‘Cloud Computing’; Mallesons Cut-Backs Send Firm Technology into Hell

With a voluntary redundancy programme presently afoot, it seems that Mallesons partners are looking for quicker ways to cut costs and technology is the clear victim.

and 5 year old computers

Earlier this month, Mallesons executive director Gerard Neiditsch is reported to have said:

Our budget has not suffered but we have retargeted it … from there it is a natural progression for cloud computing.

Progressing … into cloud computing? Isn’t that just techno-nerd speak for ‘ascension into heaven’? We hope this biblical garbage isn’t a sign that Mallesons is suffering a terminal illness. But if it were, now might be an opportune time to atone for all that witchcraft and sorcery nonsense.

Of course, one would imagine that if a law firm were serious about ‘progression for cloud computing’, a vow of poverty might help. With that in mind, the technological cutbacks revealed later in the article suggest that Mallesons is consciously impoverishing itself to reach cloud computing nirvana:

Also keeping costs in check has been [the extension of] the lives of Mallesons personal computer fleet from its usual three years to five years… Neiditsch … says he struck a good bargain for the machines. Having stretched the usual refresh period to five years, Neiditsch said that, “The unit cost was less than half what we paid five years ago. There is significant saving when you amortise that.”

Mallesons has also slowed the refresh rate on lawyers’ favourite gizmos, BlackBerries. “We have exhausted the benefits from that. We are not increasing the number and there has not been much innovation so we will just maintain the fleet”.

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