City giant Clifford Chance has selected SoftWise Corporation's document automation platform Innova and its metadata management utility Out-of-Sight. Both products will be deployed to 7,000 users across the firm's 29 offices.


The deal will provide the firm with a standard global desktop of document-production tools, with a global template management system and numbering interface.


Historically, the firm developed its templates in-house but the new system will allow it to have a consistent set on a global basis.



Fellow magic circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has signed up to a suite of products from Verity that will form the basis of its know-how system.



The firm has opted for Verity's K2 Enterprise and its Collaborative Classifier, taxonomy and classification management software that enables subject matter experts to organise information around specific business roles and requirements. Freshfields plans to roll out both products, which will replace a combination of home-grown and other search and classification systems, in early 2005.


The City firm has also adopted Verity Response, which handles frequently asked questions to speed up the process of finding information.



Merseyside law firm Lees Lloyd Whitley has automated its data back-up and recovery system by implementing EVault's InfoStage, an on-line disk-to-disk software solution.



The move enables the firm to centralise its back-up from remote offices to an electronic vault in Birkenhead. Lees Lloyd Whitley also selected EVault DeltaPro technology to resolve any network bandwidth issues.



Vertex Law, the recently launched commercial law firm based in Kent, has selected Aderant's CMS.Net practice management system.



CMS.Net was deployed to all 20 fee-earners at the firm, which opened for business last month, and gives them control over time and billing management. The new system was implemented in just three weeks.