City firm DLA has implemented Whale Communications' e-Gap Remote Access Application, which allows staff to have browser-based access to the firm's e-mail system from any place they can find an Internet connection.

The firm was advised by Eurodata Systems, a consultancy.

Dene Rowe, DLA's infrastructure development manager, said: 'Our lawyers can now access the information they need from any location with a standard Web browser, faster than ever before, thereby increasing productivity.'

Fellow City firm Lewis Silkin has selected File-it Image Capture from Intech Solutions to manage documentation received from external sources.

It has implemented a solution based on scanners attached to the local area network by Axis 7000 Network Document Servers.

These are small devices that do not require a dedicated PC for scanning in each workgroup.

Users enter client or matter numbers and File-it does the rest, creating the document in Lewis Silkin's existing Hummingbird DOCS Open system, until now used just for internal documents created in Microsoft Office.

The firm's IT head, Jan Durant, says it will consider next year whether also to buy the module aimed at e-mail capture.

Four new clients for Aim Professional Systems and its Evolution practice and case management system: leading Cumbrian firm Cartmell Shepherd, which has 95 users; top Shropshire practice Lanyon Bowdler, with 120 users over four offices; Peterborough City Council's legal department; and 160-user Surrey firm TWM Solicitors, which is replacing an existing system from Axxia.

Cardiff practice Thomas Graham has chosen Linetime's Liberate accounts practice management software to replace its existing Avenue package.

The College of Law has placed an order worth more than 100,000 with IT services group Touchstone for a customer relationship management system.

Touchstone recommended SalesLogix CRM software, which will allow the college to record contacts centrally while providing access to all shared information.

Lincoln's Inn-based Wilberforce Chambers has gone live with an Intranet system from Whitespace Software, aimed at cutting out the inefficiencies of communicating between different sites and different levels in the same building.

Global firm Baker & McKenzie has signed a three-year $6.2 million (3.9 million) extension with Equant for it to continue managing an IP VPN solution for the firm.

VPNs (virtual private networks) are private networks that use, in part, the shared infrastructure of a public network to transport data.