Mimecast Signs 50 Legal Firms in UK

Mimecast Services Ltd announced
that it works with 70 of the top 100 legal firms in the UK and around 130 of
the top 200.

Recent additions to Mimecast’s portfolio of legal customers include
SJ Berwin, Foot Anstey, Kingsley Napley, Weightmans and Russell Cooke.

Mimecast has signed up 50 new law firms in the last six months and
also increased its market presence in UK chambers, with over 25
customers. The Bar Council of England and Wales are one of the latest to use
Mimecast’s services for security and long-term archiving.

The legal sector was one of the earliest adopters of Mimecast
technology when the company was founded in 2003 due to law firms’ heavy
reliance on emails.

In the first instance, most legal firms used Mimecast because of its
continuity of service. In recent years, archiving has become more important for
risk management, so law firms have embraced these services. With the
growth of mobile email and flexible working making even five minutes of email
downtime damaging to a business, Mimecast’s mobile access services have become
essential to law firms.

Kevin Elsden, network manager, SJ Berwin LLP, comments: "Essentially, the key reason for using
Mimecast was its functionality. We used to have four separate products for four
separate functions, but Mimecast do all of them together so we were able to
amalgamate it all into one The transition to Mimecast was smooth and the impact
on users was minimal. It’s been a reliable service since implementation in July
2011, and we have no regrets with choosing Mimecast."

Thereza Snyman, head of IT, Kingsley Napley LLP, comments: "The question is not why would you have Mimecast,
but why wouldn’t you have it It’s a comprehensive solution that covers business
continuity, security and archiving in one. This relieves time pressures on the
IT department and gives users fingertip control for searching and managing
their archive. The first project I
undertook on joining Kingsley Napley in September 2011 was to implement
Mimecast. The first and most important reason being the business continuity
aspect, and the second considerable advantage being the secure archiving of
emails, ensuring full audit compliance. In my view, on-premise solutions are
cumbersome and, over time, create storage bottlenecks, so having the archive in
the cloud was a big attraction with Mimecast."

"Lawyers need access to emails from
mobile devices wherever they are, 24 hours a day. Mimecast is one of only a few
providers to be able to offer full email archive access from Windows Phone,
iOS, Android or BlackBerry devices, making us a vendor of choice for law firms,"
commented Eliza Hedegaard, account director Legal at Mimecast. "Innovation has always been crucial to our
business and we’ll be continuing to develop new services and technologies that
will help our legal customers provide the most efficient service possible,
whilst maintaining their competitive edge. 2012 will be a milestone year for
Mimecast innovation – we’re readying the most exciting product roadmap in our
history."