With over 180 members of staff spanning 7 offices in the south of the UK, Gardner Leader have established themselves as the go-to law firm to provide high quality legal work to their clients. Their talented team of solicitors pride themselves on understanding their clients’ priorities and delivering practical and excellent value legal solutions.
Based in Essex, Birkett Long LLP, with offices in Chelmsford, Basildon, Colchester, and (more recently) Malta, chose the SpeechWrite 360 cloud solution after a comprehensive review of the dictation market. The company’s existing dictation solution was not fit for purpose with the ‘cloud-first’ strategy that the firm had adopted. “We were 60% there with our cloud strategy and remote working when the pandemic hit, having already switched to Office 365 and issued our employees with desktops and laptops. There were a few applications left to move to the cloud, and dictation was one of them.”
Maxwell Hodge is a solicitor practice with 8 Offices across Merseyside and the Wirral. Being locally based means teamwork is essential for the firm, ensuring support is provided across all branches at all times. The firm’s former analogue dictation system had become outdated and inefficient, and it was becoming more and more difficult to get replacement hardware or even to have the existing hardware repaired.
Ringrose Law provides legal advice and services throughout Lincolnshire and Newark. With five offices spanning the county, they provide personal and commercial law in various legal areas. Although the company was already using a legacy cloud dictation system with a mobile app, some distinct limitations led them to seek a more effective solution. This included not having a document audit trail and visibility of progress on the mobile device.
In business since the 1840s, specialising in property since the 1970s, and even creating the legal documentation for one of the first housing associations; Croftons is a leading, specialist housing and commercial real estate law firm based in Manchester. In business since the 1840s, specialising in property since the 1970s, and even creating the legal documentation for one of the first housing associations; Croftons is a leading, specialist housing and commercial real estate law firm based in Manchester.
Salehs are a growing law firm based in Manchester, offering legal support for businesses and consumers alike. The firm has recently grown through the successful acquisition of Solis Law and the sustained growth of other departments, notably Commercial Property and Commercial Finance. Salehs also specialise in Real Estate and Residential Property with a combined team of 27 fee earners and 15 staff in the admin support team.
Set up in 2001, The Child Law Partnership is a family law firm who initially focused exclusively on children’s cases and Social Services. After expanding, the practice now deals with a broad range of family issues involving separation, divorce, disputes concerning children and family finances. With 27 staff and 6 offices, they are one of the largest specialist and family law firms in the South East.
Abensons Solicitors, a professional law firm based in Liverpool, with over 40 lawyers, paralegals and support staff, was looking for a means of easily upgrading its old-fashioned dictation system. The firm offers a broad range of legal services and has a correspondingly high demand for fast turnaround of a huge number of documents which need to be typed up on a daily basis by the secretarial team. SpeechWrite Digital, a company that specialises in providing digital dictation services, was able to upgrade the firm’s analogue system to a cost-effective, state-of-the-art solution.
Wansbroughs Solicitors is a law firm that serves clients across England and Wales. Its legal experts have extensive experience in providing services to a range of commercial and private clients. Originally part of Wansbroughs in Bristol, the practice has been independent since 1989. It has developed a strong client base and a reputation for conducting work more commonly associated with much larger practices. Its specialists have extensive experience, both locally and in practices in London, Bristol and elsewhere, so can address all aspects of law.
Leading law firm Aaron & Partners LLP has recently upgraded its digital dictation technology to include voice recognition software. This will significantly reduce the company’s reliance on transcription and enable the practice to process documents even more quickly and efficiently.
When Leamington Spa-based solicitors Blythe Liggins discovered its analogue dictation and transcription system was becoming outdated, the only option was to look at upgrading to digital. In a modern age where phones and tablets are as sophisticated as computers, using tapes to record dictation for transcription had begun to seem slightly archaic.
With help from SpeechWrite Digital, South Wales solicitors’ practice Everett & Tomlin and Lloyd & Pratt (ETLP) has recently adopted a complete digital workflow solution to incorporate remote working. The company has installed Philips SpeechMike Premium USB digital recorders and SpeechWrite Enterprise workflow management software across three offices, which has both updated and enhanced its administrative systems.
SpeechWrite Digital was recently commissioned by solicitors Broadbents to modernise and maximise connectivity across the law firm’s four regional offices. The company’s legal team advise clients on all aspects of modern law practices, including criminal defence, family law, conveyancing, wills and probate. Emerging technology led the firm to consider the improvements that new developments could provide to its customers.
In collaboration with SpeechWrite Digital, Redcar-based law firm Cygnet Law has recently upgraded its workflow system to increase efficiency and distribute clerical workload more evenly across its secretarial team. Following an in-depth system review, SpeechWrite Digital recommended and installed a digital legal dictation solution that has transformed the production of typed correspondence for the firm’s 14 fee-earners and support staff.
Birmingham law firm Coley & Tilley recently engaged the expertise of digital dictation specialist SpeechWrite Digital, to facilitate an upgrade of its dictation and transcription methods. Established over 100 years ago and sited in the hub of Birmingham’s legal district, Coley & Tilley has seen many changes to the law industry, but still relies on a great deal of author-to-secretary dictation to generate client correspondence.
With 100 staff and offices in Cardiff, London, Bristol and Bridgend, Berry Smith LLP recently required a digital dictation solution that enabled fee-earner' law firm remote working off-site with clients. SpeechWrite Digital carried out a technical consultation and systems audit, and recommended a complete workflow overhaul, providing an adaptable solution to the needs of an expanding business.
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