--- title: "Priivacy for Legal & Professional Services | USC Data" description: "Find every piece of privileged and sensitive content in your firm, map who has access, and clean it up. $12,000 60-day Starter Kit. 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No obligation. Priivacy for Legal & Professional Services # Your product is confidentiality. The data you hold proves it — or breaks it. Privileged client communications. M&A diligence binders. Working papers. Witness statements. Discovery production. Every law firm and accounting practice we walk into has years of this material spread across mailboxes, SharePoint sites, document management exports, and the laptops of partners who've since retired. A single misplaced file ends a 30-year client relationship. Priivacy finds every piece of sensitive and privileged content in your firm, maps who has access, and gives your team the controls to clean it up. $12,000 for a 60-day license. Full platform. Done on your infrastructure. [Register for a Demo](/contact) [Talk to a Specialist](/contact) Built by the Umlaut Solutions team — ten years of data governance work for regulated firms, including the major data programs that came out of Australia's Hayne Royal Commission. ISO 27001 certified. 10+ years Data governance and privacy remediation across regulated industries. Royal Commission veterans Senior team with deep experience on Australia's Hayne Royal Commission — the equivalent rigour of a US Senate investigation. AU. US. UK. NZ. Delivered across four jurisdictions with the same engine, the same playbook, and the same reporting standard. ## For firms whose entire value proposition is keeping client data confidential. ### Law firms Boutique, mid-tier, and full-service practices. ### In-house counsel teams Corporate legal departments at regulated firms. ### Accounting and audit firms Big-4-adjacent, mid-tier, and boutique practices with audit, tax, and advisory teams. ### Insolvency and forensic accounting Practices handling high-volume document discovery. ### M&A advisory Deal advisors holding diligence material across multiple transactions. What's common across every firm here: your work product is your client's most sensitive material, you're legally and ethically obligated to keep it that way, and the systems you actually store it in were chosen before "data sprawl" was a thing anyone worried about. ## The material you definitely have, even if you've never been asked. ### Privileged communications Email chains marked "Privileged & Confidential," draft advice memos, internal strategy threads. ### Client matter files Engagement letters, file notes, draft documents, correspondence stored on shared sites. ### M&A diligence binders Virtual Data Room exports, target company financials, sensitive personnel data from acquisitions. ### Witness statements and discovery Production sets from prior matters, deposition transcripts, document review work product. ### Working papers Audit working papers, tax planning documents, valuation models, all containing client-confidential data. ### Departed partner archives Mailboxes and OneDrives of partners who've retired or moved on, still holding active and historical matter content. Priivacy classifies privileged content explicitly (the document classifier recognises "Privileged and Confidential" headers, engagement letter formats, working paper templates) so findings respect the work-product line. Findings are remediated inside your environment — no privileged material is sent to an external AI service for classification. ## Built for the obligations that matter to a legal practice. ### Professional Conduct Rules - • US: ABA Model Rule 1.6 (Confidentiality of Information) - • UK: SRA Code of Conduct (Confidentiality, Section 6.3) - • AU: Legal Profession Uniform Law / Solicitors' Conduct Rules - • Accounting: AICPA Code of Conduct (Confidentiality), APES 110 (AU) ### Privacy Regulation - • GDPR / UK GDPR (lawyers and accountants as data controllers AND processors) - • CCPA / CPRA + US state privacy laws - • AU Privacy Act / APP 11 - • Notifiable Data Breaches schemes ### Sector-Specific - • Trust account regulations (US state bar trust account rules, AU statutory trust audits) - • AML/CTF reporting obligations (legal practices in scope under AU/UK rules) - • Court-imposed protective orders on discovery material ## The legal industry's three converging pressures. ### Cyber attacks targeting law firms Law firms have become a top-three target for ransomware groups in 2024–2025. Threat actors specifically target M&A files, sensitive client matters, and discovery production sets for double-extortion. A single high-profile breach has ended boutique firms. Cyber insurance underwriters are scrutinising data governance with the same rigour they apply to financial services. ### AI in legal workflows Every law firm and accounting practice is piloting Copilot, Harvey, Legora, or in-house AI tools. Each one is only as safe as the data it can read. If your AI assistant has access to a shared folder containing privileged M&A diligence material, you've created a privilege risk you didn't have before — and it's not waived by accident in a way the courts will forgive. ### DSAR and disclosure obligations are growing Subject access requests from former clients, opposing parties, and regulators are running 30–50% higher than five years ago across legal practices. Each one creates a 30-day clock you can't meet without a defensible data map of what your firm holds about that person. ## Transparent pricing. Legal-ready from day one. Start $12,000 60-day full-platform license Install, scan, classify, and produce the five built-in reports against your environment. Extend $5,000/mo Month-to-month after the Starter Kit Keep the platform running with ongoing scans, new connectors, and refreshed reports. Upgrade $18,000 Convert to a 12-month license Lock in annual pricing once you've proven the value internally. Optional Help $5K–$20K Scoped advisory and remediation Bring in the Umlaut Solutions team for remediation runs, workshop support, or regulator-facing artefacts. Pricing applies to firms with up to 1,000 active users. Larger firms, multi-jurisdiction practices, and matter-centric DMS environments scoped on the first call. ## Want a walk-through with your managing partner or COO? Forty-five minutes. Bring your IT lead, your COO or managing partner, and your conflicts or compliance counsel. We'll walk you through Priivacy installed against a sample legal practice environment and show you the five reports a real engagement produces. [Register for a Demo](/contact) Email [connect@uscdata.com](mailto:connect@uscdata.com) | Call [+1 844 988 1444](tel:+18449881444) (US) or [+61 1300 80 95 80](tel:+611300809580) (AU) ![USC Data — Unified. Secured. Connected.](/assets/usc-data-logo-white-tagline-zlFrNz8X.png) USC Data helps growing and regulated organizations clean, govern, and restructure business data so AI, analytics and automation finally work — while hidden compliance risk disappears. 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