Are you an attorney who spends too much time typing documents? There is an easier and faster way. Legal transcription companies such as iMedat can free up your time and increase your productivity by helping with your documentation chores. It’s based on the simple fact that people can dictate faster than they can type – and much faster than they can write handwritten notes.
Dictating your letters, notes, and other documents to an audio file rather than typing them out:
- Saves you time – shifting some of the clerical work away from you and your team so you can focus more on your specialized areas of expertise.
- Saves you money – because paying the attorneys in your office their equivalent hourly wage to do clerical work does not make financial sense. Transcriptionists don’t charge attorney rates, and can get the work done faster.
- Can boost billings – add up the amount of time you and your fellow attorneys spend in a day generating written documents. Then think about the number of new clients you could help if you spent that time with them instead.
- Increases productivity – not only do you feel like you’re getting more done with your day, you actually are!
Legal transcription companies such as iMedat can help streamline your office so that your documentation gets done faster. That means you and your legal team have more time to focus on what you do best: see and serve clients.
How Transcriptions Help Attorneys Save Time and Use Their Time More Efficiently at Work
Imagine you’re at the dentist and after your checkup, he or she spends 15 minutes after you leave cleaning and sanitizing the office. It’s important work of course – the suite needs to be sanitized before the next patient – but is this really a good use of the dentist’s time? Couldn’t the office find someone who will clean the exam suite for less money than the highly specialized dentist? Not to mention, wouldn’t the dentist end up seeing fewer patients every day – and therefore make less money overall– if they cleaned their own dental suites?
Of course, that’s why dentists have assistants and office staff – to take care of these and other common office tasks so they can focus on their highly specialized skills.
Attorneys face similar situations every day.
If you’re an attorney, you know the hours add up for you, too.Paperwork. Documentation. Organizing all those little pieces of information into one coherent case file.
Have you ever stopped to think how much time you spend organizing your written materials? Documenting case information, writing down notes from client interviews, even jotting down ideas that come to you throughout the day?
Switching to a dictation system and hiring the services of a legal transcription company such as iMedat can save you hours of time so you get more accomplished every day.
Legal Transcription Companies Help You Focus on Clients, Not Documents
The biggest part of the problem is in the phrase “written words.” Most attorneys have a way with words, so writing per se isn’t an issue. However, the physical act of typing is time consuming. One group of voice technology experts estimates that lawyers can dictate a letter seven times faster than they can type it. That’s an 86% time savings! Even if you’re a faster-than-average typist, you’ll still save a considerable amount of time. (And if you hand-write notes, the time savings will be even greater.) That will certainly free up a lot of time in your day to see clients – and perhaps allow you to see more of them.
Maybe you’re concerned that switching to dictation involves a steep learning curve. If you have never dictated a letter, it will definitely take a little getting used to. But you’ll be surprised how fast and easy it is to get into a rhythm with your dictation.
Once you do, you’ll really start seeing your hours freeing up.
How Easy is It to Work with Legal Transcription Companies?
Working with legal transcription companies is easy, especially these days. The Gold Standard is to use a small digital recorder, which you can purchase for under $100. But your phone will work as well, and is likely always at hand. All you need to do is:
- Record your letters, notes, or whatever information you need to get your thoughts down on paper.
- Upload the audio file to a legal transcription company (such as iMedat).
- Download and review the completed, ready-to-use documents.
You can upload one audio file at a time for legal transcription. Or, you can wait until you have several audio files and send them all at the same time – once a day, once a week, or whatever schedule works best for you. Your documents are usually completed within 24 hours (though it may take longer if you upload a large batch of audio files at one time).
Best of all, with iMedat, you can always contact us and talk with a Client Services Manager – a real person – if you have any questions or concerns. Fast, efficient, and outstanding customer service!
Other Advantages of Working with Legal Transcription Companies
There are other advantages to working with legal transcription companies. For one, legal transcriptionists are trained professionals who understand legal documents. Of course, they are not the legal experts like you are. But they see enough legal documents every day that they can flag items that aren’t adding up.
For example, the legal transcriptionist may catch errors and inconsistencies in facts, mix-ups in dates, or if a name is wrong (such as “Center for Disease Control” instead of the correct “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention”). There are endless possibilities. The bottom line is that legal transcriptionists provide another set of eyes for your documents to reduce the risk of errors, inaccuracies, and inconsistencies.
Plus, you can turn to legal transcription companies such as iMedat to transcribe other recorded events as well such as:
- Client interviews
- Depositions
- Meetings
- Phone recordings
- Any type of audio or video file you need converted into straight text
iMedat provides legal transcription services that are fast, convenient, and cost effective. You get your text back in any format you like so you can immediately file it, mail it, email it, print it, include it in a current document, or do whatever it is you need to do with it.
Contact iMedat Today to Learn More
Learn more about how we can help you and your law office save time, boost billables, and increase productivity. Contact iMedat and let’s discuss. You’ll find that working with legal transcription companies can be easy – and iMedat makes it easier than most.