Who's buying what

Newcastle-based Dickinson Dees is the latest to sign up to digital dictation after selecting WinScribe digital dictation workflow technology from SRC.

It will initially be deployed to 100 staff before rolling out to 420 users in the firm's Newcastle and Tees Valley offices by the end of 2004.

IT director Simon Earnshaw said 130 lawyers already have the capability to work remotely, and that this system was the final piece of the office technology puzzle.

Manchester firm JMW has invested 200,000 in a consolidated IT solution with a combined case and practice management system from Videss, which is to be rolled out to 130 users at its Manchester and Altrincham offices.

The case management system also includes a document capture facility, which JMW intends to use to develop a complete document management system.

Tunbridge Wells-based Thomson Snell & Passmore has signed up as the first legal customer of business continuity solutions provider Office-Shadow's crisis management package.

The system comprises crisis management consultancy and planning, a customer data security audit, off-site data back-up and replication, an IT recovery service and a crisis management centre.

Five-partner Winchester firm Godwins has decided to replace its existing Avenue installation with a package from Axxia, putting accounting package Eiion at the heart of the practice, rolling out the Axxia Desktop productivity suite and Case Manager to all fee earners, and also including a new server and PC hardware.

Hertfordshire firm Stanley de Leon has selected DPS Software to supply its case management system.