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Digital Dictation Is Simplifying How Lawyers Work

By John Methfessel
October 03, 2005

For lawyers who dictate their work to tape cassettes, dictation has many frustrations. Once the lawyer has finished dictating, the words are fixed in place. You cannot move words around on the tape or drop in new paragraphs.

With the advent of e-discovery, it's impossible to combine today's state of the art e-discovery solutions with yesterday's analog-dictation technology. Having a foot in both worlds is at best inefficient, and at worst can lead to misplaced data or work.

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