Two London law firms must pay £815 each after the Information Commissioner sued them for not fulfilling their duties under the Data Protection Act. The two firms had failed to register themselves as processors of personal information.  You can read more about this here:

The sensitive nature of the work carried out by many solicitors means that compared to other professionals there is arguably greater reason for solicitors to take care when dealing with personal data. In turn this also means that the consequences of failure to comply could be more severe.  A good article on how solicitors and law firms should consider the data protection act is discussed here:

The law society has issued some guidence on  data protection a copy of which can be found here:

The law society has issued some guidence on  Information security a copy of which can be found here:

good documentation, and GBData can help with maintaining your standards.  When using our service all of your data  is encrypted to 256Bit before leaving the safety of your own PC’s.  Put into perspective, Banks only use 128Bit.  Further information on our data security can be downloaded here:

When you use GBData to protect your computer data, on those laptops, PC’s ans servers, you can be sure of complying with all aspects of hte law.