At Ashurst Morris Crisp, we now have all 850 fee earners and secretaries in our London office using digital dictation on a daily basis. The TotalSpeech software package we use, developed by BigHand, is soon to be rolled out globally starting with our European offices.

As the first and largest rollout of this technology in the UK the project has received much attention and we recently held a discussion evening on the ins and outs of the project in order that other law firms, large or small, could take something from our experience. This article is based on that evening and I hope it confronts the opinions and queries expressed in what was a useful discussion.