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We give law firms managed detection, penetration testing, and incident response readiness that answer ABA confidentiality duties, client security questionnaires, and outside counsel guidelines. Privacy programs and AI governance are settled before any model goes near privileged material.

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Overview

How we help

The pressure on a firm's security program comes from three directions: the competence and confidentiality duties under ABA Model Rules 1.1 and 1.6, the breach-notification duties in ABA Formal Opinion 483, and the outside counsel guidelines and security questionnaires corporate clients now attach to every engagement.

We build programs that answer all three, and that hold up against the state rules many firms also carry, including Massachusetts 201 CMR 17.00 and New York's 23 NYCRR 500.

Industry

Legal (Law Firms)

Experience

15+ years on the market

Expertise

Industry specific mastery

Projects

200+ projects

Experience

We secure law firms, where one matter folder can hold more risk than a client's whole network.

Expertise

Confidentiality duties, outside counsel guidelines, DMS security, and breach notification obligations.

The Team

A team that has sat through client security audits on the firm side and knows what satisfies them.

Services

Our services for law firms

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Compliance

Compliance programs built and kept current across SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR: gap analysis, control implementation, and audit preparation.

Cybersecurity

Third-Party Risk Management

Vendor risk run as a program: tiering, security assessments, contract requirements, and continuous monitoring of the vendors that touch your data.

Privacy

Data Privacy Consulting

Privacy programs across GDPR, CCPA, and the newer US state laws: data mapping, notices, DSR workflows, and vendor terms that hold up.

Cybersecurity

Cyber Incident Response

A 24/7 response team for containment, forensics, and recovery, with root-cause reporting your counsel, insurer, and regulators will ask for.

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Consulting

Security programs designed and implemented end to end: risk assessment, control selection, remediation, and the documentation auditors expect.

Cybersecurity

vCISO Services

A virtual CISO who sets strategy, owns the risk register, runs compliance alignment, and answers to your board on security posture.

Technology

IT Consulting

IT advisory with delivery attached: stack selection, cloud architecture, cost control, and security designed in from the start.

Transaction Advisory

One integrated team across the full deal lifecycle, so diligence findings flow straight into value.

Private Equity

Private Equity Consulting

Diligence, value creation, and exit readiness across the hold period, sized for the portfolio company rather than the enterprise.

Technology

Palantir Consulting

Foundry and AIP work from ontology through deployment, run by engineers who have shipped it in production.

Technology

Enterprise AI Consulting

Governed data platforms and defined model boundaries, so AI reaches production instead of stalling in pilots.

Start with the OCG or client audit in front of you. We will walk you through what a defensible answer looks like.

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Our Advantage

Why BD Emerson

Security built around matter data

Client confidentiality is a professional duty before it is an IT problem. We secure the systems where privileged material actually lives: the document management system ransomware operators target first, email, and the ediscovery platforms that move matter data outside the firm. Access is scoped by matter, with ethical walls where representation requires them.

Built for the incidents firms actually face

The incidents that hurt firms most are specific: business email compromise that walks settlement funds out of a trust account, and ransomware that locks the document management system mid-matter. We run managed detection against those patterns, test defenses with penetration testing, and build response plans that meet ABA Formal Opinion 483, which expects firms to notify affected clients of a breach quickly enough to preserve the relationship.

One team for OCGs, audits, and privacy

Much of the work is answering the questions clients ask. We complete outside counsel guideline responses and client security questionnaires with defensible evidence, run the privacy program behind them, and, where a firm's client base justifies it, build toward SOC 2 or ISO 27001 so one attestation can stand in for repeated questionnaires. A fractional CISO keeps all of it moving between audits.

Certificates

Our accreditations

At BD Emerson, we believe that our team's extensive certifications not only set us apart but also ensure that we provide the highest level of service to our clients.

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Case Studies

Featured success story

Large Regional Law Firm: Disaster Recovery Without the Downtime

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Overview

About the Firm

The client is a large regional law firm in the Northeast, with more than 150 professionals working across property, banking, litigation, and renewable energy. Its matters carry exactly the data attackers want, and its clients expect the firm to be reachable and working every business day. Downtime is measured in missed filings.

Challenge

The Challenge: Ensuring Business Continuity

Leadership wanted disaster recovery that did not depend on a single provider. The firm's managed services provider was performing well, and leadership still wanted independent resilience behind it: a third-party DR capability that would tighten the recovery point and recovery time objectives, hold up through a ransomware event, and take unplanned downtime off the table for a firm that bills by the hour.

Solution

The Solution: Partnering with BD Emerson

BD Emerson evaluated the firm's environment and recovery requirements, then designed and stood up a DR solution built to them. Recovery from a ransomware event or system failure now runs as a defined, tested procedure with recovery objectives the firm has verified, so a bad day interrupts hours of work rather than weeks of it.

Benefits

Client Profile: A corporate law firm in the Northeast with more than 150 professionals across its practice groups.

Client Needs: Disaster recovery independent of its managed services provider, tight recovery objectives, no unplanned downtime, and lower cyber risk.

Deliverables: A DR solution built to the firm's recovery objectives, verified through testing, with cost savings.

Client Testimonial: "With the new solution, disaster recovery is just a click away. We can test and verify DR without dedicating staff time, allowing us to focus on our core business. Moreover, our data always stays within the jurisdiction." - Partner at The Firm.

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