BigHand systems are helping increase profitability
July 24, 2008
The current economic climate is an opportunity for firms to look at their systems and ways to improve profitability and save costs.
Moving from stage 1 digital dictation, the simple transportation of dictation from fee earner to secretary, and onto stage 2, managing workflow, means firms can allocate their dictation to a larger pool of available secretaries. The “Big Brother” type technology means all work is visible and gone of the days when a secretary would sit and twiddle fingers with nothing to do. The benefit of workflow systems means it is now possible to analyse the type of work being dictated by individual fee earners and how individual secretaries perform.
BigHand’s recent press release gives some amazing statistics from some of their larger clients, for example, Venters Solicitors have saved £50,000 in only 12 months.
You can download BigHand’s press release by clicking here.
Of course, it goes without saying that being able to outsource typing will bring a huge cost benefit to firms. A good legal secretary is an unqualified fee earner and outsourcing the typing not only helps those secretaries be more productive but also improves services to client with faster turnaround times of documents.
Click here to have your own free trial of outsourcing.
Firmstyle and Practical Law Templates
July 2, 2008
Did you know that you can have your own corporate style applied to Practical Law templates?
We work with our clients to help them achieve the best professional image for them. It’s professional, easier to use, and presents a great image when your document templates, letters, faxes, memos, set out with a consistent font, font size, paragraph spacing. It’s also possible to have the same formatting applied to legal precedents and templates supplied from Practical Law.
We help you decide how you want your documents to look. Here are some factors to consider:
- Underlining never looks good in faxes
- Most companies use bold for emphasis
- Too many capital letters are hard on the eye
- A serif font is easier to read
- Single line spacing is great for saving the planet but line and a half spacing is much easier for drafting documents
Your Practical Law Templates can also contain your own company logo on the frontsheet of all of your documents - so you look like you’ve invested a million dollars in keeping your knowledge and know-how up to date.
If you would like more information on how we can help you create your own templates then click here and let us know.
