Legal practice IT

Legal IT support for law firms and solicitor practices.

Confidential, compliant IT support for law firms — 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 and increasing 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.

Chewing IT supports law firms across NSW with practice-management integrations, encrypted file sharing, conflict-aware document workflows, and the cyber-security stack that aligns with Law Society guidance and your PI insurer's questionnaires.

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.

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.

Email-based fraud and BEC

Settlement-day BEC attacks targeting trust accounts are real and rising. We deploy the email and authentication controls that block the common patterns.

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.

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

Cyber security and MDR

Endpoint protection plus 24/7 managed detection and response watching specifically for credential theft and BEC indicators.

MDR

Backup and disaster recovery

Daily, versioned backups of matter files and mailboxes, with restore 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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Need IT support for law firms?

Book a 30-minute discovery call. No pressure, no quote on the call — just a clear conversation about where your IT could go.