IT guides for law firms
Written for partners, practice managers and internal IT people at firms of about 10 to 150 people. Each one deals with a single problem and is useful whoever looks after your IT.
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Legal document management and secure sharing in Microsoft 365
Matter-based permissions, external sharing controls, sensitivity labels and retention, and how they sit beside a practice or document management system.
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When your practice system meets Microsoft 365
Who owns what between vendor, IT provider and firm, plus email filing, add-ins, sign-in, updates and a ten-minute test to run after every change.
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IT handover checklist for law firms changing provider
A printable list of what the firm should hold before and after it changes IT provider, timed around court dates and settlements.
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Keeping a law firm working through an outage
Four outage scenarios, the first fifteen minutes of each, the roles to name and what to agree with your IT provider and vendors in advance.
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Legal practice IT risk self-assessment
Eighteen yes, no or unsure questions that sort your answers into areas to address first and next. It runs in your browser and sends nothing.
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An IT and cyber checklist for law firm partners
Twenty-six plain questions in eight sections that any partner can put to their IT provider.
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Keeping your firm working
How monitoring, scheduled patching, restore-tested backups and planned replacements keep downtime down.
1. How these guides are written
Plainly, and without product names. Where a guide describes a Microsoft feature, it was checked against Microsoft Learn in October 2026 and the pages are listed at the end of the guide. Where the subject touches on legal obligations, the guide stays general and says so.
2. Who publishes them
Law MSP is a name Jinba IT uses for its managed IT for law firms. About Law MSP explains who we are and what we do and don't claim.
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