Business Continuity Planning for Law Firms - Preparing for What Actually Disrupts You

Introduction

Traditional business continuity planning often focuses on physical risks such as fire, flood or loss of premises. However, real disruption to legal services more commonly arises from cyber incidents, loss of key personnel, system failures or operational dependency on specific roles.

Regulatory reviews increasingly expect firms not only to maintain a written continuity plan but to demonstrate that critical functions can genuinely continue during disruption.

In this new virtual classroom seminar, Tracy Thompson will explore how law firms can move beyond theoretical continuity planning and instead develop realistic operational resilience focused on the functions that genuinely sustain client service.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive session will cover the following:

• Why traditional business continuity plans often fail when tested in practice
• Identifying the people, systems, suppliers and processes critical to your firm
• Planning for cyber incidents, technology failures and loss of system access
• Managing the absence or loss of key personnel
• Maintaining essential regulatory roles and client services during disruption
• Assessing third-party and supplier dependencies
• Testing, reviewing and improving your business continuity arrangements
• Recording exercises and outcomes to provide evidence of operational resilience

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.