Exchange sensitive documents with clients, counsel, and courts using end-to-end encryption. Opponible audit trail. Built with the discipline that regulated practice demands.
The client photographs the signed document and sends it via WhatsApp. It sits on three servers (WhatsApp, iCloud, Google Photos), crosses borders without clarity, and survives on the client's phone. No audit trail. No retention policy. No defensible position if a dispute arises.
At 11pm on Friday, tired, you click Reply All on a thread and send a confidential brief to the opposing counsel's entire distribution list. It has happened to everyone, or to their colleague. The ICO fines, the professional liability insurance calls. Weeks of stress for an autocomplete.
Dropbox Personal, Google Drive, OneDrive set up by the office manager who left. One folder per matter, with no structure, no permissions control, no proof of who opened what. When a former client asks for their file back, retrieval takes three days.
Client sending you a signed retainer via WhatsApp, or a contract as an email attachment? Forward it to your firm's dedicated import address — it lands encrypted in the correct matter folder. No desktop download, no manual renaming. Under one second of in-memory exposure for security checks, then zero-knowledge like the rest.
Each file has its own vault. The client uploads retainers, ID documents, evidence; you organise by hearing, filing, counterparty. Everything with names and metadata still readable in 10 years.
Invite a junior or a barrister from another chambers to a single matter, without giving access to the rest. Granular permissions: who can read, who can upload, who can sign. Instant revocation.
The client confirms they have read a document or signed a retainer with a PIN sent by email: RFC 3161 timestamp, cryptographic audit. Advanced electronic signature with strong evidential weight in court.
Every access to the matter (who, when, from which IP, which file) is recorded in an immutable log. One click and you export a digitally signed PDF, ready for production in court or during regulatory inspection.
Indefinite archive (10-year retention obligation for case files). Automatic policy: documents move to cold archive after 5 years, remain retrievable, occupy less space. Deletion with court-admissible certificate at the end of the retention period.
Solicitor Thompson receives an email from a prospective new client. Instead of replying "please send me the documents as attachments", she opens Securoo and in 30 seconds creates the dedicated area "Smith v Jones — Unfair Dismissal".
She sends the client a personalised link. The client opens it from their phone, uploads a photograph of the termination letter, the payslip, the employment contract. Each document is encrypted on their device before it leaves. Thompson receives a notification: three new files, already sorted by type.
Thompson invites her paralegal with access only to that matter. The paralegal reviews the documents, annotates, uploads the first draft. They exchange comments inside the platform. When the retainer needs signing, the client receives a PIN by email, signs with certified acknowledgement. Everything is tracked.
One year later, an SRA compliance visit lands. Thompson exports the access register of each matter in three clicks. Digitally signed PDF, ready for the reviewer. No anxiety, no frantic reconstruction of emails and chats.
I used to receive retainers as blurry photographs over WhatsApp. Now the client opens a link, signs with PIN, and I have everything on file. Time recovered in one month is worth six months of Securoo subscription.
Our certified acknowledgement is an advanced electronic signature (PIN sent by email + RFC 3161 qualified timestamp). It has strong evidential weight in civil proceedings under the Electronic Communications Act 2000. It covers most retainers, mandates, and document handovers. For acts that the law specifically requires to be signed with a qualified electronic signature (certain court filings, conveyancing deeds), a separate qualified-signature service is needed — that is not Securoo's use case.
Audit trail with SHA-256 hash chain and RFC 3161 timestamps is designed to survive regulatory scrutiny. Every access to matter files is immutably logged. You can export access registers as signed PDFs. Combined with the DPA we provide, you have a defensible position on client confidentiality and data protection obligations.
Zero-knowledge architecture means Securoo cannot read the content of your matter files. This strongly supports legal professional privilege: even under a court order, we technically cannot produce readable copies of privileged communications — only encrypted ciphertext that we cannot decrypt.
We have working connectors for Clio and Actionstep, in beta for LEAP. Documents stay encrypted in Securoo; case management systems store only metadata and references. REST API available for custom integrations on Business and Enterprise plans.
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