Dickinson Dees rollsout WinScribe

London, March 1, 2004 - UK law firm Dickinson Dees joins a rapidly growing number of firms that have recently adopted the WinScribe digital dictation solution developed in New Zealand by Takapuna based WinScribe Inc.

Top 50 law firm Dickinson Dees has invested in WinScribe digital dictation workflow technology from UK sales partner SRC in a deal which will see up to 420 users across the firm’s two offices in Newcastle and the Tees Valley by the end of 2004.

Dickinson Dees' Head of Administration, David Nicholson, said the initial deployment to 100 staff across the law firm – one of the largest in the north of England – will replace an analogue tape dictation system and deliver greater flexibility for lawyers to create dictations both in and away from the office.

Dickinson Dees Director of IT, Simon Earnshaw, said that 130 lawyers already had the capability to remotely access company servers using their laptops and the digital dictation system added the final piece of the office technology puzzle.

“With the addition of WinScribe’s digital dictation workflow to our current remote working solution, lawyers will now have full access to all essential services, including secretarial support. It will eliminate the overheads and problems associated with sending support staff to work on specific projects, since the WinScribe digital dictation system means that dictations can be sent easily to the most appropriate secretary for transcription, wherever the secretary is located.”

Mr Earnshaw added that SRC’s experience and WinScribe’s interoperability with other technologies were key factors in the firm’s selection process.

“Dickinson Dees considered a number of suppliers but settled on WinScribe and SRC because of its proven track record and the plain fact that WinScribe is the most mature digital workflow technology on the market,” he said.

WinScribe’s International Marketing Manager, Dale Matravers, said “The legal sector is a huge growth market internationally for WinScribe. Our traditional markets have been Health, Law Enforcement and Surveying. Our efforts to expand the market into the legal sector have really paid off”.

WinScribe is marketed throughout Europe from WinScribe UK based in London, and through a network of sales partners in Australasia, South Africa, and the America’s which are handled from New Zealand. “WinScribe is available in English, German and French, so WinScribe UK is better suited to supporting the product with their multi-lingual support and training staff” says Dale Matravers. “Due to time-zone differences, we will shortly be opening a sales and support office in Chicago to better service our American sales partners” he added.

Further information about Digital Dictation is available from WinScribe. For more information, please visit the WinScribe website: www.winscribe.com

 

About Dickinson Dees
Dickinson Dees is the North of England’s leading law firm with 61 partners and, altogether, 599 staff. The firm covers the full range of Legal Services including Banking & Commercial Lending, Chemicals, Commercial, E-Commerce, Insurance Litigation, Financial Planning, Tax, Construction & Engineering, Employment Information Technology, Environment & Safety, Agriculture and Corporate Recovery.

Dickinson Dees is committed to the continued development and success of the region and has now established an additional permanent office in Camden House on the prestigious Teesdale site at Stockton. Covering the same broad disciplines as its Newcastle office, this additional office provides the full range of first class support services for business, industry and public sector.

Dickinson Dees is a well connected professional services organisation with a national reputation for the quality of work which it handles. Dickinson Dees is regulated by the Law Society and the Financial Services Authority.

About SRC
SRC is the European leader in delivering cost savings and productivity improvements through turning speech technologies into solutions. The company provides professional services for digital dictation and speech technologies, delivers speech-based customer contact services, and develops and hosts high-quality speech applications on its carrier grade hosting platform.

SRC’s industry experts ensure successful delivery and operation of solutions which achieve customers’ business objectives. SRC partners with best-of-breed desktop and telephony speech technology providers, including IBM, ScanSoft, WinScribe, Nortel Networks, Nuance, SpeechWorks, Rhetorical and VoiceGenie. The company has also formed an alliance with CAP Gemini Ernest & Young to deliver speech recognition solutions in the customer contact centre environment.

SRC is privately owned and backed by leading financial institutions including 3i group and Cazenove & Co. For more information visit: www.src.co.uk