What your law firm’s cyber insurance doesn’t cover

Law firms have more to lose from cyber security breaches than most types of business, because handling sensitive and confidential information for clients is so central to what legal professionals do. That’s why increasing numbers of firms are taking out specialist cyber insurance policies. Our view is that cyber insurance may well be worthwhile, but […]

How UK Top 100 firm Winckworth Sherwood strengthened data protection for GDPR compliance

About Winckworth Sherwood A member of the Legal 500 UK and relied on by some of the UK’s largest organisations, Winckworth Sherwood (WS) is a full-service law firm with a diverse client base. Since as far back as 1777 the firm has established its reputation for delivering high levels of client service in high value, […]

Case study: CTS supports Wilson Nesbitt in achieving cyber essentials plus accreditation

CTS is delighted to confirm that their client, Wilson Nesbitt, has been awarded the Government approved Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation. Established in 1948, Wilson Nesbitt is a Northern Ireland law firm with offices in Belfast and Bangor, providing professional legal services to businesses, lenders and private individuals across a range of legal issues. CTS played […]

A guide for law firms to successfully pass a client security audit

Cybercrime is becoming an ever more frequent and sophisticated threat to law firms. At the same time regulatory compliance is becoming tougher, the penalties for non-compliance are escalating, and clients are insisting on exceptional security standards. A recent study by Briefing magazine showed that 72% of law firms are seeing an increase in security audit […]

Automated legal advice: rules, responsibility and risk allocation

Whilst fully automated legal analysis is still some distance away, a number of notable applications are already available—and some impressive commercially available functionality within a few years is highly realistic.  As law firms start to incorporate within their practices machine learning and AI tools, discussions between providers and clients will and should include questions around […]

Akin Gump adopts FileTrail for Information Governance Program

Leading international law firm to use FileTrail GPS to manage records retention, apply client requirements across information repositories. FileTrail today announced that Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, a leading international law firm with more than 900 lawyers globally, has adopted FileTrail GPS to support its information governance program. Akin Gump will use FileTrail […]

Three approaches to protecting your law firm’s data and reputation

Which one is right for you? Nobody in the legal sector is denying the importance of cyber security. Protecting the sensitive data your firm holds on behalf of its clients is essential. It’s an established fact that the threat from cyber criminals is increasing and evolving rapidly, and law firms are responding by prioritising cyber […]

Shoosmiths migrate from LegalKEY onto the iCompli records and information governance platform

Top 50 UK law firm Shoosmiths LLP today announced they have moved onto the iCompli Records Management and Information Governance platform by LegalRM. Following a thorough selection and testing process, Shoosmiths have implemented iCompli for their 1,650 staff across their network of 12 offices. Commenting on the project, Dawn Ingle, Head of Enterprise Applications at […]

Accelerating your law firm’s response to cyber threats

“We’ve never been hit by a cyber attack, why do we need additional security measures?” It’s tempting to think that because your law firm hasn’t felt the full impact of a cyber attack, you’re not at risk, especially if you’ve already invested in security. But the threat landscape is changing, and there are many reasons […]

GDPR: Are the fines real?

  Under the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), organisations may be fined up to €20 million, or 4% of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is higher. In January 2019, the French Data Protection Authority fined Google €50 million for GDPR violations. When the European Union’s GDPR went into effect in […]