Access Legal: How Express Solicitors built a resilient disaster recovery strategy
Express Solicitors has enhanced business continuity and resilience with a three-layer disaster recovery strategy from Access Managed Services. Combining off-site backups, real-time replication and public cloud DR, the solution enables rapid recovery, ransomware protection and seamless scalability, helping the firm maintain uninterrupted client service as it continues to grow through acquisitions.
About Express Solicitors
Express Solicitors is one of the UK’s fastest growing, private equity backed law firms. Handling significant volumes of sensitive client data across a large estate of fee earners, the firm requires exceptional stability, high availability, and rapid recovery in the event of disruption. Expansion, including frequent acquisitions, increased the need for a more robust, modern disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity platform.
“The bigger you are, the more you need to protect the business… we needed a quicker response time rather than relying on restoring backups.” Stuart McLachlan, Head of IT, Express Solicitors
The Challenge
With growth came increasing operational complexity:
- Traditional backups weren’t fast enough for real time business needs
- Any outage risked disrupting cases, client service and revenue
- Ransomware threats and cyber insurance expectations were rising
- Failover and failback processes needed to be seamless
- DR must scale effortlessly as the firm acquires more businesses
- A trusted partner was essential
The Solution
A three layer DR & business continuity strategy
Access Managed Services implemented a resilient, scalable and high performance DR platform built across three complementary layers: Veeam Cloud Connect, Zerto replication and Public Cloud DR.
After researching the market, the technology options were similar. The deciding factor became partnership, reliability and ease of working together.
“Everyone was comparable… so then it was the ease of working with someone — and obviously price point.”
Read more about the partnership and why Express Solicitors selected Access Managed Services to support its growth, resilience and business continuity goals here
