deal terms, settlement figures, litigation strategy, sensitive personal information — is exactly what attackers want to ransom or leak, and its exposure cuts to the core of a firm's duties and reputation.
That's why cybersecurity for firms isn't only operational. Under the ABA Model Rules duty of competence and guidance such as Formal Opinion 477R, attorneys are expected to take reasonable measures to safeguard client information — including in electronic form — and many state bars have adopted similar expectations. A preventable breach can become a professional-responsibility matter on top of the financial and reputational damage. Meanwhile the most concrete day-to-day risk is brutally practical: a redirected wire on a settlement or trust disbursement that's gone before anyone notices.
Threats Built for Law Firms
The attacks actually targeting legal practices.
Wire Fraud on Trust & Settlement Funds
Attorneys move large sums — settlements, escrow, trust-account disbursements. Attackers intercept email around a transfer and redirect funds, one of the costliest and hardest-to-reverse legal cybercrimes.
Ransomware Mid-Litigation
Encrypt a firm's files in the middle of active matters and the leverage is enormous — deadlines, court dates, and client obligations don't wait. Demands are calibrated to that pressure.
Breach of Privileged Data
Firms hold M&A details, settlements, litigation strategy, and personal client data. A leak isn't just a compliance event — it can permanently damage a firm's reputation and breach confidentiality duties.
Email Account Takeover
A compromised partner or paralegal mailbox is used to phish clients, opposing counsel, and courts in the firm's name — and to read everything that mailbox can reach.
Document-Management Exposure
Weak access controls on your DMS or shared drives mean any compromise — or any departing employee — can reach matter files they shouldn't.
Phishing as Opposing Counsel or the Court
Targeted emails impersonating a judge's clerk, opposing counsel, or a client exploit the urgency and authority that legal work runs on.
What We Put in Place
- Multi-factor authentication on email, the document-management system, and admin accounts
- Endpoint detection and response (EDR) on every attorney and staff device
- Email security with wire-fraud and impersonation (BEC) detection
- Encryption of client files in transit and at rest, with access logging
- Out-of-band verification procedures for trust-account and settlement transfers
- Security awareness training and a documented incident response plan
What It Costs
Sized for solo, small, and midsize firms.
Plans start at $375/month, all-inclusive and published — a solo or small firm fits the entry tiers, while multi-attorney practices with a document -management system and multiple support staff scale up from there. Transparent figures you can budget against, not an enterprise-firm quote — see a full breakdown in how much cybersecurity costs for a law firm.
See Plans & PricingWhat We Hear From Firms
The objections — answered honestly.
Isn't cybersecurity just an IT issue, not an ethics issue?+
Both. Under the ABA Model Rules' duty of competence — and guidance like ABA Formal Opinion 477R — attorneys are expected to take reasonable measures to protect client information, including when it's transmitted electronically. Many state bars have echoed this. A preventable breach can be a professional-responsibility problem, not only an operational one.
Our practice is small. Are we really a target?+
Small and midsize firms are targeted heavily precisely because they hold high-value privileged data without enterprise defenses. Attackers also know firms move large sums through trust and settlement accounts, and that downtime during active matters is intolerable — both make a firm a profitable target.
We have a managed IT provider already.+
Most legal-IT providers are excellent at keeping systems running but aren't security-led. Ask whether they run 24/7 monitoring, enforce MFA across your DMS and email, run phishing simulations, and could produce an incident response plan. If those answers are no, you have IT support, not security operations.
Our malpractice or cyber insurer has us covered.+
Only if you have the controls you attested to. Cyber applications for firms now ask about MFA, EDR, encrypted backups, and training. Misstate any of those and a claim can be denied — and a confidentiality breach can still draw a bar complaint regardless of insurance.
Protect privilege. Protect the firm.
Free assessment: we map your firm against the threats legal practices face — wire fraud, ransomware, privileged-data exposure — and hand you a one-page roadmap. No jargon, no pressure.
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