How to Mitigate Risk When Handing Data to Outside Law Firms

Ever since the cybersecurity firm Mandiant reported in 2013 that 80 percent of the country’s largest law firms have been hacked, numerous surveys have shown that client pressure is causing the largest firms to spend millions encrypting communications, protecting mobile devices and beefing up security.

But what happens during eDiscovery, when a client’s most sensitive information must be disclosed by court order to another law firm, which may or may not be as vigilant about cybersecurity?

“eDiscovery is [really] fraught with a fair amount of risk,” said Aaron Crews, senior associate general counsel and head of eDiscovery at Walmart.

Crews ...