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London, UK – June 1st, 2007 – BigHand Digital Dictation has been implemented at 5 of the UK’s leading firms of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys. The award winning BigHand3 workflow solution has been tailored to reflect specific cover number and document type information required to profile each new dictation.

The customised profiling of dictations and seamless integration with leading document management systems optimises the cycle of dictation and transcription, improving document turnaround times and removing backlogs. The increased flexibility of workflow enables secretaries to share work between teams or departments, taking advantage of available capacity to ensure critical deadlines are never missed. BigHand3’s advanced remote working functionality enables both fee earners and secretaries to work away from the office, thereby increasing efficiency at home and on the move.

Patent Attorney firms to have implemented BigHand technology include:

• Forresters
• Mewburn Ellis LLP
• Page White & Farrer
• Reddie & Grose
• Wynne-Jones, Lainé & James LLP

Nick White, IT Manager, Page White & Farrer comments:

''We moved a section of our firm to another building and were able to use this to run a proof-of-concept project on digital dictation. With the welcome help of BigHand's technical support the installation and training went smoothly and our staff were up and running in no time. The secretaries all agreed that voice clarity was a big improvement, and that they are able to see clearly the length of a dictation and since each dictation requires a title, are able to see what it concerns.

From the fee earners' point of view, they are now able to see the progress of any given dictation and enables them to send a dictation across the building from their desk, without having to deliver a tape. Previously, dictations were sometimes lost due to faulty tapes, which no longer happens and the reporting tool facilitates organising workflow between secretaries.''

-ENDS-

Contact:
Jo Beckwith, BigHand. Website: www.bighand.com Email: jo.beckwith@bighand.com Tel: +44 (0)20 7940 5946

About BigHand

Based out of Chicago, London and Sydney BigHand is the leading digital dictation vendor in the global legal sector, maintaining the five largest sites at international law firms and with more legal installations in total than all other suppliers combined. BigHand3 was nominated as “Best of Breed System of the Year” at the Legal Technology Awards 2007. BigHand was named as the fastest growing legal software developer in The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 league tables for both 2005 and 2006. BigHand was also recognized by Deloitte as one of the 500 fastest growing software vendors in Europe in 2006. Additionally BigHand was voted "Best Legal Office Technology System 2004" from votes from over 14,000 lawyers and IT managers across the legal sector at the LOTIE Awards. BigHand's leading product also won the Society for Computers & Law IT Award in 2003 for "the most outstanding application of information technology to the law". Further information is available at http://www.bighand.com