You steered clear of email security systems until now. But now you need to act.

 
​Yes, you understood your duties under Rule 2.03 of the Ontario Rules of Professional Conduct, and ss. 5.7 of the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Practice Management Guidelines, mandating encrypted email in appropriate cases. (Other Law Societies have similar rules.)  You steered clear because you respected the solicitor-client relationship too much to burden clients with confusion they never asked for — confusion that is inherent in most legacy encryption systems. But now that law firms are being targeted in cyber attacks, you know you need to act. The QuckLock™ Secure Email Solution lets you express your care for the client’s interests in four important ways: 
  1. clients always receive fully readable emails, right in their desktop in-baskets, without being dragged to the Web each time an encrypted email arrives.
  2. clients retain their right to accept encrypted email or to carry on as before, without you having to do a thing. In every case, your client is always greeted with an instantly readable email.
  3. clients opting for encryption receive free, fully-functional encryption rights which enable them to initiate secure email sessions with you, or with any of their contacts — something no other solution offers (personal clients only — companies pay standard rates).
  4. opposite counsel and other third parties are protected as well, if they so elect (normal subscription charges will apply to them if they wish fully-functional software).

​QuickLock™ complies in your US offices, too...

​How QuickLock™ measures up to the ABA’s Commentary on Rule 1.06 of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct
​“Factors to be considered in determining the reasonableness of the lawyer’s efforts include, but are not limited to:
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​Competitors
​“the sensitivity of the information”
All solicitor-client communications (including email) are protected  by privilege,  so the law already accords their security high importance
​“the likelihood of disclosure if additional safeguards are not employed”
​“additional safeguards” implies the existence of normal protection for regular legal email, when in fact regular legal email is completely  unprotected beyond the corporate firewall. The likelihood of disclosure through interception of an email protected by encryption is far lower than through interception of an unprotected email.
“the cost of employing additional safeguards”
​Reasonable
​Reasonable
​“the difficulty of implementing the safeguards”
Easy
  • no user manual required for clients
  • lawyers simply choose a password
  • not a pre-Cloud legacy solution: QuickLock™ was expressly designed to keep law firms’ communications networks running smoothly
Problematic
  • User manual required for clients
  • Unless they pay additional fees, clients cannot initiate urgent emails to lawyers, but can only reply to emails sent to them
  • In some cases, lawyers may need to keep track of encryption preferences for hundreds of clients
​“the extent to which the safeguards adversely affect the lawyer’s ability to represent clients
(e.g., by making a device or important piece of software excessively difficult to use).”
No Adverse Effects
  • by default, clients receive normal emails
  • even when choosing protected emails, clients continue to receive instantly readable messages in their in-box
  • Clients can ignore email protection if they choose
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Potentially Severe Adverse Effects
  • Urgent communications may suffer delay when clients under stress confront strict email decryption rules
  • lawyers and clients cannot exchange communications in rapid succession without lawyers sending clients to the Internet each time to read their emails.
  • Client software is limited to making replies to lawyers, not to initiating communications.
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