Legal Cybersecurity Solutions for Law Firms and Legal Teams
From solo practitioners to AmLaw 100 firms, legal teams need security that works the way they do — across email, file sharing, and outside counsel collaboration. Virtru delivers data-layer protection that integrates with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, with no client software required for recipients.
Virtru Email Encryption encrypts messages and attachments client-side, before they leave the sender's device. Messages remain protected in transit, at rest, and in recipients' inboxes — even when forwarded. Attorneys activate encryption with a single toggle inside Outlook or Gmail. No certificate management, no S/MIME setup, no recipient enrollment required. This is what email encryption for lawyers should look like: Invisible to the user, and persistently tied to the data everywhere it travels.
The ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility has long affirmed that competent representation requires reasonable safeguards for client information. Sending unencrypted emails containing tax IDs, financial records, or settlement terms falls below that standard of care — and many state bars now mirror this language in their own ethics opinions. Virtru applies encryption with attribute-based access control (ABAC), so only authorized recipients can decrypt content, and access can be revoked at any moment.
Virtru Secure Share enables attorneys, paralegals, and clients to exchange privileged files of any size through browser-based, encrypted links. Clients upload documents through a personalized intake page; co-counsel access shared workspaces from any device. Files are encrypted client-side using 256-bit AES, with FIPS 140-2 validated cryptography, and remain protected throughout their lifecycle. Secure file sharing for law firms shouldn't require new portals, software installs, or workflow workarounds — and with Virtru, it doesn't.
Built on the Trusted Data Format (TDF), the open industry standard for persistent data protection, Virtru wraps every file in a cryptographic envelope that enforces its own access policy. Set expiration dates, disable forwarding, watermark documents, or revoke access entirely — even for files already in a recipient's inbox or downloaded to a counterparty's device. This is policy portability: protection that travels with the data, not with the network.
Through the Virtru Control Center, legal IT and security teams gain a complete audit log of who accessed each protected document, when, from where, and for how long. Revoke access to a single file, an entire deal room, or all documents shared with a former employee — instantly. This audit visibility is essential for privilege logs, litigation hold defensibility, and post-engagement file disposition.
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Legal Cybersecurity Compliance for Every Practice Area
Law firms handle data subject to overlapping regulatory frameworks. Virtru supports legal cybersecurity compliance across the full spectrum of practice areas — without forcing your firm to deploy a different tool for each requirement.
Attorney-Client Privilege and ABA Standard of Care
Encryption is no longer optional for privileged communications. Virtru protects email content and attachments with E2E object-level encryption, ensuring that privileged information remains confidential even if a recipient's inbox is compromised. Granular policy controls help firms demonstrate the reasonable safeguards aligned with ABA Formal Opinion 477R and corresponding state bar guidance. For matters that demand the strongest assurances, Virtru Private Keystore lets your firm hold the encryption keys itself — preserving privilege even against subpoena risk to cloud providers.
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CJIS Compliance for State and Local Legal Teams
District attorneys, public defenders, and state legal teams handling criminal justice information face strict requirements under the FBI's CJIS Security Policy. Virtru aligns with the CJIS Security Policy by encrypting CJI in transit and at rest, supporting advanced authentication, and providing the auditing controls needed for inbound and outbound communication. Pair Virtru email, file sharing, and collaboration solutions with Virtru Private Keystore to maintain full encryption key sovereignty for the most sensitive caseloads.
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HIPAA Compliance for Healthcare-Adjacent Practices
Medical malpractice, personal injury, and healthcare M&A practices regularly handle protected health information (PHI). Virtru offers a standard Business Associate Agreement (BAA) and provides the technical safeguards — encryption, access controls, and audit logging — that support your firm's HIPAA compliance program. Whether you're sending records to expert witnesses, exchanging documents with co-counsel, or managing client intake, Virtru ensures PHI remains encrypted across every step of the matter.
TILA-RESPA, GLBA, and Real Estate Practice Compliance
Firms handling residential real estate closings, mortgage transactions, and consumer finance must protect non-public personal information under the FTC Safeguards Rule (GLBA) and TILA-RESPA. Virtru's automated policy enforcement detects sensitive data patterns — Social Security numbers, account numbers, settlement details — and applies encryption automatically through the Virtru Data Protection Gateway. The result: nothing leaves your firm unprotected, even when an attorney or paralegal forgets to apply encryption manually.
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Virtru for Mergers, Acquisitions, and Complex Litigation
M&A transactions and high-stakes litigation create concentrated exposure: deal terms, board materials, deposition transcripts, and expert reports all flow between firms, opposing counsel, financial advisors, and regulators. Traditional secure data rooms force everyone onto a single platform; Virtru lets you protect documents wherever they need to go.
With Virtru, deal teams and litigation teams can:
- Set time-bound access on draft agreements that expire automatically when a deal closes or terminates
- Revoke counterparty access instantly if negotiations break down or an engagement ends
- Track which outside counsel, banker, or board member has reviewed each version
- Maintain encryption key sovereignty so neither Microsoft, Google, nor Virtru can decrypt deal data
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