IT support for law firms in Sydney, the Central Coast & Newcastle.
Confidential, compliant IT support for law firms and solicitor practices — practice-management systems, encrypted file sharing, conflict-checking workflows, and the client-data lockdown your professional indemnity insurer expects.
Why law firms choose Chewing IT
Law firms are bound by confidentiality, professional conduct rules and increasingly detailed PI-insurer cyber requirements. A single inadvertently-shared document can derail a matter; a successful phishing attack on a partner's mailbox can derail the firm. Legal IT isn't a back-office cost — it's the infrastructure your professional obligations rest on.
Chewing IT provides IT support for law firms across Sydney, the Central Coast, Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and the wider NSW region — from sole-practitioner solicitors to multi-partner practices. We deliver practice-management integrations, encrypted file sharing, conflict-aware document workflows, and the cyber-security stack that aligns with Law Society of NSW guidance and the questionnaires your PI insurer sends at renewal.
The threat that keeps principals awake is specific: settlement-day business email compromise. An attacker sits quietly in a mailbox, waits for a property or estate settlement, then emails the client 'updated' trust-account details minutes before funds move. The money lands in the wrong account and the recovery window is measured in hours. Defending against it takes the right email authentication, monitoring and staff habits — not a policy document in a drawer.
IT challenges law firms face
The recurring patterns we see — and the ones that shape how we set up your environment.
Client confidentiality and matter ring-fencing
Conflict checking, ethical walls, and per-matter access controls have to be enforced by IT — not policy alone. We configure Microsoft 365 so access follows the matter, not the org chart.
PI insurer cyber questionnaires
Insurers now ask detailed questions about MFA, backups, EDR and incident response. We give you the answers that get the discount, with the evidence to back them up at renewal.
Settlement-day BEC and trust-account fraud
Business email compromise targeting trust accounts on settlement day is real and rising. We deploy the email authentication, mailbox monitoring and payment-verification habits that block the common patterns.
Practice-management uptime
When LEAP, Actionstep or Smokeball is down, the firm stops billing. We host, integrate and monitor your PMS so an outage is measured in minutes, not billable hours lost.
Data sovereignty and matter records
Client-legal-privilege material and the Law Society's record-keeping expectations make where your data lives a real question. We keep matter data in Australian regions and can prove it.
Secure remote and multi-office work
Solicitors work from court, from home and across offices. We make that secure with conditional access and MFA rather than a VPN nobody uses — so mobility doesn't cost you confidentiality.
What we deliver for law firms
The components we tailor to your sector. Each links through to the underlying solution.
Microsoft 365 with legal-practice hardening
MFA, conditional access, mailbox auditing, sensitivity labels and DLP — configured to Law Society and PI-insurer expectations, with matter data kept in Australian data regions.
Microsoft 365Practice-management system support
We support LEAP, Actionstep, Smokeball, FilePro and the major Australian practice-management platforms — hosting, integration with Microsoft 365, and uptime monitoring.
Managed IT SupportTrust-account fraud & email defence
SPF, DKIM and DMARC done properly, impersonation protection, and staff who verify payment-detail changes by phone — the layered defence against settlement-day BEC.
Awareness TrainingCyber security and MDR
Endpoint protection plus 24/7 managed detection and response watching specifically for credential theft and BEC indicators across your firm's mailboxes.
MDRBackup and disaster recovery
Daily, versioned backups of matter files and mailboxes, with quarterly restore tests and recovery times that meet client and court obligations.
Managed BackupThe solutions behind the work
The most-relevant Chewing IT solutions for law firms. Browse the full solutions catalogue for everything we cover.
Managed IT Support
Fully managed support, security & strategy
A fixed-monthly managed plan that covers your people, your devices and your servers. We monitor, patch, secure and support — and act as your strategic IT partner so technology pulls in the same direction as your business.
Learn moreMicrosoft 365
Setup, licensing, security & support.
Most businesses pay for Microsoft 365 but use a tiny fraction of what they're paying for. We license, configure, secure and support the whole platform — Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Intune and Entra — so you actually get the value.
Learn moreCyber Security
24/7 protection, monitoring & response.
A layered, modern security stack built for small and medium businesses. We combine endpoint protection, application allow-listing, identity hardening and 24/7 managed detection & response — so threats are spotted, isolated and neutralised before they spread.
Learn moreMDR
24/7 SOC, real-world response times.
Antivirus tells you something happened. MDR makes it stop. Powered by Blackpoint Cyber's 24/7 Security Operations Centre, our MDR service detects, isolates and responds to threats — in minutes, not hours.
Learn moreManaged Backup
Immutable backups. Tested restores.
Most backup setups fail silently until the day you need them. We deploy enterprise-grade backup with Acronis Cyber Protect and ConnectWise — immutable, off-site, encrypted, and tested every month.
Learn moreBest-in-class technology partners
We don't pick vendors based on commission — we pick the best tools for the job and stand behind them. The stack we deploy day-in, day-out:
Microsoft
Microsoft 365, Azure, Entra ID
QNAP
Network-attached storage
LaCie
Rugged storage & backup drives
StorageCraft
Backup & disaster recovery
Bitdefender
Endpoint security & EDR
Sophos
Firewall & endpoint protection
Blackpoint Cyber
24/7 managed detection & response
ThreatLocker
Application allow-listing & ringfencing
IT support for law firms — common questions
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Same family-run team, same standard, tailored to the sector.
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