Your current and future clients are not going to trust you with their sensitive information and therefore you won’t be able to help them.Īnd once you’ve been the victim of a data breach … then what? The reputational damage of a data breach is monumental. People like your prospective, current and past clients, colleagues, judges, opposing counsel … etc. of the incident AND every single person in your contact list. If you don’t know how to secure your data and reduce your risk of a data breach…nothing else matters.īecause if you experience a data breach and have to notify the Office of Disciplinary Counsel, State Bar, Attorney General, etc. Well… if you’re still reading this, it means that you gotta get GOOD at securing your practice… and fast.
This is borne out by 21% of respondents reporting that they do not know whether their firm has ever experienced a security breach.
I have always thought it likely that this stat is low – in many firms, especially large firms, attorneys may never learn of a breach unless it becomes public. *source: ABA 2020 Legal Technology Survey Report Did you know that 29% of law firms experienced a security breach in 2020? 🎯 🔐
