Intelligent Workflow Advantages Prompt Roll Out of WinScribe Digital Dictation at CMS Cameron McKenna

CMS Cameron McKenna LLP, the top 10 city-based firm with over 600 UK fee earners, has achieved significantly increased work sharing after rolling-out the WinScribe digital dictation system to its London and Bristol offices. The system, provided by the UKs exclusive WinScribe Platinum Partner, SRC, was initially trialled in the firms 100 strong Real Estate Department.

London (PRWEB) June 25, 2005 -- CMS Cameron McKenna LLP, the top 10 city-based firm with over 600 UK fee earners, has achieved significantly increased work sharing after rolling-out the WinScribe digital dictation system to its London and Bristol offices. The system, provided by the UKs exclusive WinScribe Platinum Partner, SRC, was initially trialled in the firms 100 strong Real Estate Department.

Commenting on the impact of the SRC WinScribe solution, Philip Rooke, IT Director at CMS Cameron McKenna LLP said, WinScribes Intelligent Work Management system, which automatically manages the distribution and prioritisation of work, is a crucial factor in improving the efficiency of the firms working practices."

WinScribe enables the flow of work to be defined according to the user, type of work, team, location, and other criteria. This means that in most instances the administrative burden of identifying who should transcribe a recording is removed from our fee earners and handled automatically by the system, significantly streamlining the process."

Whereas the other digital dictation systems we considered following responses to our ITT replicated the existing analogue tape process, WinScribe was the only system that allowed us to introduce this real process change and meet our team working and utilisation objectives," Mr Rooke continued.

The roll-out of WinScribe has also had a positive impact in terms of flexibility for the fee earning staff. With the WinScribe systems support for remote working proving to be very successful, fee earners can now submit dictations directly from anywhere in the world over a mobile or fixed-line telephone or by using the new Olympus DS-4000 handheld digital dictation device," said Carol Frost, Head of Administration, CMS Cameron McKenna LLP.

This additional functionality, coupled with the smooth introduction of the system supported by SRCs excellent project management, training and support services, has meant that the project will not only increase efficiency but has been warmly welcomed by users."

Chris Hart, SRC CEO said, When selecting a digital dictation system, law firms can either choose to replicate their existing analogue tape process and realise only limited return-on-investment or maximise efficiency improvements by deploying a true digital dictation workflow system such as WinScribe; we are delighted that a firm of CMS Cameron McKennas calibre and size is receiving the significant additional benefits of the SRC WinScribe solution."

CMS Cameron McKenna LLP is one of the most recent law firms to roll out the SRC WinScribe solution; other prominent firms include Beachcroft Wansbroughs, Ricksons, Ward Hadaway, Dickinson Dees, Hill Dickinson, Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, Berrymans Lace Mawer, Lupton Fawcett, Irwin Mitchell and Morgan Cole. SRC is WinScribes exclusive UK Platinum Partner.

About CMS Cameron McKenna LLP
•CMS Cameron McKenna is a UK and international law firm advising businesses, financial institutions, public sector bodies and governments.
•The firm is ranked in the top ten in Europe with 136 partners, and some 800 legal advisers.
•Its international network of offices makes it one of the largest firms in Central & Eastern Europe. The firm also has an office in Hong Kong. See www.law-now.com for details.
CMS Cameron McKenna is a member of CMS, the alliance of European law firms providing businesses with legal and tax services across Europe and beyond.

The firm converted in the UK to LLP from 1 May 2005. For more details on the firms conversion see www.law-now.com

About SRC
As the UKs longest established provider of professional speech technology solutions, SRC has more experience than any other digital dictation or speech recognition vendor. SRCs mission is to ensure its customers achieve cost savings and productivity improvements through the delivery, implementation and support of leading speech technologies.

The company provides consultancy services for speech-based technologies together with delivery, implementation and support services. SRCs teams combine years of industry experience with the ability and commitment to deliver solutions that exceed customers objectives. SRC only partners with best-of-breed, global technology providers, including WinScribe, Olympus, Philips, ScanSoft and IBM. The company is the UKs exclusive WinScribe Platinum Partner and in 2004 won the ScanSoft Outstanding Achievement award for speech recognition solutions.

SRC is privately owned and backed leading financial institution, Cazenove & Co.

Media Contacts:
Richard Whale
Head of Marketing, SRC
Tel: 020 7471 0127
richardw@src.co.uk

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