City firm Ashurst Morris Crisp announced on Monday (7 January) a firm-wide rollout of digital dictation software in a move that the IT supplier, BigHand, claims is the largest ever rollout of digital speech technology in the UK’s legal industry.

The system, TotalSpeech, is already installed across Ashursts’ property, litigation and tax departments, with 300 people using the system. The firm plans to extend the rollout to an additional 700 users by the end of March.