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In light of the The Law Society and The Bar Council of England and Wales issuing their Information Security Questionnaire: I think the issue of security has become absolutely foundational to the work that Jim Meyer and the development team have done when building the LawPage case and practice management system over the last few years. Our app and the layers of associated software have been designed as a fully immersive working environment (which, if it isn't too naff, we call an ecosystem) for any individual barrister or solicitor, or set of chambers, or for any legal practice. This means that as well as all the day-to-day concerns like diary management, time keeping and billing we were utterly convinced from the outset that LawPage needed to have the sort of cast iron security that comes from sitting fully within the Microsoft 365 environment – something that Jim Meyer might add to in a moment as he is a world class expert in that regard. My input as a practising Silk was that I wanted to be completely confident that information is ring-fenced if you like or contained so that you can simply and securely provide access to the right people to only the correct information. A shining example would be an aspect of LawPage I am so pleased with, namely how Jim Meyer and the team have made it a matter of intuitive simplicity using Microsoft 365 to share that information with precisely the people or persons who that should be shared with while keeping all other data securely fenced off. That is just one example of many I could point out of how Jim Meyer has made the LawPage app an utterly secure and simple environment in which to work. #OnlineSecurity #LegalInnovation #ModernLaw #ChambersLife #LegalTech #Efficiency #LawPractice #LegalProfession #FreedomToWork #LawPage #ProfessionalGrowth #LegalSupport #Barristers #Advocacy #ClientAdvisory #WorkLifeBalance #DataSecurity
Criminal Defence and Regulatory Enforcement Solicitor. Director and owner of Egan Meyer Solicitors. Chief Technology Officer at Lawpage, a driving force for technological innovation in the legal sector.
1moJust on the Microsoft 365 point you raise there Richard, I would add that there is so much more to LawPage's handling of sensitive data, and permissions than that but, you are absolutely right that Microsoft 365 provides the backbone of what we do. At a simple but highly significant level, to use LawPage you are required to have a Microsoft 365 business account which means by definition that access to the LawPage app and all your case information contained within requires Two-Step Authentication (which in itself is a misnomer because you require three pieces of information to log in: username, password and then the two-step stage of a code sent to your phone). But that is just the start. There are many, many other elements built into the app that get as close as technically possible to ensuring watertight data security (and certainly enough to fulfil the requirements of law firms own policies) but I just flag up as an example: many law firms hold their data for too long – and with LawPage you set the disposal deadline and after that cut off point case data is automatically deleted which means there is not a pool of 'old' case notes and other sensitive material sitting on the server for years after it should have been deleted.