Anyone unsure about the importance of IT security in law firms would have been persuaded otherwise by a panel discussion titled “Believe It or Not, You’ve Been Hacked,” which drew a standing-room-only crowd of about 150 at the International Legal Technology Association’s annual conference in National Harbor, Md., recently.
“Increasingly we’re seeing our clients with more and more security questions. … We have to take a stand that we demand secure software,” said panelist Jim Fortmuller, security manager at Kelley Drye & Warren.
