Mobile dictation on a Windows PDA
November 18, 2008
Your multiple-use mobile phone can do so much more than make phone calls, and deliver and receive emails. Now your PDA can be a digital dictation device with Winscribe’s Pocket Author software.
Download the free software by clicking here. Click on RUN and the application will be intalled on your PC and linked to Active Sync. When you next connect your mobile phone to your PC the dictation program will be installed on it.
You will need some magical pieces of information from us to have the program connect to our system and get you started.
Contact us now to have your free account set up.
The latest solicitors to outsource dictation
November 18, 2008
Goodmans Solicitors are the latest law firm to use outsourcing to save overhead and increase the profitability of their work.
Lynn Evans, Practice Director, says “We’re making the most of our investment in the digital dictation system we have installed and outsourcing to Document Direct has helped the business run smoothly during times of staff shortage and heavy workloads.”
Law practices are making small changes can have huge savings, often slashing overhead by as much as 50%. Investing in a digital dictation system doesn’t have to be expensive as we can give our clients our dictation system free of charge.
Read more client testimonials here.
Nationwide Solicitors Alliance grows
October 31, 2008
We’re delighted that the Nationwide Solicitors Alliance is growing. The latest firms to sign up to the Alliance are Kelly & Co in Leeds, Edward Hands & Lewis in Loughborough and Binghams in Leicester.
Tracy Thompson and Steve Battarbee are presenting the Alliance to Surrey law firms at an event in Cobham on 10th November.
All Nationwide Solicitors Alliance members receive 10% discount from Document Direct’s outsource typing services.
Nationwide Solicitors Alliance - outsourcing and digital dictation an added benefit
October 21, 2008
The inaugural meeting of Nationwide Solicitors Alliance (NSA) on 16 October discussed the challenges faced by small and medium sized firms: competing for commoditised services, rising cost of PI premiums and brokerage of work by panels to name just a few.
It may sound all doom and gloom but two people, Steve Battarbee and Tracy Thompson, who put their heart and soul into forming the NSA, have come up with some very real and positive answers to these challenges. They’re taking on the “big gun high volume firms” with hi-tech marketing and joint initiatives, they’re working with insurance companies to reduce PI premiums and they’ve recruited a support network of valuable sponsors to help them and their members.
Document Direct is supporting NSA members to be more profitable, work smarter and maintain their high standards and excellent service to their clients. Installing a digital dictation system will do three things:
- make distributing and prioritising the dictation easier, work is produced more efficiently, by fewer secretaries;
- make dictation is easy to outsource which is less costly than in-sourcing (bringing in temps and recruiting).
- make working from home, from a mobile or any internet computer possible and provide a real flexible workplace and flexible work times.
But people don’t like change! We understand this and work with lawyers - and their secretaries - so that a digital dictation system and outsourcing are integrated into current working systems and practices as painlessly as possible.
If you already have a digital dictation system then it’s more than likely compatible with outsourcing to Document Direct.
If you don’t already have a digital dictation system then we can advise on the best and most cost effective solution for you and your secretaries. However, if you don’t want to spend money and invest in your own dictation system, then why not make use of our system free of charge. You can still outsource your dictation, maintaining the highest support and service to your clients, with the minimum in-house secretarial cover.
At the very least, Document Direct can help you reduce your spend on temporary cover for holidays and sickness as we offer a pay as you use service with no minimum subscription.
All NSA members will receive an additional 10% discount on our services - simply quote your membership number to us.
Contact jayne.smith@documentdirect.co.uk to arrange a demonstration or a free trial.
Confidential outsource typing services
September 9, 2008
Loading ...Outsourcing has received some bad press in the past. Using typing services offshore has proved very unpopular, especially as we have a very willing and able workforce on home turf. One of the reasons for outsourcing offshore has not been related to cost but an assurance of confidentiality.
What more can we do to ensure confidence from our local workforce? At Document Direct we ask each of our typists to sign Confidentiality Agreements and refer our clients to our terms of business which set out our position with regard to confidentiality. Should we go a step further and have our candidates CRB checked? Answer our poll and let us know.
Nationwide Solicitors Alliance
August 29, 2008
The legal profession’s newest influential organisation, Nationwide Solicitors Alliance (NSA), launches on 1st October. The NSA will provide a framework within which forward thinking small and medium sized law firms can work together to market their practices locally, improve the home buying process and help maintain and improve their share of the increasingly competitive legal services sector.
Benefits to member firms will include:
- agreed and standardised conveyancing documentation within local groups, reducing the transaction times, increasing profit which in turn benefits solicitors, estate agents and homebuyers
- a lead generating system providing enquiries directly from the public to NSA member firms using intelligent telecoms in residential conveyancing, HIPs, wills and probate, family, debt and employment law matters
- free telephone calls to ALL solicitors, licensed conveyancers, barristers, land registries, national and local law societies and courts. Free calls between solicitors and supporting estate agents using the NSA HIP for “local” referrals
- access to a referral network which enables NSA member firms to refer to each other directly, provding real control on the part of the referrer of the destination of the work without the requirement for “panel management” and all that often entails
- an NSA HIP which is designed to encourage estate agents to nominate an NSA member firm to deal with the legal title check, so optimising opportunities for LOCAL law firms,
- NSA Recruitment, providing a cost effective alternative to expensive recruitment agencies.
We’re delighted to announce our sponsorship the Nationwide Solicitors Alliance. All NSA members will receive a 10% introductory discount in addition to their outsource typing free trial.
