AKJ Associates Securing The Law Firm 2025 | AKJ Associates Ltd | 21 January 2025 | Park Plaza Victoria, 239 Vauxhall Bridge Rd, Pimlico, London SW1V 1EQ, UK

Bearing out these comments, a recent survey showed that the number of successful cyber-attacks against UK law firms rose by 77% in the past year to 954, up from 538 the year before, according to a new study of the threat.

Ransomware actors in particular see law firms as easy meat and have targeted the sector.

At the same time, law firms continue to invest heavily in new technology to lower costs and improve productivity. This investment, which includes big investments in Cloud and AI, expands the attack surface available to hackers and increases vulnerability.

And all of this needs to be secured just as the current economic and geopolitical turbulence is making law firms an even more attractive target to traditional and nation-state attackers.
So:
• How are legal cybersecurity professionals coping with the expansion of the attack surface via new tech and outsourcing
• How are they ensuring third-party security?
• How are they building in resilience against Cloud outages that can affect all elements of their business processes and even their SaaS cybersecurity vendors?
• How are they dealing with the continuing threat to their businesses posed by ransomware?
• And how are they progressing with the core cyber hygiene we all struggle with around hybrid working, email security, ransomware, patching and IDAM?
• This January, join security leaders from across the UK’s legal sector to discover their priorities, concerns and the actions they are taking to defend themselves against continued attack. And learn what they really think about AI.

2025 Speakers

Nick Emmerson
President, Law Society of England and Wales

2025 Sponsors

STRATEGIC SPONSORS:
• Bytes
• Certes
• Nomios
• Proofpoint
• ThreatLocker
• Quorum Cyber

EDUCATION SPONSORS:
• Conversant Group
• Exponential
• Fortem
• Wavenet