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ISO 27001 | Cyber Essentials Plus | Microsoft Partner

IT, cybersecurity and AI for UK law firms.

Managed IT support and cyber security for solicitors across Hertfordshire, Essex, Cambridgeshire and London — plus Microsoft 365, practical AI and telephony. Trusted by firms from 5 to 150 fee-earners.

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Trusted by professional firms
Genmar supports our 80-user property team with rapid response times. Unlike other IT companies, they're easy to contact and quick to act. Highly recommended.
Stephen ThompsonDirector, Thomas Morris (Property)
ISO 27001 Information Security Management - UKAS CertifiedCyber Essentials Plus Certified
MicrosoftSolutions Partner
4.9
50+ Google reviews
By the numbers

Built for the demands of legal practice

We understand compliance isn't optional. Our security, processes and tooling map directly to the frameworks your COLP and COFA already worry about.

Genmar IT project team planning IT infrastructure deployment
30
Years experience (since 1996)
ISO 27001
Certified
80+
UK clients
24/7
Monitoring

Why this matters now

Cyber risk is now the number one concern for UK law firms: in PwC's Annual Law Firms' Survey 2024, around 77% of the top 100 firms reported phishing attacks, and the large majority of firms have experienced a breach or outage. This isn't just an IT problem — it's a partner-level risk that affects your PI insurance, your SRA compliance, and your clients' trust.

The SRA's Risk Outlook makes it clear that cyber is now a governance issue, not a technical one. The ICO has fined firms including Tuckers (£98k) and DPP Law (£60k) for data breaches. The reputational damage goes far beyond the fine.

Most generalist MSPs don't know what a TR1 looks like, can't explain Lexcel Section 7, and have never integrated a phone system with a case management system. We do all three, and we've been doing it for firms across Hertfordshire, Essex, Cambridgeshire and London for nearly three decades.

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Our Services

What we do for law firms

Five services, delivered by people who understand legal IT.

A named account manager

Managed IT support

UK-based helpdesk, on-site when you need it. Halo PSA ticketing so you can see exactly what's being worked on.

  • Named account manager
  • UK-based helpdesk
  • On-site support available
  • Full visibility via Halo PSA

Mapped to SRA expectations

Cybersecurity

Petra ITDR, Huntress EDR, phishing awareness training, dark web monitoring, incident response. Cyber Essentials Plus certified.

  • Petra ITDR & Huntress EDR
  • Phishing training
  • Dark web monitoring
  • Incident response

Done properly

Microsoft 365 & Copilot

Licensing, migration, security hardening, and practical Copilot rollouts for partners and fee-earners. With proper data governance.

  • Licensing & migration
  • Security hardening
  • Copilot rollouts
  • Data governance first

Practical projects

AI & automation consultancy

Document review, intake automation, matter summarisation, conveyancing chase-up. Day-rate consultancy or fixed-scope projects.

  • Document review
  • Intake automation
  • Matter summarisation
  • Fixed-scope projects

Compliance-grade

Wildix telephony

Call recording, integration with LEAP, Actionstep, Clio, Proclaim and others. Works on desktop, mobile and softphone. No copper lines.

  • Compliance call recording
  • PMS integrations
  • Desktop, mobile & softphone
  • No copper lines

Built for the way the SRA expects you to operate.

Our security, processes and tooling map directly to the frameworks your COLP and COFA already worry about.

  • SRA Standards & Regulations (Principle 7, paras 2.1a, 2.5, 3.1, 5.2)
  • Lexcel Section 7
  • NCSC legal-sector guidance
  • Cyber Essentials Plus
  • ISO 27001 Annex A controls
  • UK GDPR Article 32
  • Money Laundering Regulations 2017

We speak your stack.

LEAPActionstepClioProclaimOspreySOS ConnectiManageNetDocumentsBigHandDocsCorp
Testimonials

What clients say about us

We're new to publishing law-firm references, so here's what professional, client-confidential firms across our patch say about working with us.

100 usersProfessional Services

Genmar streamlined our permissions structure across our 100-user team. Onboarding now takes minutes instead of hours, and offboarding is completely automated.

Outcome:Automated onboarding & offboarding
Leanne Holt
Chief Operating Officer, CMP Solutions
85 usersProperty

Since switching to Genmar, our 85-user team has seen dramatically faster response times. They're proactive — suggesting solutions before problems become critical.

Outcome:Faster response times
Jo Woolley
Operations & Marketing Manager, Jones Robinson
80 usersProperty

Genmar supports our 80-user property team with rapid response times. Unlike other IT companies, they're easy to contact and quick to act. Highly recommended.

Outcome:Responsive support
Stephen Thompson
Director, Thomas Morris
Proven Results

Proven outcomes for professional firms

The compliance, security and Microsoft 365 work behind these results is exactly what we do for law firms.

Frequently asked questions

We operate a 30-minute response SLA on P1 (priority one) incidents during business hours, which means a UK-based engineer starts working your ticket within half an hour rather than simply acknowledging it. A case management outage that stops fee-earners billing, filing or accessing matters is almost always treated as P1. Out-of-hours and weekend cover is available as an add-on for firms running evening or Saturday clinics. Every ticket is logged in Halo PSA, so your COLP or practice manager can see response times, who is working the issue, and the full resolution trail. Because we hold the vendor relationships for systems like LEAP, Clio and Actionstep, we can escalate directly rather than leaving you to chase a third party.

Both. We run general managed IT, but we have hands-on experience with the practice management and document systems law firms actually use: LEAP, Actionstep, Clio, Proclaim, Osprey, SOS Connect, iManage and NetDocuments. We are not a reseller or implementation partner for any of them, so we have no incentive to push you toward a particular platform — our job is to keep whatever you run stable, secure and integrated with your email, telephony and Microsoft 365 environment. We have migrated firms between systems, connected case management to Wildix call recording, and resolved the matter-numbering and document-profiling quirks that generalist MSPs typically don't recognise. If we genuinely haven't worked with your specific system, we'll tell you honestly before you sign anything.

Yes. Lexcel Section 7 (information management and security) maps almost directly onto how we already configure and document client environments: access controls, backup and recovery, business continuity, supplier management and information security policies. For firms going through assessment or reaccreditation we provide the evidence pack your assessor expects — asset registers, patch and antivirus reporting, MFA enforcement records, backup test logs and an information security policy aligned to ISO 27001. Lexcel sits alongside the SRA's wider expectations on technology and competence, so the same controls also support your COLP's compliance plan. We won't certify you ourselves, because Lexcel assessment is carried out by the Law Society's assessors, but we make sure the underlying IT evidence is in place and defensible.

Sources: SRA Risk resources

Yes, if it's configured correctly — and configuration is where most firms get it wrong. Copilot respects the existing permissions in your Microsoft 365 tenant, so if files and mailboxes are over-shared, Copilot will happily surface privileged content to the wrong people. We do the data governance work first: auditing sharing, tightening permissions, applying sensitivity labels and retention, and disabling risky defaults. Only then do we roll Copilot out to partners and fee-earners with guidance on what is and isn't appropriate for client matters. We've done this for firms ranging from five to over a hundred fee-earners, and we align the controls with NCSC guidance on cloud and data security so your COLP can evidence the decision.

Sources: NCSC small organisations guide

Wildix records calls natively, stores them encrypted, and lets you retain and retrieve recordings by matter, user, extension or team. That matters for firms that need to evidence client instructions, comply with regulatory expectations, or resolve a complaint or disciplinary issue. Recording can be configured per-user and per-extension, so client-facing fee-earners are covered while, for example, internal HR lines are not. Because Wildix integrates with case management systems including LEAP, Actionstep, Clio and Proclaim, calls can be associated with the right matter automatically, and click-to-dial works from within the file. It runs on desktop, mobile and softphone over the internet, so there are no copper lines to decommission ahead of the 2027 PSTN switch-off.

Guides for law firms

In-depth guides on the legal IT questions we get asked most — cyber security, Microsoft Copilot, SRA compliance and more.

About Genmar

Genmar is a 25-person managed IT provider based in Bishop's Stortford. We've been running since 1996. We look after around 80 clients across Hertfordshire, Essex, Cambridgeshire and London. We're ISO 27001 certified, Cyber Essentials Plus, and a Microsoft Partner.

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