Multiple scenarios drive the need for law firms to closely manage access to internal information. In many instances, significant revenue opportunities depend on the firm's ability to demonstrate such control. These include conflicts-driven ethical walls, client confidentiality requirements, management concerns about the scope of access available to contract attorneys and external regulations.
Traditionally, firms set up ethical walls by distributing memoranda and relying on the professional diligence of attorneys and staff. In response to specific client confidentiality requirements, firms may also implement access limitations within their document management library or set up separate repositories for restricted matters.
Unfortunately, these traditional approaches are incomplete as they fail to limit access across all repositories where sensitive information resides and rely on manual monitoring and intervention to ensure that restrictions are enforced and kept up to date.
Today, clients are expecting, courts are taking notice of, and firms are increasingly adopting more stringent practices. These include automating the creation of walls, monitoring staff behavior in real time to ensure proper wall enforcement, and extending walls across all repositories where sensitive information is stored.
Wall Builder from IntApp replaces distributed, ad hoc approaches to information security with a centralized solution that provides law firms with unprecedented capability and control. It's the only product that delivers real-time enforcement while automatically updating access rights in response to staff behavior to ensure wall maintenance and firm compliance.
It's also the only application that extends protection beyond document management libraries, locking down other key repositories where sensitive information is stored including records management, accounting, CRM, search and other applications.
Wall Builder's comprehensive logging capabilities provide a straightforward way for firms to demonstrate compliance if required to do so by the court, clients or government agencies.
Wall Builder has been adopted and endorsed by top-ranked AmLaw firms for its unmatched capability and ease of use.
A survey conducted by Thomson Elite found that more than half of firms with walls technology in place only secure documents in the DM, not additional systems and that 80% of firms are dependent on manual intervention to keep walls up to date in response to timekeeper activity.
"We evaluated several options and Wall Builder was the clear choice -- it has been embraced as a standard by our industry peers, who are using it to secure over 150 million documents globally, and it's the only product that integrates with key firm applications including our document management and records management systems."
-- Director of Loss Prevention, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
