http://www.documentdirect.co.uk Outsourced Digital Dictation, Audio Transcription and Typing Services Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:12:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's hardly surprising that given the current 'threats' to the legal sector that many firms are considering mergers as a way of future business development.  Andrew Otterburn's survey reported on in the Law Society Gazette confirms that the sector will remain active, and perhaps rumours of collective demise are rather ... http://www.documentdirect.co.uk/merging-law-firms-with-merging-technology/ This group is all about supporting Document Direct's clients and secretaries and to bring together a totally remote community of workers. We aim through this group to enable and encourage discussion about all the issues affecting business services and operations/support people in your firm.  Whilst it's great to receive compliments for ... http://www.documentdirect.co.uk/linkedin-group/ Beat the winter gloom, have an enjoyable evening with friends, raise funds for a good cause and improve your wellbeing as a result.  All you have to do is think of a group of friends and invite them to Come Dine @ Mine on Saturday February 5th. They'll each make a donation ... http://www.documentdirect.co.uk/charitable-support-for-clatterbridge/ Answering your calls, how you want, when you want, 24 hours a day by your All Day PA. To some clients we are a remote reception desk, answering and routing incoming calls. Others see us as their outsourced call centre, handling their customer support queries 24/7It doesn't matter what volume of ... http://www.documentdirect.co.uk/new-service-outsource-switchboard-to-your-all-day-pa/ Whilst access to our servers will remain open at all times, ie can send us dictation and access will not be blocked, we will a skeleton staff working on the bank holidays. We will not, therefore be able to guarantee our usual fast turnaround times. If you do have an urgent ... http://www.documentdirect.co.uk/christmas-opening-hours/ DGB Solicitors, the Wirral based niche defence litigation firm, has been shortlisted for the Law Society Excellence Awards in the Marketing and Business Development category. Principal, Debbie Black formed DGB in 2003, specialising in the defence of personal injury claims, in particular marine related injury claims. Since then Debbie has developed a ... http://www.documentdirect.co.uk/law-society-excellence-awards/ I suppose having your office in an old air raid shelter or a beach hut has more benefits than we can imagine, especially when the weather is good.  This article filmed by Meridian TV demonstrates how people are using technology to their advantage.  There is a saying that necessity is the mother of ... http://www.documentdirect.co.uk/remote-worker/ The biggest difference with a good digital dictation system is that each separate document can be a separate dictation file on a computer network. Imagine having hundreds of tapes, each containing one letter or one file note and each marked with the file name and order of priority.  Each item is ... http://www.documentdirect.co.uk/working-smarter/ The diagram below shows a typical structure of a law firm. The dotted lines show the flow of work, that is dictation and transcription between the departments and secretaries.  The problem with this diagram is that it is very difficult for the secretaries to share their workload. You might ask, why ... http://www.documentdirect.co.uk/working-harder/ What will determine our success is not how fast we receive information.  It will be how quickly we can respond to it. We can find the information we need with a few clicks of a button, at any time and from any place with the increased usability of mobile technology. Life ... http://www.documentdirect.co.uk/fast-response/