We left a large firm and have none of the IT we were used to. Where do we start?

With what the practice actually needs rather than with what the old firm had. Most of the value is in a few things done properly — document versioning, archived email, backups that are tested — and those are affordable at boutique scale. The rest can wait.

Our clients send security questionnaires. Can you help us answer them?

Yes, and it is one of the most common reasons Manhattan firms contact us. Usually the work is less about buying anything and more about making the true answers available in writing before the next one arrives.

Do you have an office in Manhattan?

We have a New York mailing address, but we do not run a walk-in office. Our New York team works from home offices across the metro area and on site with clients, so Manhattan is territory we cover in person.

Serving the New York metro area

Managed IT Services for Law Firms in Manhattan

DP3 Technologies supports Manhattan law firms with disciplined managed IT and vCIO advisory, delivered by our New York team, who work from home offices across the metro area and on site with clients. Manhattan practices are scrutinised by their clients more closely than most, and the systems behind them have to stand up to that.

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The First Judicial District and the Commercial Division

New York County sits in the First Judicial District, and the Supreme Court's Civil Branch there hosts the Commercial Division, established in 1995 to hear business disputes: breach of contract, business torts, partnership and corporate governance disputes, shareholder derivative actions, commercial insurance and commercial financing matters.

That concentration shapes a great deal of Manhattan practice. Commercial Division matters run on heavy document volumes, tight briefing schedules and opposing counsel who will notice anything late. The technology question is unglamorous and constant: can the firm produce the right version of the right document, under deadline, from wherever the attorney is working.

What we see in Manhattan practices

A large share of the Manhattan firms we talk to are boutiques of five to fifty attorneys, often founded by people who spent years at much larger firms. They do substantially the same work they did before, for substantially the same clients, with one difference that matters enormously: there is no longer an IT department down the corridor.

That transition is the single most common reason a Manhattan firm calls us. The expectations the attorneys carry with them — that documents are versioned, that email is archived, that someone is watching the backups — were previously met by infrastructure they never had to think about. Rebuilding that at firm scale, without the budget of a thousand-attorney practice, is a specific problem and it is one we spend a lot of time on.

Alongside it sits financial services, real estate, media and intellectual property work, and a meaningful amount of cross-border matter handling, each of which brings its own data-handling obligations.

Where we spend our time with Manhattan firms

Rebuilding what a large firm gave you

Versioning, archiving, monitored backups and tested restores, specified for a boutique's budget rather than inherited from a thousand-attorney practice.

Standing answers for client risk reviews

The questionnaires are predictable. We keep the answers accurate and current so responding is retrieval rather than research.

Document discipline under deadline

Commercial Division work does not forgive a lost version. Storage, naming and access are configured so the right document is findable at eleven at night.

Clients who audit their law firm

Manhattan firms act for banks, insurers, funds and corporates with formal third-party risk programmes. For those clients, sending a security questionnaire to outside counsel is routine, and the questions have become specific: where is client data held, who has administrative access, how is it encrypted, what is the retention period, when was the last restore tested.

A firm that cannot answer those quickly does not usually lose the client outright. It loses time, and it loses a little credibility each round. The work we do most often in Manhattan is making those answers true, written down and current, so that a questionnaire is a morning's work for an office manager rather than a fortnight of chasing.

Common questions

We left a large firm and have none of the IT we were used to. Where do we start?: With what the practice actually needs rather than with what the old firm had. Most of the value is in a few things done properly — document versioning, archived email, backups that are tested — and those are affordable at boutique scale. The rest can wait.
Our clients send security questionnaires. Can you help us answer them?: Yes, and it is one of the most common reasons Manhattan firms contact us. Usually the work is less about buying anything and more about making the true answers available in writing before the next one arrives.
Do you have an office in Manhattan?: We have a New York mailing address, but we do not run a walk-in office. Our New York team works from home offices across the metro area and on site with clients, so Manhattan is territory we cover in person.

Talk to us about your Manhattan practice

A short conversation about how your firm actually works, and whether what you have in place supports it. No obligation and no sales script.