Leading legal productivity software provider, BigHand, and the largest legal solutions provider in Africa for Aderant and iManage, Co-Operative Computing (COOP), form partnership to bring BigHand voice and document creation technology to African legal professionals.

BigHand today announced it has signed Co-Operative Computing as a Value added Reseller partnership in South Africa. Founded in 1991 the specialist IT services company Co-Operative Computing (Pty.) Ltd has firmly established themselves in the local Legal arena with a number of leading African and Global law firm customers. The company supplies software and supports for a full range of applications to improve legal clients’ operations and professional services.

Enhancing document creation and management with digital dictation, mobility applications and Speech Recognition, the BigHand productivity software suite is answering Co-Operative Computing’s legal clients’ needs for increased efficiency in legal services via best-of-breed applications.

“Having worked in the legal sector for more than 20 years we have seen a huge change in legal professionals’ business environment over the last 5 years. The increasing digitalisation of working places requires law firms and their employees to become more time efficient, cost-effective and mobile. BigHand software has helped more than 2,500 firms globally to improve document production processes and unlock hidden efficiencies in their workforce. We are very excited about the opportunity to couple our market leading technology with the specialised services and local expertise Co-Operative Computing provides.” Paol Desforges, Country Manager EMEA, BigHand.

Matteo Pagani, Chief Operating Officer at COOP: “Improving efficiency and profitability in the Legal and professional services sector, is our passion. We are honoured to add BigHand to our suite of offerings and look forward to a long term partnership.”

About COOP Co-Operative Computing (Pty.) Ltd., is a specialist IT services company, firmly established in the Legal and Professional services arena. Co-Operative Computing is Africa’s premier legal IT consulting firm with over 25 years in the industry.

The company offers a comprehensive service, providing solutions to meet all its clients’ IT requirements and, in particular:
Specialised Practice Management Applications (Aderant Expert)
Specialist Document Management Systems (iManage Work)
Specialised reporting and KPI dashboards
Legal pricing tools
Personalised Training and Support