Attorneys across the legal spectrum encountered significant disruptions last Friday due to an unexpected outage at CrowdStrike. The cybersecurity firm rolled out a faulty update for computers running on Windows operating systems late Thursday, causing a ripple effect of delays and access issues. The ramifications extended far beyond the legal sector, grounding flights, disrupting bank operations, and even leading to the closure of some local courts (law.com).
The disparity in impact on law firms was notable. For instance, an Am Law 200 CEO on the West Coast reported that their firm’s servers were back online, albeit with intermittent outages. Conversely, an Am Law 100 executive mentioned experiencing delays in emails and document management systems. The executive added, “I’m hearing of more West Coast latencies than on the East Coast. It really depends where [the office] is regionally, whether they’re experiencing the same symptoms even within the same firm.”
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