The following services description covers incremental details specific to the Total IT Legal offering. For a full description of our overarching Managed Services covering response time expectations, implementation/onboarding, how we provide support, limitations and client responsibilities please start here.
Total IT Legal is a comprehensive managed service offering from ITS, designed specifically to meet the unique needs of law firms. This integrated solution combines infrastructure management, service desk support, advanced cybersecurity, and workplace services into a unified package. ITS enhances this offering with prioritized response times, a designated, legal-experienced service desk team, complemented by Technology Alignment Engineers (TAEs) working in close partnership with legal-experienced Strategic Advisors (SAs). Additionally, select employees can benefit from VIP white-glove service, ensuring the highest level of personalized IT support for legal professionals.
Total IT Legal is comprised of Total IT’s 4 main service areas. The table below summarizes the categories of services in Total IT Legal with a link to the full service description for each service area.
| Service | Summary |
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| Advanced Cybersecurity |
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| Infrastructure Support |
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| Service Desk |
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| Workplace |
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| Strategic Advisory (SA) Services | Total IT Legal clients are assigned a Strategic Advisor, with law firm experience. They have a better understanding of industry software, workflows, compliance requirements, and will work with clients on an ongoing basis. SAs offer a regular point of contact for the client. SAs will schedule quarterly Strategic Review meetings and will prepare and maintain a 5 Year Strategic Roadmap. These Strategic Advisory Services are included at no additional cost. |
| Technology Alignment Engineer (TAE) Services | Total IT clients are also assigned a TAE who will proactively identify issues in a client’s environment before they become incidents impacting users. TAE’s ensure the client’s technology environment aligns with ITS recommendations based on industry standards such as NIST and CIS. The TAE works in partnership with the client’s SA to build and maintain a Technology Roadmap. |
Please follow the links above to see a full description of each service area.
| Type | Measurement | Description |
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| Critical Response – P1 Whole company is affected, and major business processes are stopped |
30 min | A technician will respond to the request and begin working the issue |
| High Response – P2 Major business processes are stopped for a department or single user |
1 hour | A technician will respond to the request and begin working the issue |
| Medium Response – P3 Business is degraded, but there is a reasonable workaround |
6 hours | A technician will respond to the request and begin working the issue |
| Normal Response – P4 Issue that is more of an irritation than a stoppage |
8 hours | A technician will respond to the request and begin working the issue |
| Average Speed to Answer (ASA) | 60 seconds | Phone calls will be answered on average within 60 seconds. (measured monthly) |
The VIP Service within Total IT Legal is designed to provide premium, white-glove IT support for key personnel, such as senior partners, managing attorneys, and executive staff within legal firms. This offering ensures expedited response times, and priority handling of all IT-related requests for VIP key personnel. This elite level of support minimizes disruptions, enhances productivity, and ensures that high-value professionals can focus on their legal practice without technology barriers. VIP Service is an additional monthly cost per identified key personnel users. Service Level Objectives are as follows:
| Type | Measurement | Description |
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| Urgent Response – P2 | 30 min | A technician will respond to the request and begin working the issue |
| High Response – P3 | 1 hour | A technician will respond to the request and begin working the issue |
| Normal Response – P4 | 1 hour | A technician will respond to the request and begin working the issue |
| Average Speed to Answer (ASA) | 45 seconds | Phone calls will be answered on average within 45 seconds. (measured monthly) |