Legal departments are particularly susceptible to phishing scams, according to Karen Rubin and Tom Zych of Thompson Hine. The news comes according to a report conducted by Verizon, which found company legal departments are “far more likely to actually open [a phishing] email than all other departments.”
There are several factors why lawyers are more gullible than their colleagues, say Rubin and Zych. Perhaps the most favorable is that they are trusting. “We regularly form relationships of trust with our clients, our colleagues and other lawyers. So when we believe that we are communicating within such a relationship, we tend to be very open,” the authors explain.
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