“I’m not one to complain, but yet another Windows rollout, the underwhelming digital dictation project and a further six months of semi-comatose knowledge management committee meetings just didn’t cut it.” The old adage that there is many a true word spoken in jest, certainly applies to Legal IT’s regular diarist, the IT man.

True, digital dictation is hardly the most exciting project for an IT director and neither is it going to make the techies jump for joy. But, nevertheless, the past year-and-a-half have seen a bonanza for the vendors of this wholeheartedly sensible technology and nowhere more so than in the legal sector.