Cloud & infrastructure for legal
Infrastructure built around confidentiality, performance and recovery
Law firms run on the DMS, practice management and Microsoft 365. Cloud and infrastructure has to make that stack fast, secure and recoverable - in a way the SRA, the insurers and the partnership are all comfortable with.
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Why it matters
Cloud & infrastructure in legal earns its keep when it joins the business together
Most UK firms now run a DMS in private or vendor cloud, practice management hosted, and a Microsoft 365 tenant holding years of client documents. Small decisions about hosting, identity and connectivity have outsized effects on confidentiality and performance.
Done well, infrastructure becomes invisible to fee-earners. Done badly, it shows up as DMS slowness, surprise Azure bills and a DR position the partnership has never seen demonstrated.
What the work covers
What cloud and infrastructure work looks like in a legal business
DMS and practice management hosting done properly
iManage, NetDocuments, Aderant, LEAP and similar hosted on a known reference, sized for the firm.
Microsoft 365 and identity as the spine
Entra ID, conditional access and a clean tenant baseline that everything else plugs into.
Backup and DR that has been tested
Off-tenant Microsoft 365 backup, DMS backup and a documented recovery time the partnership trusts.
FinOps so spend is defensible
Tagging, budgets and a monthly conversation the COO can challenge.
What needs to be in place
The foundations a legal cloud partner expects to see
Identity that everything plugs into
Entra ID with conditional access and privileged access management taken seriously.
Monitoring that watches the right things
Coverage of DMS, practice management, Microsoft 365 and the inbound mail path, with response defined.
Hybrid working without leaks
OneDrive, SharePoint and personal device policy tightened so hybrid working doesn't leak client data.
Patch and policy hygiene
Patching cadence and baseline policies that hold up across the firm.
What good looks like
A partner who has done this in legal before saves you the first year of learning
A legal-aware infrastructure partner has been through a DMS migration, knows what an SRA-aware DR position looks like, and has an honest opinion on hybrid versus vendor cloud. They'll make hosting predictable, the DMS fast and DR something the partnership can see demonstrated.
Fee-earners stop noticing the infrastructure, the partnership stops asking why the DMS is slow, and the next lateral or merger plugs into a known reference.
Outcomes you should expect
- DMS and practice management on a known, performant reference
- Microsoft 365 baseline that meets SRA and ICO expectations
- DR position documented, tested and trusted by the partnership
- Cloud spend understood and defensible
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