Comments on: Dictation – Dying out or recession buster? http://www.jasonplant.co.uk/2009/09/dictation-dying-out-or-recession-buster/ A law blog written by someone from IT or an IT blog written by someone who works for a law firm Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:34:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Richard Gadsden http://www.jasonplant.co.uk/2009/09/dictation-dying-out-or-recession-buster/comment-page-1/#comment-3305 Richard Gadsden Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:02:29 +0000 http://www.jasonplant.co.uk/2009/09/dictation-dying-out-or-recession-buster/#comment-3305 I think you might have missed another one. Word processors are not tremendously easy to use, especially for the typically complex documents lawyers produce. It's a lot easier to intensively train a small number of secretaries/DPU techs to deal with the complexity of using a word processor in documents and then to pass documents to them via digital dictation than to train lawyers (who really don't care) in these skills. ... and if you think "Word is simple" then you should try prepping a document for real without all the style sheets and other customizations that most law firms run with. I think you might have missed another one.

Word processors are not tremendously easy to use, especially for the typically complex documents lawyers produce. It’s a lot easier to intensively train a small number of secretaries/DPU techs to deal with the complexity of using a word processor in documents and then to pass documents to them via digital dictation than to train lawyers (who really don’t care) in these skills.

… and if you think “Word is simple” then you should try prepping a document for real without all the style sheets and other customizations that most law firms run with.

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