Practice area
Cybersecurity for Family Law Practices
Family law is the practice area where the adversary is most often a specific, motivated individual who already knows your client — and sometimes their devices, passwords, and schedule. Security failures here create physical-safety risk, not just liability.
- Most common threat actor
- InsiderMost common threat actor
- Consequences beyond data loss
- SafetyConsequences beyond data loss
- Client endpoints often compromised
- DevicesClient endpoints often compromised
The threat is personal
Standard enterprise threat models do not fit this practice area.
- Opposing parties attempting access to case strategy and filings
- Stalkerware on a client's phone or shared cloud account intercepting your communications
- Shared family accounts and devices leaking privileged correspondence
- Social engineering of staff by someone with genuine knowledge of the matter
Client-side guidance is part of the job
We provide intake-stage device and account hygiene guidance you can hand clients on day one: new email account, password reset from a clean device, MFA, disabling location sharing, and reviewing account recovery contacts.
Verify before you disclose
Identity verification procedures for phone and email requests prevent the most common breach in this practice: a convincing caller obtaining case information they should never receive.
Frequently asked questions
What should we tell clients at intake?
Assume existing accounts and devices may be monitored. Establish a new email account created on a clean device, enable MFA, review account recovery contacts and shared cloud settings, and disable location sharing. We supply this as a ready-to-hand packet.
Can opposing counsel's client really access our communications?
It happens more often than firms expect, usually through shared accounts, a family cloud plan, or software installed on the client's device before the matter began — not by attacking the firm directly.
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