06/10/2026
Practicing law in 2026 looks very different from what it did even five years ago. Electronic filings, video meetings, mobile attorneys, sensitive documents moving across networks. And the duty to keep privileged information protected has not relaxed one inch through any of it.
A breach at a law firm isn't just a technical problem. It's a potential ethics issue, a malpractice exposure, and a hit to the firm's reputation that may not be recoverable.
The single highest-impact thing most firms can do this quarter is turn on multifactor authentication everywhere it isn't already. Practice management, document storage, email, banking, remote access. Every one of them. The places without it are the places attackers go first.