FT.com link to help Eversheds keep clients informed
Eversheds has become the first law firm to broker a deal with the Financial Times' ft.com Internet portal, and from autumn will supply business data to its clients via its own Web site.
Information will be filtered from ft.com to suit Eversheds' clients' specific practice needs.Eversheds' head of e-strategy, Kevin Doolan, who took on a non-fee earning role in January when he stepped down from being national banking head, said the firm had spent a year preparing for the development.He said the partnership with ft.com was one of four partnering arrangements to be announced over the next few weeks.
The move is part of a comprehensive overhaul of the firm's on-line services.Eversheds will charge clients for the service.
The firm will decide the price and method of payment shortly, in consultation with a panel of ten blue-chip clients.A spokesman for ft.com - which has 140 partnering agreements with non-legal corporations in the UK and abroad - said the portal is in ongoing talks with other UK law firms with a view to similar syndications.Jeremy Fleming
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