BigHand, Esquire, and Pilgrim: Wednesday's legal IT news

Top-100 law firm upgrades to BigHand and eliminates temporary cover costs

BigHand, the leading voice productivity vendor in the global legal community, has today announced that Top 100 law firm Thomas Eggar LLP has replaced its ‘standalone’ dictation system with BigHand’s award-winning digital dictation workflow technology. Replacement of the standalone digital system with BigHand’s 3-tier technology for 500 users across 6 offices has brought immediate benefits to the firm including the elimination of temporary cover costs; on this basis alone, the firm expects to return its investment within just 12 to 18 months. Read more...


Users Respond with High Marks for iRedline

After six months in the market Esquire Innovations, Inc, a leading provider of Microsoft Office integration software for law firms, reports that the newest version of iRedline is receiving praise from the product’s users.
"Esquire encourages our clients to let us know what they think – good and bad. This feedback allows us to constantly evaluate our products,” states Randall Farrar, president and founder of Esquire Innovations. “We are hearing that the latest version of iRedline makes editing and finalizing collaboration documents in Word even more efficient without any additional training. Only after we hear from our customers that a product works the way we intended, do we consider a new release a success.” Read more...



LawSoft repossession case management seminar

With the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) reporting 40,000 repossessions in 2008, a 12 year high, and anything up to 75,000 predicted for 2009, it is clear that the current property slump is as deep as most of us have ever experienced. And whilst lenders are making strenuous efforts to ensure that repossession really is a last resort, the CML figures show that at the end of last year around 182,600 mortgages – or 1.57% of the total – had accumulated arrears equal to 2.5% or more of the outstanding loan. This compares with 1.29% at the end of the third quarter of 2008 and just 1.08% at the end of 2007. This is still a growing problem. Read more...

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