SproutIT, Legal IT Specialists, today announced that leading barristers’ chambers, 1 Crown Office Row has selected LegalIT specific managed services from SproutIT. 1 Crown Office Row are one of the largest London and Brighton based sets to be regularly rated in the top 30 sets in England.
They are recognised as having leading practitioners in civil and public law, including all aspects of healthcare law, clinical negligence and personal injury, professional disciplinary proceedings, human rights, public inquiries, inquests, employment, professional negligence, costs, matrimonial finance, tax and environmental law. They also have a team of 15 accredited mediators.
Since being awarded the contract, resulting from a highly competitive tender process, SproutIT have quickly implemented a robust day-to-day IT Support facility for over 135 people working across their London, Brighton and Manchester locations. A full infrastructure refresh has seen the implementation of market-leading email security and perpetual archiving, full virtualisation on a high availability platform as well as continuous site-to-site replication of backup and disaster recovery data. This, coupled with standard security offerings such as managed anti-virus and patch management, covering nearly 100 vendors, has seen uptime and reliability of services, now secured.
Bob Wilson, Chambers Director at 1 Crown Office Row, said “an excellent IT infrastructure is essential for the efficient running of any large Chambers. We currently have 114 barristers located in London and Brighton all of whom need to be able to access reliable, secure and fast IT services wherever they are. I am confident that the new systems being introduced by Sprout IT are achieving this.”
Matt Torrens, Director of SproutIT, commented "We see our partnership with 1 Crown Office Row as a huge privilege. The new infrastructure provides a fantastic platform on which 1COR can build and evolve their network, and its capabilities. We look forward to providing the strategic advice and solutions that provide a competitive edge as well reliable and compliant systems, alongside outstanding IT Support for day-to-day computing issues. The addition of 1COR to our client base, in the face of stiff competition during the tender process, reaffirms our unrivalled market reputation - these are exciting times."
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