NEW PRODUCTS ROUND-UP

Legal IT supplier Axxia begins our round-up of the latest product developments with the launch of its relationship intelligence tool, aimed at giving solicitors a 'bird's-eye view' of their firm's client relationships.

Browser-based Axxia Personal Knowledge Centre provides access to information ranging from financial to marketing from a single desktop window.Adobe Systems, best known for providing software solutions for the publishing world, has moved into the legal market with its document-sharing tool, Acrobat Approval.

Firms can progress towards paperless offices by storing information - including case histories, audio testimonies and photographic evidence - on PDF format.

Class Publishing has introduced an on-line version of the annual family law publication At a Glance, containing more than 40 calculators and other modules for ancillary relief.

The product - @eGlance - performs personalised calculations, inserts the data into word processing or spreadsheet documents, and includes free quarterly updates.

Firms looking to introduce speech recognition equipment can create, host and test applications without paying an up-front fee, through a joint venture by technology solution provider SRC and manufacturer Rhetorical.

Users can access VoiceXML, which is usable via a telephone and voice browser, for a flat monthly charge rather than having to buy the hosting equipment.Police IT specialist ABM has produced a facial verification service, created to cope with the increasing levels of CCTV evidence being used in proceedings.

ABM also provides a forensic-standard report on other visual evidence, such as clothing, build and shoe size.LawPak Financial Systems has promised to cut the costs of time recording and accounting with its new FULL package, an Internet-based service offering data entry and retrieval from any location.

The service is priced on a 'pay-per-view' basis, so firms will be charged for the time spent on-line rather than the type of transaction.Small and medium sized firms can now upgrade their Web sites - for free - to include regularly updated legal information, with a new service from DiscLaw Publishing.

DiscLaw will provide basic Extranet legal content based on its own Web site, www.emplaw.co.uk, with standard and top-of-the range versions available at a charge.Market Terminal, a new financial information product for law firms' corporate finance teams, features data from leading suppliers and allows access through the Internet.

In-depth market information from sources such as the London Stock Exchange and Dow Jones newswires is included in the product.

Firms using Visualdoc, Solicitec's new intelligent document assembly product, can build up files and case management around single documents.

The Web-based system allows solicitors to capture and view each stage of a document's construction for reference, reprinting and recompilation purposes.Management solution provider I-many has modernised its debt recovery service, Legal Arms, so that it is available through the Internet.

Reports, letters and supporting documents and legislation are now more easily accessible, and the debt recovery process tailored for each client.