Industries — Law Firms
IT support and cybersecurity for New York law firms
For firms of 5 to 75 attorneys, security is now a condition of engagement: clients send questionnaires, outside counsel guidelines set control requirements, and the firms that can answer well win the work.
Your clients are your regulator
Law firms rarely lose business over technology — until a corporate client’s outside counsel guidelines require SOC 2 alignment, enforced MFA, encryption at rest, and a 24-to-72-hour breach-notification window, and the engagement waits on your answers. Security questionnaires now regularly run past a hundred questions, and they are written by the client’s security team, not its lawyers.
Underneath the questionnaires sits the real obligation: matter confidentiality. Privileged material concentrated in a document management system, shared with co-counsel and experts, accessed from home and from court — a small firm holds data its adversaries would pay to read.
The legal-specialist providers anchor on the AmLaw tiers. Stedholm works the segment below: firms large enough to receive OCGs, small enough that nobody on staff owns security. Related: SOC 2 readiness, how financial firms face the regulator-driven version of the same pressure, and the other industries we serve.
What clients now ask for
Completed security questionnaires, often 100+ questions
MFA enforced on email and remote access
Encryption at rest and in transit
Breach notification inside 24–72 hours
SOC 2 or equivalent program evidence
Named security responsibility
What we run for law firms
Controls chosen to satisfy OCGs and insurers, operated so the evidence exists before anyone asks for it.
Questionnaire and OCG response
Through vCISO engagement, we draft the technical answers with you, keep the evidence current, and turn each questionnaire from a fire drill into a lookup.
Document management support
Managed IT that treats your DMS — iManage, NetDocuments, or Worldox — as the production system it is: access control, performance, and vendor coordination.
Email security
Email security tuned to the attacks law firms actually see: settlement and payoff wire fraud, counterfeit counsel domains, thread hijacking.
Managed detection and response
MDR across endpoints and identity — monitored around the clock by our tooling, with engineer escalation.
Backup and matter continuity
Immutable, tested backups of the DMS, email, and file stores, with restores rehearsed before you need them.
Awareness training
Training built around legal workflows — wire verification, client impersonation, deadline-pressure phishing.
Common questions from law firms
A client sent us a 200-question security questionnaire. Can you handle it?
We complete it with you: we draft the technical answers from the controls we actually run, flag the gaps honestly, and prioritize remediation so next quarter’s questionnaire reads better than this one. We will not attest to controls that do not exist.
Do we need SOC 2?
Sometimes the honest answer is alignment rather than the audit. Many OCGs accept documented controls mapped to SOC 2 criteria; some clients require the report itself. We run SOC 2 readiness so the audit, if you need it, is a confirmation rather than a discovery.
Do you support iManage or NetDocuments?
We manage the environments they run in — identity, endpoints, network, and backup — and coordinate directly with the DMS vendor on their layer. We are candid about where our administration ends and the vendor’s begins.
Answer the next questionnaire from strength.
Talk to an engineer about your OCG obligations and your current posture — you keep the findings either way.