Becker & Poliakoff's mission to provide cutting-edge digital workflow technologies did not end with a failed Winscribe pilot. The quest continued. And, based on heightened awareness to find a partner with strong support and project management expertise in legal digital dictation, the firm selected BigHand... http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202432736967&hbxlogin=1
Busy legal practice Lind, Jensen, Sullivan & Peterson P.A. wanted to change their tape based dictation system to a digital one so they could streamline their workflow, reduce costs and speed up transcribing case notes.
Commercial law firm Freehills has created a centralised digital document production centre to deliver better service levels to external clients and its lawyers.
McCarthy Tétrault had a problem. Many of its lawyers rely on dictation devices, but with analog technology quickly becoming obsolete, McCarthy's IT department sought a product designed for this century rather than the last one…
ABL deployed BigHand for BlackBerry smartphones to give their lawyers the ability to dictate documents, record calendar notes and keep verbal notes-to-self from their BlackBerry smartphones.
Russell Kennedy wanted to replace the traditional recording devices lawyers use to record their case notes and letters for transcription with a solution that took advantage of the comprehensive capabilities of the BlackBerry® smartphones already used in the firm.
Linklaters became the first magic circle firm to implement a large-scale international adoption of DDS technology in 2007, incorporating a total of 3,200 users. The scale of this project makes it the largest implementation of digital dictation workflow software in the global legal sector. Dave Bennett, Head of Information Systems Development at Linklaters, explains the cultural and technical challenges of implementing a firm wide system of this scale, and details the business benefits experienced as a result.
LG is a business law firm advising clients around the world. Its clients include multinational corporations from a wide range of industries including international banks, financial institutions and wealthy individuals with global investments. Jason Petrucci, IT Director at Lawrence Graham explains how the deployment of BigHand Mobile (BlackBerry® Edition) to the firm’s 240 lawyers has quickly delivered return on investment and improved client service.
By Liz Brown, Director of Information Technology, Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin
Today, our firm, Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin can report a 300% improvement in document turnaround times and a forecasted saving in administrative expenses of $1500 per attorney per year, through use of BigHand Digital Dictation software. When you add the increased mobility for attorneys, and overall popularity with employees, the BigHand project is certainly one of the most successful IT projects of the last 12 months.
Although Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. (“WHD”) is based in the Midwest (offices in Milwaukee, Madison, and Manitowoc, WI), the firm’s clients and their business interests extend around the world, challenging the firm to continually create higher standards for client delivery, as a function of increasing staff efficiency, firm collaboration, and enhanced mobility. The firm’s IT group is a 14-member centralized team that is charged with the responsibility of pursuing value-added technology solutions for the staff and its clients. With this overriding mission in mind they began their pursuit of selecting and rolling out a new dictation technology to their staff.
Top 250 firm Brachers identified the process of dictation and transcription as a significant area in which they could streamline productivity, thereby improving the efficiency of all staff across the firm. They were using a first generation digital dictation system, known as a ‘standalone’ system, which was starting to impact the efficiency of the practice and quality of work. Sharon Senior, IT Trainer and Project Manager at Brachers, explains the decision to replace the standalone system with the advanced digital dictation workflow system BigHand3.
In late 2005 AKD Prinsen Van Wijmen, one of the leading law firms in The Netherlands, found their old tape-based dictation system was proving increasingly ineffective and expensive. The tape machines were unreliable, their ‘moving parts’ often broke down during critical work and they were costly to maintain.
Mike Benton, Finance Director, at Churston Heard explores how the property firm was frustrated by lost or wiped tapes and aging analogue tape machines, then installed BigHand’s digital dictation workflow software across the organisation and made substantial cost savings.
Chris Simmons, IT Director at Campbell Hooper, illustrates how their 26 partner commercial law firm based in London, realised huge savings of £400,000 over a 3 year period. Campbell Hooper have directly attributed the savings to the installation of BigHand Digital Dictation software.
An Australian case study focusing on a BigHand Digital Dictation software installation at Ebsworth & Ebsworth. Work sharing between the Melbourne and Sydney offices, along with quicker document turnaround overall, are just two of the benefits experienced by the law firm.
Steve Savage, IT Manager at Gosschalks Solicitors in Hull, gives an overview of his 100 user digital dictation project in March 2004. ROI and key technical issues are specifically identified.
Charles Christian, award winning IT journalist and industry commentator, visits Wedlake Bell Solicitors in June 2003. He interviews management responsible for technology, human resources, finance and the firm as a whole to assess how digital dictation has effected these areas.
Chris White, IT Director at Ashurst Morris Crisp, reports on how their 800 user roll out was achieved and lists some of the benefits they have experienced as a result. September 2002.
Jan Durant, Head of IT at Lewis Silkin Solicitors, analyses the key issues for management consideration when implementing digital dictation in September 2002
