Five winning stories will be selected by a panel of judges, and the winning entrants will each receive an Amazon Kindle 2 as well as Dragon NaturallySpeaking upgrades for three years.
I'm a solo legal practitioner in Rhode Island. Like many attorneys I don't have a support staff. Whatever needs to be done in my law practice, you'll find me doing it.
Never have I had the distinct pleasure of having so many jobs at one time. From dawn til dusk I am the scheduling coordinator, the telephone answering service, the bookkeeper, the filing assistant, the technology repair man, the purchasing agent and the marketing manager. If the human body didn't require food or sleep I could literally work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week just running my law practice.
Needless to say, I needed some help and Dragon Naturally Speaking's resume fit the bill. I use Dragon Naturally Speaking as my virtual secretary. Dragon handles my typing for letters and court documents in a fraction of the time I could ever type them with pinpoint accuracy. To say that Dragon has saved me weeks of work time out of every year would be a gross understatement. Dragon's price is a hand's down winner. Dragon cost me a micro-fraction of what it would cost me for an excellent secretary and I don't have to pay it benefits or worry about Dragon giving me attitude, requiring benefits or demanding more vacation time.
Ultimately, Dragon has been my saving grace in one primary area, namely Marketing. All my clients come from my internet presence which requires constant attention and development. Thanks to my blog through TypePad.com and Dragon's ability to "think on the go" for writing all my marketing articles for multiple weblogs, I cut down my 20 hours of article writing each week to only 4 hours. I now have time to spend with my wife and my grandchildren.
If a software program could be a partner in a business my practice might just be called Dragon & Pearsall, LLC instead of Pearsall Law.