Here at OutSec, we are often asked: how can I improve my legal digital dictation and aid my secretary or typist? So here are our top tips for better legal dictation: 1. Silence is Golden Background noises can make transcribing digital dictations difficult. This is just a fact So it is useful to ensure you have the …
As any Practice Manager or Senior Partner knows the need for temporary legal transcriptionists or secretaries can easily fluctuate over time. Whilst we know that staff are likely to take the majority of their holiday entitlement in the summer months. Unfortunately, it is harder for a law firm to predict unexpected absences or illnesses. We …
RBS’ Legal Benchmarking Report from 2019 stated that on average, a full-time solicitor attains 1,000 chargeable hours per annum. Whilst the average had not increased year on year, a report in The Guardian seemed to suggest that lawyers were working increased hours often outside of office hours (and increasingly at weekends). This year, it is clear from Macintyre …
It is fair to say that Barristers and their chambers have started to move with the times and are adapting and embracing different ways of working. This includes outsourcing work to businesses that support them. When you think of outsourcing work, we often only think about the savings that will be achieved by getting the work …
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