Legal Transcription By Leading Experts

Legal transcription is converting legal recordings into accurate, formatted transcripts a practice can rely on. The work goes to transcribers who do this particular job every day, not to a general pool, and each file is checked against the source by a second reviewer before it is sent. This site is built around audio, video and document material in almost any format, including legacy media.

Yes, in 100+ languages, each handled by a native speaker and not by someone working from a dictionary. What legal transcription involves does not change with the language, and the same independent check happens before delivery. Older recordings often mix languages, and each one is kept as it was spoken instead of flattened into one.

Rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours is available, and the delivery time is confirmed in writing before you pay. Legacy media such as tape, MiniDV, DAT or optical disc adds a digitising step, and that is quoted and scheduled up front. Legal transcription is scheduled against the people who actually do this work, not against a general pool. If a deadline cannot be met you are told at quoting stage, not on the day.

The standard is 99+%, reached by doing the job twice: one person produces the file, a second checks it against the source. What gets checked on legal transcription is the detail a reader would otherwise have to verify themselves: names, figures, terms and anything the source left ambiguous. Degraded tape and low-bitrate audio go to people used to that loss, not to software that fills the gaps with guesses.

Only the people doing the work can open your material, and all of them are under NDA. Legal transcription often involves material people would not want circulated, so the file is closed to everyone except the pair working on it. Archive material is often the only copy in existence, so originals are logged, restricted and returned. Transfer is encrypted in both directions, and deletion on an agreed schedule can be set up where your records require it.

Word, PDF, Excel, Google Docs or plain text. The format for legal transcription is agreed at order stage, so the first delivery is the one you can file, send on or publish. Source material in almost any audio, video or document format is accepted, including formats most suppliers turn away. Your house template can be applied from the first order, which is what keeps a set of documents looking like one set.

Three steps: send the material, approve the quote, receive the finished work by email. Nothing starts before you approve the price, and revisions are free for 30 days after delivery. Say what the legal transcription is for when you send it, because a filing, a publication and an internal record are formatted differently.

Payment is by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, PayPal, Square, wire transfer and checks, and businesses and institutions can be set up on monthly invoicing instead of paying per job. Archives, broadcasters and institutions sending media in batches are invoiced monthly instead of item by item. Legal transcription is billed on completion against the approved quote, with no deposit taken up front. The price you approve in the written quote is the price you are charged.

Point out the passage and it is corrected at no charge, because revisions are free for 30 days after delivery. Corrections on legal transcription are usually about house style and not mistakes, and once yours is set it is applied to every later order. Where a name on an old recording turns out to be wrong, the fix is applied across the whole batch. Work that goes beyond the original brief, such as a different template or a new style, is quoted before it starts.

General transcription starts at $1 per audio minute and legal transcription at $2. Legal transcription is quoted from the material you send, so a short job and a long one are worked out the same way. The source format makes no difference to the rate; digitising legacy media appears as its own line in the quote. Quotes are calculated from how long the recording runs, how clear the audio is and how many people are speaking, so two clients sending comparable material pay the same, and nothing begins until you approve the written total.