A LEADING West Midlands legal services provider, which has county branches, is investing more than £1m in state-of-the-art IT infrastructure as part of expansion plans. to hit £12m fees in 2018.

Talbots Law, which employs more than 200 people at six regional offices across the region, has worked with EBC Group to complete the installation of a new private cloud accessed Virtual Desk Interface (VDI) that will deliver a number of customer service improvements.

The system provides a greater level of security, the opportunity to handle more data faster and enhanced flexibility for staff to hot-desk.

Mary Mocklow, the firm's chief executive, said: "Our ambition is to become the legal provider of choice for the wider Midlands and this investment – the largest we have ever made in IT – will make us more efficient and deliver even better levels of service to our growing client base,.

“The private cloud offers more flexibility for our staff and the opportunity for them to work across any of our offices - not to mention when on-site with companies or during time in court. The new system will also allow us to centralise our expanding Wyre Forest operation into our recently refurbished Kidderminster office.”