City firm Eversheds has signed up to Interface Software's InterAction5 client relationship management software.

InterAction includes tools to help client service teams identify clients' business, growth and strategic challenges, and includes an independent audit programme.

Also in the City, Berwin Leighton Paisner is to install an Internet protocol (IP) that combines voice and data as part of a 250,000 overhaul of its IT.

Bailey Telecom will upgrade the firm's existing offices and newly refurbished premises at St Magnus House.

The system will use special handsets to converge voice and data and will enable systems to be updated over time.

The firm's two sites will communicate via fibre optic cables, meaning only one link is needed.

City firm Rooks Rider has chosen AIM Professional Systems to provide it with a practice and file management system.

The Evolution system features time recording, billing functionality and file opening procedures on the desktop, and will be integrated with the iManage document management platform.

West country-based Bevan Ashford is to roll out nFlow Software's DictaFlow digital dictation package.

Following a successful pilot in its construction department, DictaFlow will be installed in the firm's Bristol, Birmingham and London offices.

Some 120 members of the judiciary from the Immigration Appellate Authority and Immigration Appellate Tribunal are to receive training in desktop speech recognition to quicken the turnaround of adjudication documents.

The organisations have signed a three-year agreement with managed services provider EDS and speech solution provider SRC following trials with 40 judges from both tiers.

Communication technology consultancy the ITM Group is to update Leeds firm Lupton Fawcett's legacy IT system, bringing savings that will cover the 500,000 replacement cost.

The Novell exteNd Web services application will be used to enhance the firm's practice management system to enhance management reporting, and aims to save five person days of manual data collection per month.

Future phases will enable clients to access their case details on line and review the current status of ongoing cases in real time.

Also in Leeds, Web developer ActiveLawyer has relaunched Hammonds' Web site.

The new site allows each practice area to publish material.