City firm Linklaters has taken up a joint application provided by Citrix, Microsoft and HP to assist it with future mergers. The combined solution will deploy 450 applications to a user base of 5,000 employees in Linklaters' offices around the globe. Employees will gain access to information resources regardless of where they are based, to support teams of counsel all working for one client. The structure is intended to make it easier to integrate with other systems if Linklaters merges with another firm.

Heatons has purchased a practice management system from Norwel Computer Services to serve 80 staff across its offices in Birmingham, Manchester and Stoke-on-Trent. The system incorporates accounts, time recording, electronic bank reconciliation and nominal analysis.


Three firms have purchased fully integrated practice and case management system Osprey.TM PMS from Pracctice: North Devon firm Brewer Harding & Rowe, Duncan Lewis in London and Harrow, and T.A. Matthews in Hereford. The system provides accounting, time recording, billing and case management services and generates standard precedents and correspondence.


Yorkshire firm Chadwick Lawrence has signed an agreement with Aderant and FWBS to provide a legal practice management solution. The system uses the OMS matter-centre and CMS.net.


Hull-based Sandersons is the latest firm to take up the Videss practice management system.


Cripps Harries Hall in the south-east has signed a contract to implement the Elite financial and practice management system from software provider Thomson Elite. The package includes Elite Workflow, a system to streamline the provision of client care letters and assist the firm in compliance with practice rule 15.