IT for law firms that can't afford an IT incident.
A law firm's technology carries client confidentiality, regulatory obligations and the firm's reputation in every email. Case management, Microsoft 365, document management, secure client communication, remote working — it all has to be secure, available and defensible. Foundry runs it as one accountable partner.
Sound familiar?
Common patterns in the working week of solicitors, written the way they tend to sound. They are illustrations, not quotes from clients. If more than one of these is your week, keep reading.
- A fee earner is working from court on a laptop that hasn't been updated since it was unboxed.
- Completion funds nearly went to the wrong account because an email looked right.
- A partner has admin rights to systems they have never logged into.
- We sent a bundle to the other side and now can't un-send it.
- The office manager is IT, HR and facilities, and it's only Tuesday.
Your environment
What the business actually depends on.
- Microsoft 365 with heavy Outlook, Teams and SharePoint use
- Case and practice management systems, often hosted
- Document management and e-signature platforms
- Client communication by email with sensitive attachments
- Fee earners working from home, chambers, court and the office
- Legacy servers and file shares nobody wants to touch
Your risks
Security, compliance, availability and data.
- Email account compromise leading to payment redirection fraud
- Ransomware locking matter files days before a hearing
- Confidential documents shared with the wrong party, permanently
- SRA, GDPR and Lexcel obligations around information security
- Cyber-insurance requirements for MFA, EDR and tested backups
- Departing fee earners retaining access to client files
Your problems
The IT frustrations these businesses run into.
- The office manager is IT, HR and facilities at once
- Practice management vendor and IT provider blame each other
- Onboarding a new fee earner takes a week of chasing
- Nobody can say with confidence what is backed up or whether it restores
- Partners are administrators of systems they've never logged into
The Foundry solution
Foundry becomes the firm's technology department. We administer Microsoft 365 and identity, manage every device, run a security baseline built for the attacks law firms actually face, back up and test-restore your matter data, and give clients and counterparties a secure workspace for documents. One team, one monthly cost, and evidence you can show a regulator or insurer.
Your Foundry stack
The capabilities of the platform that matter most for solicitors, and what each one is for. Take what you need.
Foundry Support
→ Helpdesk, laptops managed and patched, Microsoft 365 administration, starters and leavers
Foundry Secure
→ MFA, Conditional Access, EDR, email security, incident response, Cyber Essentials
Foundry Connect
→ Microsoft 365, email, Teams telephony, SharePoint, identity
Foundry Portal
→ Secure matter document sharing with access that ends when the matter does
Foundry Cloud
→ Cloud servers for case management and legacy file shares, Microsoft 365 backup, tested recovery
Foundry Web
→ Domain in your name, DNS, website hosting, certificates, WAF