The financial markets litigation department at City law firm Simmons & Simmons has selected Attenex, the electronic discovery software developer, to help it meet a request to review more than 750,000 pages of electronic documents. The firm will use Attenex Patterns to review 40 gigabytes of data, which includes 300,000 e-mails and attachments. Incorporating an intuitive user interface, Attenex's visualisation technology enables reviewers to identify relevant documents more quickly.

Cardiff firm Malloy & Barry has called on Paramount Information Technology to upgrade its IT systems. The new arrangements allow staff to work from home yet retain continuity of data with the office. Paramount IT is also able to dial into the system and repair any fault without having to be in the office. Malloy & Barry has also updated its accounting and time recording systems with SOS (Solicitors Own Software).


Cryoserver, the forensic e-mail compliance company, has signed up two more law firms: City firm Taylor Wessing and Watford-based Matthew Arnold Baldwin. Cryoserver makes an audit copy of every e-mail into, out of and around an organisation through a black box recorder. The system allows firms to recover historical e-mail correspondence quickly and in its original format.


Suffolk firm Prettys has signed up to Visualfiles' M2 file management tool.


Leeds firm Grahame Stowe Bateson has upgraded to Professional Technology's Quaestor for Windows. Back office functions are centralised at its main office but all 100 users across the firm's six offices can access accounts and time recording information on-line and in real time. Professional Technology also implemented a server computer at the firm's headquarters that utilises Microsoft's SQL Server to house and maintain all back-office data. Branch offices were then connected using virtual private networking over the Internet. Microsoft's Exchange Server 2003 was also installed to provide practice-wide integrated e-mail, diary and collaboration software.


Solcara has implemented its SolSearch technology at City giant Clifford Chance. SolSearch allows lawyers and professional services staff at the firm to search across multiple knowledge and information sources efficiently. Anyone with access to the Clifford Chance intranet can, from a single search box on every page, simultaneously search across knowledge and expertise databases, intranets and other data. London firm Lane & Partners also implemented SolSearch this summer.