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About our course

Our acclaimed online course Cyber Risk for Law Firms contains essential cyber risk education in language participants can understand.

The course is suitable for both lawyers and non-lawyers and provides up-to-the-minute education about cyber risk and email fraud. The course appeals to all participants by avoiding jargon while incorporating relatable scenarios through a thoughtful, logical structure. 

Course duration: 70 minutes (approx)

Our standard T&Cs provide access for 28 days providing ample time to complete the course.

What you will learn

Our unique and up-to-the-minute course focuses on professional duties using real-life case studies impacting law firms and other businesses. You'll learn that:

  • Managing cyber risk is a professional issue

  • Why cyber risk is everyone’s responsibility in a law firm

  • How cyber events and human error occur

  • Practical steps to protect yourself, your business and your clients

Course structure

  • Our interactive course is divided into ten concise chapters that you can work through at your own pace.

  • It contains 70 minutes of video content, broken into shorter videos of around five minutes each.

  • There are four short quizzes to reinforce learnings as you progress through the course.

  • Participants must pass all the quizzes to receive a certificate of completion.

New content

Our most recent update incorporates new developments in both technology and professional responsibility. Our updated content includes:

  • Dangers associated with advances in artificial intelligence, including the use of AI and deepfake videos and audio by cyber-criminals, and the risks of law firm employees breaching confidentiality using generative AI.

  • New professional rules relating to minimum expected cybersecurity standards.

  • Lessons learned from the largest data breach impacting an Australian law firm.

  • Updated information about cybercrime and data breaches globally and in Australia.

As a sign of how important cyber education has become for all Australian legal practices, in Victoria, not educating staff who use work devices and networks on how to identify, report, and respond to cyberattacks or not providing staff with up-to-date cybersecurity training can now amount to unprofessional conduct or professional misconduct

Minimum Cybersecurity Expectations

What our participants are saying:

  • “It's great that CPD is not just about the law anymore but more about how current events affect practice.”

  • “…all lawyers [should] have to do this as part of renewing practising certificate.”

  • “As a member of support staff, it was an excellent course and should be mandatory for all law firm employees.”

"As lawyers we need to understand the risks and impacts involved in cyberattacks both for our own cyber security and that of our clients. This course has provided us with practical, relatable and valuable information to enhance the knowledge of both our professional and support teams. We required every member of our teams nationwide complete this excellent course."

Geoffrey Connellan – National Managing Partner, Moray & Agnew Lawyers

Your instructor

Simone Herbert-Lowe, Director

Simone is the legal practitioner director of Law & Cyber which provides risk management education about cyber events and email fraud and which also provides legal advice to businesses impacted by cyber events. She has 30 years of experience as a lawyer including 20 years managing legal claims against professionals. She is the author of numerous articles on professional responsibility, particularly in relation to cyber risk, and she has given written expert opinion in legal proceedings involving allegations of email-enabled fraud. In 2022 Simone was named Innovator of the Year (Individual) at the Lawyers' Weekly Women in Law Awards. She is passionate about protecting Australians from cyber-crime and helping businesses to build a cyber-aware culture.
Learn more about Simone here

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Chapter 01: Welcome

    • Using the course player

    • Introduction: Cyber Risk for Law Firms

  • 2

    Chapter 02: Cybercrime today and lawyers' professional duties

    • Cybercrime and lawyers' professional duties
  • 3

    Chapter 03: Impersonation fraud

    • Impersonation fraud

    • Check in
  • 4

    Chapter 04: Phishing

    • Phishing - Introduction

    • How to recognise phishing emails

    • Check in

  • 5

    Chapter 05: Securing your log-in credentials

    • Securing your log-in credentials

    • Check in
  • 6

    Chapter 06: Use of email to compromise other accounts

    • How email can be used to access other platforms
  • 7

    Chapter 07: Data theft, identity fraud, and the dark web

    • Data theft

    • Identity fraud and the dark web
  • 8

    Chapter 08: Cyber extortion

    • Cyber extortion

    • Can you spot a phishing message? Take this short quiz on the ACSC website (Optional content)
  • 9

    Chapter 09: Human error

    • Human error

    • Check in

  • 10

    Chapter 10: Summary & Addtional Resources

    • Course summary

    • One minute survey - help us provide the education that law firms need

    • Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner: Minimum Cybersecurity expectations

    • Helpful Resources from the Australian Cyber Security Centre
  • 11

    About L & C

    • Author and Presenter

    • Our Education Portfolio

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