Top law firm picks Interchange

National law firm Shoosmiths is working with the Interchange Group to develop and deploy a remote access solution for partners and fee-earners using wireless push technology.

Interchange has provided Shoosmiths with a cost effective way of extending its corporate network allowing partners and fee-earners to access key applications, such as email, calendar and time-recording, from any location.

It will enhance the service Shoosmiths offers its clients by improving the accuracy of time recording, allowing partners and fee-earners to record time as work is completed, and by speeding up client response time.

The deal was announced at the recent LegalTech show in Birmingham and Phillip Jones, managing director of Interchange, said: "We believe the benefits that we can deliver will reap real rewards for Shoosmiths and enhance the service which they provide to their clients."

Interchange predicts that the professional services sector, including lawyers and accountants, will be the next big adopters of mobile technologies, which have already proved a major success in the service arena.

Using GPRS 'always on' technology, it keeps monthly user fees to a one-off charge which allows unlimited numbers of emails to be received and sent at no extra cost, unlike dial-up or SMS charges via traditional phone lines where users pay per message.

Interchange has 15 years experience of working with companies to enhance the efficiency of their organisation through the deployment of mobile technologies.