Law Firms

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for Law Firms

Data Protection for Law Firms
Let’s face it, the legal profession demands application availability and recovery without hassle. Traditional backup systems just don’t offer the level of data protection that you need. Double-Take® Software offers real-time data protection and recovery solutions to ensure up-to-the-minute access to business-critical data instead of relying entirely on tape.

With Double-Take® Software solutions offering real-time data replication for SQL, Exchange, and SharePoint in both a physical and virtual environment, you can ensure up-to-the-minute access to business-critical data instead of relying entirely on the tape backup from last night.

We know that a major difference in the business continuity and disaster recovery needs of law firms from those other types of business is their notably higher dependence on hourly productivity and data protection. This is compounded by the regulatory requirements that many law practices must comply with as part of supporting their clientele in various specific industries such as healthcare, financial and government. Imagine the following:

• No downtime means no lost productivity: With continuous access to data and applications your attorneys and staff are always productive.
• Your client data is protected: Not only does your firm need to abide by industry and federal regulations, but you can also ensure you are meeting the compliance concerns of your clients.
• Clients are continuously serviced ensuring complete client satisfaction.

Featured Case Studies and White Paper

Rouse International & Co Ltd

Case Study: Bird & Bird
International law firm Bird & Bird aims to provide a unique service based on an extensive knowledge of key industry sectors and legal practice. The London office supports over 250 lawyers all of whom rely on email as a critical means of communication with clients and others. For these individuals, any outage of the email service would have a serious impact on their ability to provide the high quality work and level of service that their clients expect. Whilst the firm employs a clustered Exchange system and a reliable storage platform to support its staff and maintain availability of email, there was still a risk that a full site failure would lead to messages not being received and service being affected. The firm therefore decided as part of the business continuity planning to evaluate and review replication tools to provide an additional level of protection.

Case Study: McVey & Murricane

Business Continuity: With a varied and increasing workload, further complicated by compliance obligations placed on the firm by its work with larger ‘corporate’ clients, McVey & Murricane (M&M) recognised the need for a more resilient IT infrastructure. M&M selected Xpedient Business Solutions as its preferred consultant and worked with them to develop and implement an innovative and cost-effective solution centred around Double-Take® Software.

White Paper: Maximising Data Centre Uptime with Business Continuity Planning
Next to ensuring the safety of your employees, the next most important business continuity task is resuming business critical operations. Keeping servers highly available and easily manageable is likely what keeps most data centre managers up at night. There is a higher probability that most data centres will be affected by a virus, hardware failure, power failure or upgrade gone wrong than by a disastrous weather-related event like wind, fire or rain. However, having a co-location and planning for the smallest interruption of business operations will help ensure your ability to provide the same level of service in any circumstance.

Double-Take® Software may be the solution that addresses your firm’s needs to protect its data, its productivity and therefore, its practice. If you are interested in learning more about Double-Take® Software, please email saleseu@doubletake.com or call +44 (0) 333 1234 200.