Case Study: Morgan Cole LLP achieves always-on email continuity, instant 10-year searchable archiving and rapid ROI with Mimecast

Mimecast’s all-in-one service reduces email complexity for law firm Morgan Cole

Morgan Cole, a full‑service regional law firm with about 552 staff across six UK offices, struggled with rapidly growing email volumes on a single on‑premises system. Important correspondence was scattered in PSTs, making retrieval slow and laborious, and separate anti‑spam/AV services plus looming storage needs threatened system resilience, business continuity and predictable IT budgeting—especially as the firm expanded and completed a merger.

The firm adopted Mimecast’s cloud‑based, all‑in‑one service (replicated across three UK data centers) to provide anti‑spam/AV, always‑on continuity, an Outlook plug‑in and an instantly searchable 10‑year rolling archive. The result: emails are retrievable in seconds, Exchange database and SAN load were reduced through auto‑archiving, users kept access during a flood, the service scaled to add 80 mailboxes for a merger, and Morgan Cole achieved ROI within the first year with about £20,400 annual savings over the first three years.

Morgan Cole LLP

Jeff Wright

IT Director