1. What does “Legal IT Compliance” mean for a law firm?
It’s the alignment of your technology, policies, and workflows with ethical duties and regulations—protecting client confidentiality while meeting audit and client requirements.
2. Which frameworks and guidelines do you help with?
We operationalize ABA cybersecurity guidance, state bar rules, client-mandated controls, data privacy requirements, and industry standards relevant to your matters.
3. How do you protect attorney–client privilege in IT systems?
Through least-privilege access, MFA, encryption, segmented data stores, audited logs, and clear policies for sharing, retention, and legal holds.
4. Can you help create firm-wide security and compliance policies?
Yes. We draft and implement policies for access control, acceptable use, remote work, mobile devices, data classification, incident response, and retention.
5. What about vendor and cloud due diligence?
We assess vendor security (SOC reports, data location, encryption, SLAs, breach terms), align contracts with obligations, and document risk decisions.
6. How do you handle data retention, legal holds, and deletion?
We map retention schedules by matter type, enable defensible legal hold, and automate secure disposition with full audit trails and chain-of-custody.
7. Do you prepare firms for client audits and questionnaires?
Absolutely. We build evidence packages, run mock audits, complete security questionnaires, and remediate gaps before client or insurer reviews.
8. How is incident response managed to stay compliant?
We define roles, escalation paths, breach notification steps, and perform tabletop exercises—backed by tested backup/DR to meet deadlines under pressure.
9. Can you guide BYOD and remote work securely?
Yes. We enforce device compliance, conditional access, data loss prevention, and secure collaboration to protect privileged information anywhere.
10. How do we start a compliance engagement with CMIT Boise?
We begin with a gap assessment and risk register, deliver a prioritized roadmap, and implement controls and training with measurable milestones.