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London, UK – July 10th, 2007 – BigHand has announced that the leading Irish law firm A&L Goodbody has successfully rolled out BigHand3 Digital Dictation workflow software. The award-winning system allows lawyers at the leading Irish firm to draft legal documentation via dictation regardless of their location or whether they have PC/laptop access. Secretaries at A&L Goodbody can also view workloads, share work via virtual teams, and help to cut document turnaround times.

Dee O Halloran, Secretarial Manager at A&L Goodbody commented:

''BigHand has revolutionised the way we work, changed the way we share, distribute and manage workloads, and increased turnaround times and output. BigHand has been hugely beneficial to our Secretariat by helping them to continue to provide a first class service to our lawyers and clients.''

Susan Kemp, IT Director at A&L Goodbody, who now has over 300 users on BigHand3 software, commented:

''We are obviously delighted to bring in a technology that benefits both internal workflow efficiency and client service. The rollout of the system was a very smooth process and received very positive feedback from fee-earners and secretaries as soon as we went live. It has been particularly beneficial for fee-earners to be able to do dictations remotely via their mobile phone or using the remote dictation devices. We are planning to enable the BigHand solution over Citrix in the coming months to provide seamless remote working capabilities.''

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Contact:
Jo Beckwith, BigHand. Email: jo.beckwith@bighand.com Tel: +44 (0)20 7940 5946

About BigHand

Based out of Chicago, London and Sydney BigHand is the leading digital dictation vendor in the global legal sector, maintaining the five largest sites at international law firms and with more legal installations in total than all other suppliers combined. BigHand3 was nominated as “Best of Breed System of the Year” at the Legal Technology Awards 2007. BigHand was named as the fastest growing legal software developer in The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 league tables for both 2005 and 2006. BigHand was also recognized by Deloitte as one of the 500 fastest growing software vendors in Europe in 2006. Additionally BigHand was voted "Best Legal Office Technology System 2004" from votes from over 14,000 lawyers and IT managers across the legal sector at the LOTIE Awards. BigHand's leading product also won the Society for Computers & Law IT Award in 2003 for "the most outstanding application of information technology to the law". Further information is available at http://www.bighand.com

About A&L Goodbody

With 65 Partners, including over 550 employees and a legal staff of over 250 A&L Goodbody is one of the largest law firms in Ireland. Having been established more than 100 years ago, the Firm has an international outlook with offices in Dublin, Belfast, London, Boston and New York. We are continually ranked as the No. 1 Irish law firm by many international publications, including most recently, Irish Law Firm of the Year (2007) by Chambers Europe and Who’s Who Legal. In addition various specialist areas and individuals within A&L Goodbody are continually awarded industry recommendations. The Firm offers a service portfolio combining corporate law expertise with a specialist focus on the key legal disciplines and business sectors led by the leading individual experts in these areas.