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What is Legal Word Processing?

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At OutSec Legal we have a range of word processing services all of which have been specifically designed for today's legal practice. Outsourcing key process-based functions like word processing allow law firms, barristers' chambers and legal practices to concentrate on what they do best; practice law.

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In the words of Tom Peters: "Do what you do best, outsource the rest".

Legal Word Processing: What is it?

Legal word processing is the production of typewritten legal documents and legal correspondence using computerised typing and text-editing equipment.  Word processing today would cover legal transcription which is the process of converting digital dictation recordings recorded by solicitors, lawyers, barristers, paralegals, legal executives and their practice staff from speech into text by word processing specialists (legal transcriptionists, legal typists or legal secretaries) who then transcribes the text into digital legal documents. These digital documents will include (to name a few): 

  • Leases

  • Notices

  • Articles of Association

  • Bespoke correspondence

  • Telephone attendance notes

  • File notes

  • Attendance notes 

  • Witness statements

  • Affidavits

  • Statutory declarations

  • Contracts and Agreements

  • Instructions and Briefs to Counsel

  • HM Land Registry documents and forms

  • Court documents and forms

Our legal word processing specialists know how court documents and legal documents are to be laid out. It is something you only learn having working in a legal practice. Our legal transcriptionist team are word processing specialists and know to set out documents in civil proceedings and are aware that the layout is stipulated by law, under part 5 of the CPR.  They also know when writing a letter to an incarcerated prisoner at His Majesty's pleasure, what rule it should be sent under. If they don't then, your work is not being carried out by a trained word processing specialist.

 

There are, unfortunately, many transcription companies in the market, that conduct work for many different sectors, where legal work is often farmed out randomly to huge banks of word processing staff, where most have never worked in the legal profession.  This results in poor-quality legal transcription.

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The term word processing would also other services we offer such as copy typing (see below).

OutSec Legal's Word Processing Team

At OutSec Legal we believe in having dedicated legal transcriptionists to conduct your word processing requirements. Consequently, for each fee earner, we would allocate two experienced legal secretaries, typists or transcriptionists to carry out their work.  All our transcriptionists have at least 10 years of experience in the legal sector.  This allows your dedicated typists to build a rapport, in the same way as an in-house secretary would.

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Every word processing expert, legal secretary, legal transcriptionist or legal copy typist has at least 10 years’ experience working within the legal sector.  Most of our word processing experts have CILEX or ​London Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Legal Secretarial qualifications.

It is this which makes OutSec Legal's word processing team one of the best in the UK legal transcription and word processing market.

What Areas of Law Does Your Word Processing Experts Cover?

At OutSec Legal we cover all areas of law but have  word processing document specialists and legal transcriptionists in the following areas:

  • ​Company Law

  • Conveyancing

  • Property Law

  • Civil Litigation

  • Criminal Litigation

  • Tort

  • Copyright (Music)

  • Design and Patents

  • Debt

  • Criminal

  • Matrimonial

  • Family

  • Probate

  • Insolvency

  • Bankruptcy

  • Charity

  • Commercial

  • Consumer

  • Corporate

  • Human Rights

  • Personal Injury

  • Clinical negligence

  • Immigration

  • Social Housing

  • Public Law

  • Employment Law

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What Makes OutSec Legal The Best Word Processing Service in the UK?

  • OutSec Legal are Cyber Essentials certified which is assessed independently;

  • OutSec Legal only use experienced legal secretaries, legal copy typists, notetakers, minute takers, legal document production and editing specialists, all of whom have signed strict confidentiality agreements with us.;

  • With OutSec Legal there is no need for expensive dictation equipment;

  • OutSec Legal offers a free dictation app to customers.  This allows legal dictation files to be recorded on your smartphone or tablet;

  • With OutSec Legal there are no contracts, no monthly fees, no minimum spends or hidden fees. The service is on a pay-as-you-go basis, meaning you are in control;

  • OutSec Legal has been designed exclusively for the legal sector to offer the best quality remote legal typing and legal document production, formatting and editing services at cost-effective pricing;

  • OutSec Legal's services are perfect for sole practitioners, barristers, mediators, law costs draftsmen, law firms, in-house legal departments and barrister's chambers;

  • OutSec Legal are GDPR compliant.

  • Our document production specialists can even improve upon existing templates or precedents for you to improve productivity;

  • OutSec Legal offers multi-voice transcription. We can transcribe recorded remote meetings and provide Zoom transcription., Microsoft Teams transcription & Skype transcription;

  • We can also work directly with your existing case management software such as Proclaim, ALB, Ochresoft, Intelliworks, LEAP, Visualfiles and many more;

  • OutSec Legal can integrate with leading digital dictation software platforms such as BigHand, Dictamen, Olympus ODMS and Philips Speechwrite; 

  • OutSec Legal is based in the United Kingdom and is a UK-registered company;

  • OutSec Legal offers copy typing, fix and format, file conversion and legal authoring services to name but a few;

  • OutSec Legal provides itemised billing each month, so you know what you have spent and when;

  • OutSec Legal are able to work with your existing legal precedents, legal templates or lists of standard paragraphs.

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