Case Study: Brown Rudnick achieves unified email management and 60% cost savings with Mimecast

Email Search and DLP Difficult Without Centrally Managed Email System

Brown Rudnick, an international law firm led in IT by CIO Jim Darsigny, faced rising email risks and regulatory burdens: the bulk of client communication lives in email, increasing chances of data leaks, complicated eDiscovery and time-consuming multi-vendor management. The firm needed a unified, immediately available solution to secure, archive and manage email across six offices without adding on‑premise overhead.

They implemented Mimecast’s cloud-based Unified Email Management, replacing multiple point solutions with one SaaS platform that delivers archiving, continuity, security, spam/virus filtering and centralized policy enforcement. The result was immediate and measurable: simplified administration, improved eDiscovery and chain-of-custody, roughly 60% cost savings, a 40% infrastructure improvement (including repurposing 2 TB of disk), zero new hardware and continuous, reliable email availability.

Brown Rudnick

Jim Darsigny

Chief Information Officer