IT for Legal / Law
Privilege isn't a feature you turn on — it's an operating posture. We run IT for litigation boutiques, transactional shops, and full-service firms that need their tech to be quiet, defensible, and explainable to a managing partner in under five minutes.
The five problems we fix first in legal.
These are the patterns we hear in the first call, every time. The order matters — solving them in this sequence keeps the work calm and the budget predictable.
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DMS that everyone hates using
Folders that don't match matter taxonomy, search that returns nothing useful, version conflicts that nobody can untangle. We rebuild iManage / NetDocuments environments around how your firm actually files matters.
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Ethical walls held together by Outlook rules
Group policy, conditional access, and matter-level entitlements — enforced by the system, not by hope. Auditable in writing.
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Off-boarding that leaks privilege
A laptop in a former associate's drawer is a malpractice carrier's nightmare. Same-day offboarding scripts, MDM wipe, OAuth token revocation, signed evidence pack.
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Client cybersecurity questionnaires that take a week to answer
We pre-build the artifacts: SOC 2-style policies, network diagrams, incident response plan, vendor BAAs. Most questionnaires take 90 minutes after onboarding.
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Mobile partners on hostile networks
Hotel Wi-Fi, depositions in offices you don't control, court Wi-Fi during trial. Always-on VPN, conditional access, and split-tunnel rules that don't kill battery.
The legal playbook.
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Every legal engagement starts with a privilege architecture conversation. Where does each client's data live? Who has access today? How does access change when an associate moves matters? That conversation is the foundation; the technology choices flow from it.
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We deploy and tune document management — iManage Cloud, NetDocuments, or SharePoint Online for smaller firms — around your matter taxonomy, ethical walls, and retention obligations. Migrations preserve metadata, not just file paths.
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Identity is the perimeter. Phish-resistant MFA for all attorneys and staff, conditional access policies that vary by role and risk, just-in-time admin elevation, and a privileged access management posture that withstands a sophisticated targeted attack.
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Operationally we look like an in-house IT director the firm never had to hire — quarterly business reviews with the managing partner, written budget recommendations every fall, and a single named engineer who knows your matter ops.
Aligned with the rules your auditors ask about.
State bar opinions on cloud storage
Reasonable encryption, vendor due diligence, data residency awareness — documented per matter when client engagement letters require it.
Client cybersecurity addenda
Standard answers prepared in advance for the top 25 questions that show up in F500 client cybersecurity addenda and outside counsel guidelines.
GDPR / CCPA where applicable
European or California-resident matter parties handled per their jurisdiction, with data subject request workflows wired up.
HIPAA (when client representation requires it)
Plaintiff or defense work involving PHI gets the elevated controls — encrypted file transfer, access reviews, BAAs with all sub-contractors.
Tools we know inside out.
We bring vendor relationships and deployment muscle for the platforms that run legal every day.
Services that fit legal.
Litigation boutique, 28 attorneys, regional offices
Migrated a fragmented Worldox + on-prem Exchange environment to iManage Cloud + Microsoft 365 with BYOK encryption and FIDO2 mandatory for partners. Three F500 client cybersecurity questionnaires that previously took 5–7 days each now take a single afternoon. The firm has not had a single inadvertent privilege breach since onboarding.
Tell us about your legal environmentCommon legal questions.
Don’t see yours? Drop us a note — we answer every email personally, usually within the hour.
Will my matter metadata survive migration?
Yes. We preserve every metadata field, version history, custodian, and access permission during DMS migrations. Migrations are run in waves with validation reports per wave; nothing goes live until you sign off.
Can you enforce ethical walls technically?
Yes — Active Directory groups + conditional access + DMS matter-level entitlements + Outlook delegation locking. Walls hold up to discovery. We document the architecture per matter when conflicts counsel asks.
How do you handle data residency for international clients?
Per-matter tenant scoping with regional cloud hosting (M365 / iManage Cloud regional). We can also keep specific matters on-prem if engagement letters require it; hybrid is supported.
What about trial tech?
We coordinate with trial-tech vendors (TrialDirector, OnCue, Sanction), make sure exhibits flow into DMS afterward, and run pre-trial loadouts for laptops, Wi-Fi MiFi, and backup options when court Wi-Fi inevitably fails.
Do you handle e-discovery?
We don't run review platforms — that's your e-discovery vendor's job — but we handle the IT side: legal hold infrastructure, ESI preservation, secure custodian collections, exporting to Relativity / Reveal / Logikcull.
Leading IT
Solutions.
Tell us about your stack, your bottlenecks, your wishlist. We’ll send back a written plan inside 48 hours — no pitch deck, no pressure, no contract talk until you ask for it.