Technology is full of exploitable gaps for hackers to capitalize on, and rumblings from multiple entities in the financial space seem to indicate that law firms are full of them. While firms may not be covered under the same laws as other organizations that require disclosure of breaches, the fact of the matter is their reputations depend on them to be more proactive.

Jake Frazier, senior managing director of FTI Consulting Inc., said in an interview with Legaltech News, that in his time helping organizations with their e-discovery projects, the difference in attitudes between corporate clients and firms regarding information security was well known.

Speaking specifically of an experience he had prior to joining FTI that had him processing backup tapes, Frazier said, “We would go through these rigorous security audits for corporate clients when we'd go to pick these tapes up. They'd send people down to watch us and test the door locks to ensure our fingerprints wouldn't open them. At a law firm we were working with on the same project, there would be a box of backup tapes sitting outside the door of the partner. ”