Cybersecurity was one of the legal industry’s top concerns in 2023. Aside from generative AI—which has its own cybersecurity issues—stories of increasingly frequent cyber attacks on law firms and legal tech companies drew a lot of attention from LTN readers. Ransomware groups like LockBit, CLOP and BlackCat/ALPHV ramped up their attacks and honed their hacking strategies last year, and there’s no reason to think that they’ll slow down or stop upping their sophistication in 2024.

The following is a collection of predictions from experts in the legal industry on what we can expect in the cybersecurity arena in 2024.