Business continuity planning for law firms is crucial as most companies never recover after a disaster. Disruptive incidents can stall the inflow of revenue and legal establishments can even lose out on valuable clients if the damage is severe. In the past, many law firms haven’t been able to restore operations even after six months of an incident. With Stay in Business, you can stay prepared for any emergency situation, including less critical incidents such as computer glitches and minor floods.
Stay in Business is a one of a kind, cloud based BCMS solution that eliminates information loss, ensures application availability and protects your infrastructure. Regardless of the scale of operations that your law firm handles, Stay in Business can ensure that your business smoothly transitions any disruption.
Stay in Business can develop an exhaustive business continuity plan for law firms that protects data, connectivity and other assets such as phones and critical systems. Now your legal establishment’s business continuity plan can avoid critical situations, such as:
- Missed court appearances
- Loss of revenue on an hourly or daily basis
- Permanent loss of highly critical information
- Losing clients to competitors and so on
- Many of these incidents imply hefty penalties, not to mention reputational damage.
Business Continuity Planning for Law Firms
In addition to creating business continuity and disaster recovery plans that protect your revenue generating operations, you can design strategies for ensuring the health and safety of your employees as well.
With our comprehensive business impact analysis (BIA) module, you can design comprehensive law firm business continuity plans that take into consideration all the risks to your business. Your BCDR plans can then be tested across different possible scenarios through simulation exercises. Stay in Business makes planning business continuity for law firms easy by segregating the entire solution into specific components, such as:
- Business processes – Your organization’s daily tasks and activities
- Responders – The executives responsible for deploying the plan
- Alternate Responders – Who will take over when the primary employee option is not available
- Contacts – A comprehensive database of all individuals, teams and groups involved in your business
- Headcounts – Keeping track of all staff members during emergency operations such as evacuations
- Communication – Channels for sharing information
- Data Security – Protecting and accessing critical information during and after a crisis
- Alternate Sites – Requirements for shifting business processes to a backup site
Business continuity planning for law firms with SIB includes key procedures such as Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and Risk Assessment. Data protection is a mission critical objective while developing business continuity plans for law firms. Stay in Business lets you gain an in-depth understanding of how your company manages its data (procedures for storing, retrieving and securing data) and create plans accordingly.
You can create data protection strategies that can be evaluated based on parameters such as recovery speed and comprehensiveness of protection.
Conclusion
Business continuity planning for legal firms can seem like a tricky proposition, given the confidentiality of data and highly critical client requirements. But with Stay in Business, you can be rest assured of a thoroughly prepared solution that squarely addresses all possible risk factors and guarantees continuity of operations.
