It is not the sexiest subject in the business or technology world, but for the majority of legal IT directors, IT infrastructure is the backbone of their work. Tussling with day-to-day operational issues, managing strategic change and rolling out new services – it is a dynamic area that, when handled successfully, no lawyer should know exists.

But how are law firms faring with the obstacles of mergers, upgrades, roll-outs and office moves? To find out more about the increasingly changing attitudes towards the firm's core infrastructure, Legal IT undertook a survey of IT directors.

In the recent survey two factors, network resilience and security, were by far the highest priorities with regard to their infrastructure. When asked to rate what they believed to be their highest priorities, more than 80% of respondents stated resilience as a 'high' or 'very high' priority. This was closely followed by security, with more than 65% of IT directors claiming it was a 'high' or 'very high' priority.