Legal

Secure the practice. Serve the client.

A law firm trades on confidentiality and responsiveness. We protect matter data, keep fee earners productive wherever they work, and hold the evidence that clients and regulators increasingly ask to see.

Coverage
24/7
Aligned to
ISO 27001
Platform
M365
Editorial photograph representing a modern legal practice.
Why they work with us

Confidentiality, mobility and profitability treated as one problem.

Firms lose time to technology in small, constant increments: a document that will not open in court, an ethical wall applied by hand, a client portal nobody trusts. We remove the friction and prove the controls at the same time.

What we take responsibility for

Four missions in legal.

  • Matter confidentiality

    Ethical walls, data loss prevention and conditional access applied consistently across matters, clients and devices.

  • Fee earner productivity

    Microsoft 365, document management and Copilot tuned for people who work from court, client sites and home.

  • Secure client collaboration

    Portals, external sharing and secure mail that clients will actually use, with retention and defensible deletion behind them.

  • Compliance evidence

    Records ready for SRA, Law Society and client information governance reviews, maintained rather than reconstructed.

The pressures that shape the sector

What legal leaders are contending with.

Legal technology conversations start with risk and end with time recorded. Both matter. These are the pressures we hear across commercial, private client and full service firms.

  • Client information security

    Corporate clients audit their advisers. A weak answer on security controls now costs panel places.

  • Confidentiality and conflicts

    Ethical walls have to be enforced in the technology itself, then evidenced the moment someone challenges them. A policy statement will not hold up.

  • Hybrid and court working

    Fee earners need full capability from a laptop in a hearing, with no drop in security posture.

  • Cyber and payment fraud

    Conveyancing and client account activity are actively targeted, so identity and mail controls carry direct financial risk.

  • AI in legal work

    Drafting and review assistants are already in use. Firms need a sanctioned route before an unsanctioned one becomes habit.

  • Utilisation pressure

    Every hour lost to a technology fault is unrecoverable, which changes how service response is judged.

How the engagement runs

From exposure to a practice that runs quietly, in five steps.

  1. Assess

    Business Technology Assessment across estate, risk, cost and capability.

  2. Stabilise

    Close critical exposure and bring monitoring, backup and support to a known-good standard.

  3. Standardise

    Common platforms, identity and images. Reduce variability before adding capability.

  4. Optimise

    Automation and governed AI applied where they measurably earn their keep.

  5. Run

    24/7 service, quarterly business reviews and a costed roadmap the business signs off.

What good looks like

The evidence the business can point to.

  • Walls that hold

    Access separation enforced in the platform and evidenced per matter, not maintained manually.

  • Client-ready security answers

    A standing evidence pack for panel reviews, tenders and client audits.

  • Adoption measured

    Copilot and collaboration rollouts tracked by actual usage and time saved, not licences issued.

  • Recovery tested

    Matter data restore rehearsed against the deadlines a live case actually imposes.

Frameworks and obligations we work to
  • SRA
  • Law Society
  • GDPR
  • POPIA
  • ISO 27001
  • Cyber Essentials Plus
NumataOne

One methodology, applied to legal.

Six categories, delivered as one. Every engagement is scoped and governed through the same framework we apply across every vertical we support.

  • IT Strategy, Risk & Compliance

  • Cyber Resilience

  • Data Protection

  • IT Operations

  • Modern Work Enablement

  • AI & Data Enablement

FAQs

Common questions from legal.

Do you work with our practice management and document systems?

Yes. We are platform agnostic and integrate with the practice management, document management and case systems you already run, and we are candid about which components are worth stabilising versus replacing.

How do you enforce ethical walls?

Through identity and permission structures in the platform itself, backed by data loss prevention and access reviews, so separation is enforced technically and can be evidenced on request.

Can you help with client security questionnaires and panel reviews?

Yes. We maintain the underlying technology and security evidence, including control descriptions, testing records and policy artefacts, so responses are quick and consistent.

Is Copilot safe to use in a law firm?

It is when the underlying permissions are correct. We remediate oversharing first, set the guardrails, then run a measured adoption programme with defined use cases for fee earners and business services.

What about conveyancing and payment fraud?

We harden identity, mail authentication and impersonation controls, and we work with your finance team on the process controls that sit around client account instructions.

How quickly do you respond when a fee earner is blocked?

Monitoring and triage run 24/7/365 with response targets agreed against business impact. Court and deadline-critical work can be prioritised explicitly in the service agreement.

Can you support multi-office and hybrid firms?

Yes. Delivery is remote-first with scheduled on-site attendance, and identity, device and access controls apply consistently regardless of office.

Make security an advantage in your next panel review.

A short conversation to map your matter data, your client assurance obligations and the moves that reduce risk without slowing fee earners down.