Privileged files, discovery sets, and client financials don't stop being confidential when a laptop is retired. Your duty of confidentiality follows the hardware out the door.
Law firms accumulate some of the most sensitive data there is — privileged communications, litigation files, e-discovery productions, client financial and medical records — spread across laptops, document-management servers, backup drives, and multifunction copiers.
EndByte gives firms a disposal process that's easy to defend: every drive logged by serial, sanitized to NIST 800-88 or physically destroyed, verified, and certified. If a client or insurer asks what happened to a retired device, the answer is a certificate, not a shrug.
ABA Model Rule 1.6(c) asks lawyers to make reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized disclosure of client information, and California Business & Professions Code § 6068(e) requires attorneys to maintain client confidences inviolate. Secure, documented media disposal is part of meeting that duty.
General information, not legal advice. Your compliance obligations depend on your organization — check with your counsel or compliance lead.
Every drive logged by serial before it moves, so your asset records and ours match.
Every wiped drive is read back in full. Anything that fails is physically destroyed.
Model, serial, method, date, and result — formatted for the people who audit you.
Your IT lead or office manager can watch drives get destroyed on site.
Multifunction copiers store scanned documents — we'll handle those drives too.
Reports reconcile drives to your asset list for client or insurer questions.
Tell us the count and we'll quote it today.