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GAZETTE
AUGUST 1976
Mustfee-earnershave
theworstof bothworlds?
Fee
-earners in law practices today certainly
seem to have the worst of both worlds. Clients
demand an ever increasing speed of turn-around
of instructions and this is putting more pressure
on the fee-earner to put in longer hours.
But that's not all. Many legal fees are still
charged at static rates, so fee-income is being
eroded by mounting overheads and staff salaries,
while the fee-earner works longer and harder.
The plain fact is that the legal profession is
under pressure and it is the fee-earner who is
bearing the brunt of that pressure.
IBM can offer some practical help and
comfort for the legal profession. Our range of
memory typewriters is already bringing about
dramatic changes in many legal offices. They
have taken the drudgery out of routine pro-
cedures and introduced methods of handling
volumes of work faster, more efficiently and
more economically.
Using memory typewriters a first draft is
produced, error free, in a fraction of the time
required using conventional methods, and the
fee-earner can make amendments comparing
only the amendment itself. Retyping a final
draft or for example typing an engrossment is
carried out automatically at speeds of up to
180 words per minute.
Most of your routine correspondence can
also be handled automatically releasing you for
more productive work; while the secretarial
drudgery is removed from the production of
important documents.
All this adds up to saving time —and that
means money too — for you and your
secretarial staff. You spend less time drafting
and checking —they spend less time typing
and correcting.
Heretofore, handling paperwork in a legal
office has become an ever increasing problem,
hereinafter, IBM memory typewriters will
make it easier for you.
For further information, contact Mr. Tony
Pickavance at IBM.
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