In July 2023, the legal community learned that three AmLaw 50 law firms have fallen victim to ransomware group Clop, resulting in major data breaches. In November, a Magic Circle firm got attacked by LockBit, another ransomware group. Smaller firms are getting compromised in even larger numbers. 2023 has become the year of class-action suits against law firms because of data breaches.

In a world where everything is connected and accessible online, and where law firms sit on terabytes of valuable client data, bullet-proof cybersecurity is a sine qua non. But in reality most law firms’ cyber defense has more holes than a Swiss cheese. Don’t let your data end up on the Darknet. Join cybersec-savvy lawyer Przemysław Barchan and cybersecurity expert Alexander Sverdlov on January 16, 2024, at 11 am CET for an interesting conversation about cybersecurity for lawyers and actionable advice that every law firm can use to make it’s shields almost impenetrable. Remember – in cybersecurity and in bear hunting you don’t have to outrun the attacker, you just have to outrun the person next to you.

About the speakers:

Przemysław Barchan is the founder and managing partner at Barchan Legal, an IT & New Technologies law firm, ELTA ambassador for Poland and Director of the Institute of LegalTech at the Polish Supreme Bar Council.

Alexander Sverdlov is a cyber and information security expert at IT Security Company – Atlant Security, a consulting company that provides a wide range of services from cloud security architecture to internal infrastructure security hardening, security assessment and security awareness training.