The City & County of Swansea, Carmarthenshire County Council and Cheshire County Council are the latest local authorities to purchase Evolution software from AIM Professional Systems.


Swansea has extended its existing Evolution filing structure to allow data to be manipulated with Microsoft Outlook and Word. It has purchased the PostRoom facility to minimise distribution of paper documents and will also implement AIM's ClientConnect module, so that up-to-date information on the status of cases may be published on the Internet. Camarthenshire has purchased a case processing and management information system, while Cheshire will roll out case management and time recording software, in addition to the debt management systems already in place from the supplier.



Four firms in East Anglia have purchased BigHand digital dictation software: Ashton Graham, Fosters, HowesPercival and Kester Cunningham John.



London firm Ole Hansen has signed up to The Partnership Suite case, matter and practice management software from LFM Group. Four firms in the north have bought electronic legal forms software from the same provider: Hill Dickinson, Berg & Co, Atteys and Keoghs have purchased the LFM8 SP5 product that includes a PDF e-mailing facility, expandable forms and automatic databases.



Liverpool's Irvings has purchased the digital dictation package for small and medium-sized practices from nFlow.



South Yorkshire firm Hartley & Worstenholme has signed a six-figure deal to replace its Avenue system with the SOS client relationship management and accounts systems and Visualfiles' SolCase software.



London firm Tarlo Lyons has implemented the Out of the Box financial and practice management system from Elite.



Manchester's Pannone & Partners has installed a VoIP system to give fee-earners working from home full access to the company network and call recording. The system allows telephone calls to be made by computer, routed over broadband.



City firm Charles Russell and Newcastle's Dickinson Dees have chosen Isokon software for trusts and probate work.



Solicitors First - the south-west London law firm that is the result of a three-way merger between Laurie Moran Arthur Solicitors, Fayers and Davies Brown - has selected Pracctice to supply it with the Osprey.TM practice and case management system.



The firm will effectively be able to access its accounts and case management software from any broadband-enabled site.



Channel Islands firm Carey Olsen has chosen to implement Interwoven's WorkSite 8 matter-centric collaboration software to allow it to consolidate two million electronic documents, relating to 100,000 live and closed cases.