Managed IT and cybersecurity for Maryland law firms.
EDG.tech runs IT and security for law firms across Gaithersburg, Rockville, Bethesda, Germantown, Washington, DC, and Frederick: helpdesk, patching, email protection, encrypted backup of matter files, and a 24/7 security operations center on one flat plan. EDG.tech Complete is $100 per user per month; Essentials is $45 per device per month for firms starting out.
Who this is for
For firms of about 3 to 60 people in Maryland and DC that have no in-house IT, or one overloaded person doing it on the side. If your firm has an IT department, or needs litigation-support hosting and e-discovery processing at scale, we are the wrong size and will say so on the first call.
What is at stake for a law firm?
Breaches are common. Plans are not.
In the American Bar Association's 2023 Cybersecurity TechReport, 29% of responding lawyers said their firm had experienced a security breach, and only 34% said their firm had an incident response plan. A firm that cannot say what happens in the first hour after a compromise is the firm that pays for it.
Wire fraud aims at settlements and trust accounts
The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center logged 24,768 business email compromise complaints and $3.05 billion in losses in 2025. Closings and settlement disbursements are a favorite target because the email that changes the wiring instructions looks like it came from the other side's office.
A breach is an ethics event as well as an IT event
Maryland's Personal Information Protection Act requires notice to affected individuals within 45 days of discovering a breach, and ABA Formal Opinion 483 says a lawyer must tell current clients when a breach involves their information. The clock starts whether or not your IT provider has a plan.
Source: Maryland Attorney General: PIPA guidelines for businesses
What do Maryland's rules ask of a law firm?
Maryland Rule 19-301.6 requires reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized access to client information, and the competence rule (19-301.1) expects lawyers to understand the technology they use. ABA Formal Opinion 477R covers securing client communications; Opinion 483 covers what you owe clients after a breach. Maryland's Personal Information Protection Act adds reasonable security procedures and a 45-day notice deadline. On top of the rules, your malpractice and cyber-insurance carriers now ask for multi-factor authentication, endpoint detection, tested backups, and staff training before they quote. EDG.tech builds those controls into the plan and gives you the written policy, device inventory, and incident response plan to show for it. We are not a law firm and do not give legal advice; we make the technical side of these duties true.
How does EDG.tech serve law firms?
Matter files that stay confidential and recoverable
Documents and email are encrypted on every device, access follows the matter and the role, and backups are versioned and restore-tested so a deleted or encrypted file comes back as it was. Retention is set in advance, so a litigation hold is a setting you turn on.
Settlement and wire-instruction protection
Email authentication that stops spoofed messages from the other side, impersonation detection on anything that mentions wiring or payoff, multi-factor authentication on the accounts that touch trust funds, and a verbal-callback policy we write with you and train your staff to follow without exception.
Court deadlines do not wait for a ticket queue
Same-day helpdesk with remote fix, loaner laptops when a machine dies before a filing, secure remote access for attorneys working from the courthouse or home, and e-filing and legal applications kept patched and compatible with the court systems you file in.
Ethics-ready documentation
A written information security policy, a device and data inventory, an incident response plan with the 45-day Maryland clock built in, a client-notification template that tracks Opinion 483, and training records, in the form your bar obligations and malpractice carrier expect.
Which plan fits a law firm?
Enterprise-grade managed IT & cybersecurity, fully managed, 24/7.
See EDG.tech CompleteMost firms belong on Complete. A firm's exposure lives on every attorney's and paralegal's laptop, phone, and mailbox, and Complete's per-user pricing covers each person's devices and accounts together, with the 24/7 security operations center that notices a compromised login at 2 AM. Essentials fits a solo or two-attorney office that wants managed devices and core protection first.
EDG.tech Essentials is $45 per device per month. Compare both plans
"Every attorney I work with knows the confidentiality rule by heart. Our job is making it true on the laptop, the phone, and the inbox, every day, without them thinking about it," says Duane Epperly, founder of EDG.tech.
“EDG.tech built two websites for my law practice and manages our cybersecurity. They understand that for attorneys, client confidentiality is non-negotiable. Professional, responsive, and they explain everything in plain English. Highly recommended.”
Law firm IT questions, answered
What does managed IT cost for a small law firm in Maryland?
EDG.tech Complete is $100 per user per month and includes helpdesk, patching, email and endpoint protection, backup, and 24/7 security monitoring. A ten-person firm pays $1,000 per month. EDG.tech Essentials is $45 per device per month for firms that want managed devices and core protection first. Add-ons such as compliance projects are quoted per client environment.
Do you work with our practice management and document management software?
Yes. We support whichever case management, document management, time and billing, and e-filing tools your firm already uses. We manage the logins, multi-factor authentication, backups, updates, and migrations around them. We do not resell software, so our advice on what to keep or replace is only advice.
Can you help us meet Maryland's confidentiality and competence rules?
We make the technical side true: encryption, multi-factor authentication, tested backups, staff training, and a written security policy, with a device inventory and an incident response plan you can show your bar or carrier. We are not a law firm and do not give legal advice on what the rules require of you.
What happens if our firm is hit by ransomware?
The security operations center isolates the affected device within minutes, we restore files from versioned backups instead of paying, and we run the notification plan with you: who was affected, the 45-day Maryland deadline, and the client notice ABA Formal Opinion 483 calls for. Firms on Complete have all of this in place before anything happens.
Can attorneys work securely from the courthouse or from home?
Yes. Attorneys get secure remote access to the firm's systems from a laptop or phone, with multi-factor authentication and device encryption, so a lost laptop at the courthouse is an inconvenience and a phone call, and stays below the line of a reportable breach. We set up new attorneys and staff in a day and remove access the same day someone leaves.
Sources
- ABA 2023 Cybersecurity TechReport
- FBI IC3 2025 Internet Crime Report (PDF)
- Maryland Attorney General: PIPA guidelines for businesses
- Md. Code, Com. Law § 14-3504 (breach notice, 45 days)
- ABA Formal Opinion 483 (2018): obligations after a data breach
- ABA Formal Opinion 477R (2017): securing client communications
- ABA Model Rule 1.6(c), adopted in Maryland as Rule 19-301.6
- Maryland Rules (Maryland Judiciary), Title 19 Attorneys
Last reviewed: October 10, 2026
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