Managed IT for law firms

Managed IT for firms where confidentiality is the product.

A law firm's inbox is one of the few places where clients move large sums on the strength of an email. Stealth keeps matter files, email and practice systems running and locked down, treats a filing deadline as a priority incident, and documents the controls so a client security questionnaire is a form you fill in, not a project.

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Fully managed or alongside your own IT. Boston, Tampa, Sarasota and Greater Philadelphia. Call (617) 903-5559.

What an hour of downtime costs a 25-timekeeper firm

Timekeepers	25
Average billing rate	$300 / hour
Share blocked by a typical outage	80%
One hour down	$6,000
One lost day	$48,000

Before the missed filing, the client who noticed, and the partner who spent the afternoon on the phone with IT.

0 unplanned downtime during a SmoothSwitch migration110/110 independent assessment for a defense client, in 90 days5.0 Google rating96.4% positive client service feedback

Why firms call us

Nobody calls about IT. They call about the matter.

One of these usually just happened:

Updated wire instructions arrived from a paralegal's real email address two days before a closing, and the money went to the wrong bank.

The document management system stalled the morning a brief was due, and three associates watched a progress bar.

A client sent a forty-question security questionnaire with the engagement letter, and nobody knew who owned the answers.

An associate's laptop was stolen from a car with matter files on it, and nobody could prove it was encrypted.

Ransomware locked the file server over a weekend, and the backup was on a drive in the same closet.

The current provider is friendly and slow, and every ticket waits behind someone else's.

What you get

Built around the three places a law firm loses a matter.

One accountable partner across all three, reported to the partners on one page a month. The tools are named once, here. The reason to call is the matter.

In the mailbox

Multi-factor authentication on every mailbox including staff and shared accounts, email protection against business email compromise, and training built from what lands in a law firm inbox: the changed wire instructions, the portal re-login, the court notice with a link.

Operate and Protect

On the deadline

Practice management, document management and time-and-billing platforms monitored and patched around court calendars and filing dates. Deadline-sensitive issues treated as priority incidents with a direct escalation path.

Operate and Recover

In the questionnaire

Encryption at rest and in transit, access controls by matter, secure remote access, audit trails and tested backups, documented so the firm answers client security questionnaires without a scramble, and retention and e-discovery support when evidence has to be produced.

Recover, Prove and Govern

Technology can be anxiety-producing, but they were so calm and matter of fact.

Stephanie Murphy

The Murphy Law Group

What a law firm noticed

Calm on the phone is what a deadline needs.

At a law firm the moment that matters is whether the person who answers understands that a filing is due at four, treats it that way, and explains what is happening in plain language. That is the standard we hold ourselves to, and the one to hold any provider to.

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Five questions

What the managing partner should be able to answer

If any answer is "we would have to check," that is the exposure.

Which mailboxes in the firm do not have multi-factor authentication today, including staff and shared accounts?
Have we told every client, in writing, that we will never change wire instructions by email alone, and is it in the engagement letter?
If the document system went down this morning, how long until attorneys are billing again, and when did we last prove it?
Which laptops hold matter files, and can we show each one was encrypted before it went missing?
Which AI tools are touching client documents, and who approved them?

Systems we keep running

ClioPracticePantherNetDocumentsTime MattersMicrosoft 365E-discovery and document platformsSecure remote accessWorkstations and serversEncrypted backupEmail protection

Where it fits, we also help firms put AI to work on intake, document review and drafting, with access controls by matter and the governance that keeps privileged material inside the firm.

Real results

From firms like yours

Multi-site

A 200-person, five-office company gets an embedded IT team

Co-managed support across multiple offices with $100K+ in annual cost avoidance.

Engineering

Engineering firm stops IT disruptions

Streamlined CAD file access, eliminated the downtime, and got the team back to design work.

Defense supply

Manufacturer passes its CMMC Level 2 assessment

Prepared with Stealth, this metal fabrication shop passed in July 2026 and secured a multi-year defense contract.

Questions law firms ask us

Straight answers

What are the biggest IT risks for a firm our size?

Business email compromise and wire fraud, ransomware locking matter files, lost devices with unencrypted client data, and weak vendor security in e-discovery and document platforms. All four have known controls, and the firm should be able to show each one is in place.

Do you support our practice management and document systems?

Yes. Clio, PracticePanther, NetDocuments and Time Matters, along with time-and-billing platforms, and we deal with those vendors directly, so no attorney spends an afternoon relaying error messages.

How do you handle confidentiality and ethics obligations?

We align with ABA guidance on competence and confidentiality: encryption at rest and in transit, multi-factor authentication, access controls by matter, secure remote access and audit trails, all documented so the firm can answer client security questionnaires.

What happens when something breaks before a filing deadline?

Deadline-sensitive issues are priority incidents with a direct escalation path, and maintenance is scheduled around court calendars and filing dates.

Can you help with retention and e-discovery?

Yes. We help set retention and archiving policies, secure email and file archives, and support the firm's litigation team or e-discovery vendor when matter data has to be collected and produced.

What does onboarding look like?

SmoothSwitch: discover, document, mirror, cut, delight. Zero unplanned downtime during the migration and a 14-day technical migration window, defined in writing in the agreement, scheduled around the firm's calendar.

Next step

Bring us the closest call the firm has had with a wire or a deadline.

Thirty minutes. We will tell you what it would have cost and whether we can stop the next one.

Book a 30-minute conversation Call (617) 903-5559

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