Who's Buying What

Seven-office Lincolnshire and Humberside firm Bridge McFarland has chosen Select Legal for a firm-wide IT infrastructure and software base upgrade.

Select is already the 20-partner firm's single source IT supplier and it will provide new Dell PCs, Dell servers and Windows software as well as 'top-up' consultancy, training and additional Select modules on top of the BackOffice, Fee Earner Desktop, ExoServer and case management systems it already supplies.

Five-partner Northamptonshire firm Smith Chamberlain is set to upgrade its practice and case management systems in a move which will see preferred supplier AIM Professional Systems roll out Evolution Client/Server across 30 desktops.

Bells, a three-partner firm in Romsey, Hampshire, is spending 46,000 to install Technology for Business's Partner for Windows suite.

There will be 16 new work stations, including advanced SVGA monitors and Microsoft XP software.

The firm was originally a client of Avenue Legal Systems.

East London criminal firm Ronald Prior & Co has used Professional Technology (UK) to establish a single communications link with a second office it has opened further up Hoe Street in Walthamstow.

The company has installed Cisco 1760 routers to connect the two sites over a dedicated Kilostream-N link with ISDN dial-up connections for route back-up and bandwidth on demand, as well as high-speed Internet connection.

Opus Business Systems installed an Inter-Tel Axxess telephone system using VoIP technology with a single switchboard situated at the main office.

Leading defendant insurance practice Weightman Vizards has used Manchester-based Moonfish to design and implement its new Web site.

Initially a brochure site for the 73-partner firm, the next stage of development will see the addition of e-services, including extranets for clients.

LINKS: www.weightmanvizards.com