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MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 5.0
System Manager’s Guide  
555-650-118  
Issue 1
June 1997
Putting the System to Work 
Page 5-17
Scenario 2: A Professional Office 
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Table 5–6. 
Law Firm Call Coverage and Call-Handling
Staff Member Needs
Feature/Application
Partners
Never answer phone calls; all calls 
answered by their executive 
secretaries.
System Access (SA) button(s) 
programmed for Send Ring
If no executive secretary is 
available, calls can go to voice mail, 
if desired.
Group Coverage to voice messaging 
system 
Partners’ 
Executive 
Secretaries
Answer their bosses’ calls when 
their bosses are not available; make 
calls on behalf of bosses.
If a secretary is not available, one of 
the other executive secretaries 
takes the calls.
Shared System Access (SSA
button for each partner’s SA button, 
ringing immediately. Each secretary 
has Delay Ring on an SSA button 
that is usually answered by another 
secretary.
Use screen-pop CTI application for 
identifying outside callers and 
bringing up database information on 
each caller as the calls come in; use 
another CTI application for power 
dialing.
If no executive secretary is 
available, coverage by voice mail.
Coverage to voice messaging 
system application
Each partner has a separate fax 
number, but their faxes all go to a 
single machine.
Intuity AUDIX Fax Attendant 
application and fax mail
ISDN terminal adapters
No coverage. If ISDN terminal 
adapter is not available, calling party 
gets busy signal.
Associates
If an associate is not available, calls 
answered by associates’ secretaries 
after two rings.
Each has Individual Coverage, 
secondary (delayed).
If no one is available to take calls, 
voice mail coverage.
Coverage to voice messaging 
system 
Modems
No coverage; if a modem is not 
available, calling modem gets busy 
signal.
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