Legal practice IT

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 365

Practice-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 Support

Trust-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 Training

Cyber 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.

MDR

Backup 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 Backup

The solutions behind the work

The most-relevant Chewing IT solutions for law firms. Browse the full solutions catalogue for everything we cover.

Best-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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