Dallas law firms advise corporate headquarters, private equity, real estate and energy clients, and those clients ask hard questions about security. ITServices.Tech handles IT services for Dallas law firms under one agreement, from the help desk and Microsoft 365 to security and backups.
Practicing law in Dallas
Dallas has one of the largest legal markets in the country, with big firms in the Arts District and Uptown and many smaller firms in Preston Center, Addison, Las Colinas and Plano. Corporate relocations to North Texas brought more transactional and employment work, and Texas’s new business court, which began hearing cases in September 2024, has a division in Dallas. Busy dockets mean attorneys need their files and email wherever they are.
Client security questionnaires
Corporate and financial clients now send outside counsel security questionnaires before sharing data, and some include security terms in engagement letters. Typical questions cover MFA, encryption, email filtering, backups, incident response and who at the firm can see client files. We help you answer them accurately and put the controls they expect in place.
Confidentiality and technology competence
Texas lawyers have a duty to protect confidential client information under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, and since 2019 the comments to the competence rule mention the benefits and risks of relevant technology. For a small firm that means encrypted devices, MFA everywhere, safe ways to share large files with clients and a firm policy for confirming any change to payment or wire instructions.
Working from the office, home and the courthouse
Attorneys move between the office, home, depositions and the courthouse. A document management system or SharePoint set up by matter, managed laptops with full disk encryption and secure access to practice management let them work anywhere without copying client files to personal devices or personal email.
IT services for Dallas law firms
- Secure document access in the office and remote
- Email compromise protection for wire and trust payments
- Microsoft 365 administration
- Backups for case files
Everything runs under one managed IT agreement, with the help desk, monitoring, patching, Microsoft 365, security and backups handled by the same team.
Software we support
We support the systems you already run, such as Clio, NetDocuments, iManage and Worldox, along with Adobe Acrobat, dictation and time and billing tools, without making you replace them.
Texas data rules to know
Under Texas law, a business must notify affected people of a breach of their sensitive personal information within 60 days, and the Texas Attorney General within 30 days when 250 or more Texans are affected.
Office hours in Dallas
Office hours for Dallas clients are Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Central, in your own time zone.
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