Legal Transcription Services

GMR Transcription has the right solution if you are looking for a reliable, high-quality legal transcription service. GMR Transcription was founded in 2004, and we have transcribed thousands of minutes of legal transcription files.

With years of experience transcribing for courts and law firms across the country, our legal transcriptionists specialize in various areas, ranging from depositions to court hearings. We assure the utmost level of quality and accuracy. You can trust us to produce high-quality transcripts from your audio, video, and text files.

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Legal Transcription Process at GMR Transcription

Get your legal transcription with three simple steps:

Upload Your Audio, Video or Text Files

Sign up with GMR Transcription and upload your audio, video, or text files. Please fill in the details of the service you need like the desired turnaround time and provide us with any special instructions or format in which you want your legal transcripts delivered.

We Transcribe

We select and assign your work to the most suitable of our skilled legal transcriptionists based on your requirements. We conduct quality checks to ensure accurate transcripts.

Pay and Download

Once the transcription and proofreading process is finished, you will receive a notification. Following that, you must proceed with the payment and either download the transcribed files directly from your account or receive them via email.

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Legal Transcription Services Rates

Legal transcription prices depend on the following factors:

The turnaround time: The quicker you want your transcribed file back, the more expensive the service is.
The number of speakers in the audio recording: The rate is the same for one or two speakers. For three or more speakers, the rate would be higher.
The quality of the recording: The quality of the audio recording affects the rate. Poor quality audio is charged at a higher rate. Please click here to learn what we consider poor-quality audio.
Translation services: Rates are higher when translation from one language to another is involved. Please click here to learn more about our translation services. Please click here to view our translation services rate card.
Special services: The rates for special services like time stamps or notarization are higher.

Click here to check out our rates. Please feel free to contact us for any questions you may have about our rates or our services.

Please note that US-based human transcribers provide all these services. We do not use machines or AIs for our legal transcription services.

Why Choose GMR Transcription for Legal Transcription

GMR Transcription is one of the leading companies in legal transcription. We take pride in our skilled team of experienced transcriptionists and the use of advanced technology to improve user experience. With a history of 19 years in the transcription industry, GMR Transcription has transcribed a staggering 8.35 million minutes of audio.

Here we list some reasons why we are one of the most trusted legal transcription services providers:

Accuracy

With a remarkable 99% accuracy for good audio and reliable service, our human transcriptionists excel in areas where AI-based transcription software would be deficient. Our transcriptionists possess the expertise to identify multiple speakers and accurately decipher speech, even in challenging scenarios such as audio recordings with heavy background noise or non-native English speakers.

Turnaround Time

Another advantage of choosing GMR Transcription’s legal transcription services is our commitment to delivering your work within the turnaround time you have selected. Human transcription takes longer than AI (the price we pay for accuracy), but we promise to deliver your work based on your schedule. Please get in touch if you wish to discuss your project with us.

Affordable Pricing

Considering our high quality of service, our legal transcription prices are very affordable. We have attractive low prices for some of our more extended turnaround services. Please click here to check our rates for more extended turnaround services.

Wide Range of Transcription Services

GMR Transcription provides legal transcription services for recordings like public hearings, arbitration hearings, wiretaps, administrative hearings, meeting minutes, conferences, memorandums, court hearings, judicial hearings, interrogations, etc. We can closely follow your transcription instructions and transcribe in any format you provide. We are competent in managing specialized terminology or other unique requirements that you may have.

Technology

We ensure high security protocols and confidentiality for legal transcription work. At pace with technological advancements, we are equipped with robust systems and measures to safeguard your sensitive information and maintain the utmost confidentiality for all your projects.

Client Testimonials

Customers love us and trust our impeccable legal transcription services. See their reviews below:

What Is Legal Transcription?

Legal transcription refers to converting the audio of any legal proceeding, such as court hearings, depositions, or legal conferences, into a written document. An accurate transcript ensures that the key details and discussions are preserved in writing, facilitating legal research, analysis, and preparation for future use in legal proceedings.

Our US-based legal transcriptionists specialize in legal procedures, terminology, documentation, and formatting requirements. This enables them to deliver transcribed documents that are accurate, comprehensive, and tailored to your specific needs.

How a Good Legal Transcriptionist Can Help?

While working on cases, lawyers, paralegals, and others in the legal profession frequently handle vast amounts of data with tight deadlines. An excellent legal transcription service such as ours provides this domain with a critical transcription and documentation support service. Our legal transcriptionists can simplify and hugely reduce the burden of your work, as they are well-versed in transcribing legal audio accurately and producing well-formatted documents to meet the high standards of the legal profession.

The professionally trained legal transcribers fully comprehend the importance of accuracy, confidentiality, and careful attention to detail in transcribing audio relating to legal matters.

While choosing a legal transcriptionist, it is essential to look for certain qualities to get the quality of service that should match the high standards of your law firm and help you expedite the handling of cases.

Here are the essential qualities to look for:

Excellent Listening Skills

Legal transcriptionists should have exceptional listening skills, enabling them to accurately capture and understand spoken words in various legal settings, such as court proceedings, depositions, or client meetings. They should be able to decipher accents, accurately capture audio with multiple speakers, and discern intricate details crucial for producing accurate transcriptions.

Understanding of Legal Terms and Structure

Legal transcriptionists should have a solid grasp of legal terminology and the formatting of legal documents. They should be familiar with legal concepts, statutes, and procedures, which would help them transcribe complex legal discussions accurately. This knowledge ensures the final transcript is accurate and verifies its legal context.

Excellent Typing Skills

Legal transcriptionists should possess fast and accurate typing skills, which allows them to meet tight deadlines while maintaining accuracy. Proficiency in typing enables them to deliver transcriptions promptly and efficiently.

Familiarity with Transcription Tools

Legal transcriptionists should be proficient in using various transcription tools and software. They should be able to use features like typing shortcuts, foot pedals, text formatting, time coding, and spell-check. These enhance their productivity and enable them to produce high-quality transcripts consistently.

Good Proofreading Capacity

Good legal transcriptionists must pay meticulous attention to the details and have strong proofreading skills. They must review and revise transcriptions meticulously, ensuring accuracy, consistency, verbatim attributes, and grammar. A keen pair of eyes for errors or inconsistencies ensures the final transcript is error-free and appropriately finished.

Turnaround Per Schedule

Legal transcriptionists are adept at working under time constraints and meeting tight deadlines. They can transcribe legal content swiftly without compromising accuracy or quality. This efficiency and quick turnaround time are particularly beneficial for customers who require urgent services with tight deadlines.

How Does Legal Transcription Work?

Nowadays, almost all courtrooms, attorney offices, or police stations are equipped with high-quality audio and video digital electronic devices that record the proceedings like interrogations, witness statements, depositions, legal memorandums, pleadings, motions, case briefs, and files. These recordings are transcribed to create written transcripts. The accuracy of these written documents is vital as they may be used as evidence or witness testimonies in a court of law.

Verbatim Transcription: Sometimes, transcription of legal audio or video, especially in the case of deposition recording or witness statements, verbatim transcription format is requested. Verbatim means that the transcriptionist writes down what they hear or see (in the case of court reporters) verbatim or ‘word to word’.

Other subtle yet significant details such as pauses, hesitations, delays, false starts, and the usage of filler words such as “err,” “um,” “ah,” and “uh” that are present in the recording must be included in the transcript. Also, no efforts should be made to edit, infer, or summarize the content of the recorded source. If the transcript of any audio is admissible as evidence in a court of law, or if any agency takes a decision that should be good in law based on the transcripts, it should be transcribed verbatim.

Who Needs Legal Transcription Services?

Legal transcription services are valuable to many individuals and organizations involved in the legal field. Here are some examples of those who can benefit from legal transcription services:

Lawyers and Law Firms

Legal transcription services enable attorneys, paralegals, and law firms to create, preserve, refer, or research critical transcribed documents based on witness testimonies. Transcripts also save precious time by streamlining and organizing the flow of information that they need by referring to a filed transcript rather than an audio file.

Court Reporters

While legal transcriptionists work on recorded sources to create text documents, court reporters work inside a courtroom to create real-time transcribed text of each word spoken during a court proceeding. They may require the assistance of legal transcription services for enhanced presentation and formatting of their text, to check whether they have missed any vital point discussed during the proceeding, or to meet tight deadlines.

Businesses

Businesses need legal counsel at various stages of their operations. Transcripts of the audio or video recordings of meetings or interviews related to the legal aspects of work can be used as vital references and help businesses to be better prepared, especially during contracting or lawsuit settlements.

Government Agencies

Government agencies, including law enforcement agencies, benefit immensely from legal transcription services. In many states, an audio recording of the witnesses, victims, or the accused, and the subsequent transcription is required.

Individuals

With a legal transcription service, an individual collecting data for research or wanting to collate information for personal or professional reasons has easy access to accurately transcribed and correctly formatted written records of multiple types of legal events.

Understanding the Purpose of Legal Transcription

The term legal implies what is lawful. Being lawful is being blameless in the eyes of the judicial system of any country. The speech of all involved in any incident is one of the principal resources for avoiding or settling disputes or delivering justice when a crime has been committed. Verbatim or non-verbatim transcription of the audio of a discussion, a speech, a deposition, or a witness testimony, forms an essential part of the record or evidence in case of a trial.

Due to the increasing digitization of the legal sector, legal transcription service has emerged as a vital aid to the judicial process, being extensively used by all the agencies in this field. At the same time, legal transcription is a skillful profession needing expertise and experience; for anyone not specially trained, transcribing audio or video recordings can be time-consuming and cumbersome with poor outcomes, especially for any legal professional already burdened with a hectic work schedule.

Hence, by utilizing a reputed transcription company's professional legal transcription services, a firm's workforce's time, energy, and other resources can be better used for more productive work, leading to higher output and optimal use of their resources. As these transcripts are admissible in a court as evidence, the highest standard of accuracy is required, which can be assured only by a skilled and reliable legal transcriptionist with the requisite expertise and experience in creating superior-quality legal transcripts.

Why Is Legal Transcription So Important in Court Proceedings?

Legal transcripts are written records of all spoken words during and for a court proceeding, depositions, insurance claims, police verification, etc. The transcripts are formatted to make them an easy-to-understand source of vital information that can be conveniently accessed for a wide range of applications by the legal profession, such as investigations, hearings, arbitration hearings, witness interviews, and court proceedings.

Their accuracy, and easy and quick access to specific portions required as reference points, make these transcripts valuable tools widely used in court proceedings.

Legal transcriptions have gained importance in court proceedings for their multiple benefits.

1. Enhanced Work Output

Legal professionals need to source information from varied sources, including audio and video recordings, to present as evidence during a court proceeding; frequent reference to a specific section of the audio or video recording can be time-consuming and tedious. Also, in many instances, the quality of the recordings could be better for analysis of the collected information.

Legal transcription enhances the productivity of attorneys and paralegals by enabling them to manage the available information related to a specific case more effectively. It helps them to manage their time better.

2. Better Planned Strategies

A meticulously transcribed verbatim legal file would include not just the verbal interactions during a court proceeding but also significant non-verbal cues and other subtle nuances in speech that may be overlooked while collecting information directly from the audio or video recordings.

Legal transcriptionists are skilled in incorporating all crucial details in the verbatim transcripts, allowing the attorneys to strategize better as they can glean more detailed information and present their evidence more efficiently. Also, the progression of information along a specified timeline makes it easier to analyze with higher efficiency using tools such as timestamps and speaker identification.

3. Highlights for Convenient Reference

Any crucial information requiring referencing during a court proceeding can be conveniently highlighted on a legal transcript. Going back and forth to access the same data from a video and audio clip may slow down the judicial process. Besides speeding up the court proceedings, highlighting essential aspects of the text can be effectively used during the pre-trial investigation phase while preparing notes and devising strategies that can help reach favorable outcomes.

4. Credible Defense Tool

Legal transcriptions give legal professionals the precision and clarity to analyze legal testimonies and other relevant events. Since quality transcripts assure high levels of accuracy and can be presented without delay, they are increasingly being accepted as a credible defense tool during court proceedings.

Benefits of Using Our Legal Transcription Service

At GMR Transcription, our team of experienced legal transcribers has the requisite skills to provide you with transcripts of the highest quality. We have been offering services on par with global standards to clients ranging from attorneys, paralegals, and law firms to investigators, law enforcement agencies, and court reporters.

Some of the highlights and benefits of our legal transcription services include:

100% United States based Human Legal Transcriptionists
Digital Organization and Management of Legal Files
Assured Reduction in Your Workload
Assured Confidentiality of Legal Information
Cost Effective and Time-Efficient
Customized Transcription Formats

Transcription Services That We Offer to Legal Professionals

Here is a list of our specialized transcription services for legal professionals, court reporters, attorneys, and corporations to help them save valuable time and allow them to focus on other essential tasks.

Types of Transcription Services Catering to Legal Professionals

Court Hearings and Depositions

The proceedings in a court of law are usually transcribed. These transcripts document witness testimonies, arguments by attorneys, and judicial decisions, serving as an official record of the court proceedings for legal reference and appeal purposes.

Public Hearings

It encompasses converting spoken discussions and testimonies from public forums into written formats. This facilitates accurate documentation of proceedings, providing legal professionals with valuable resources for analysis, reference, or court proceedings.

Arbitration Hearings

Arbitration hearings involve transcribing the statements, arguments, and testimonies presented during arbitration. These transcripts are valuable for documenting the proceedings and can be used as evidence or for reference during the arbitration process or any subsequent legal proceedings.

Wiretaps

These involve transcribing recorded conversations obtained through legal wiretapping. These transcripts are crucial for legal professionals to review and analyze the recorded conversations, extracting relevant information for investigative or litigation purposes.

Administrative Hearings

The transcripts for administrative hearings convert spoken proceedings in organizational settings into written transcripts. These transcripts provide an accurate account of the hearing, including statements, evidence, and decisions made by administrative bodies, which can be essential for further legal actions or appeals.

Meeting Minutes

We convert recorded discussions into written summaries for your meeting minutes. These transcripts capture key points, decisions, and actions discussed in the meeting, serving as an official record that can be referred to later or distributed among the legal professionals involved.

Conferences

Legal conferences involve speeches, presentations, and discussions held during conferences or seminars relevant to the legal field. Their transcripts provide a written reference of the topics covered, enabling legal professionals to review and refer to the information shared during the conference.

Memorandums

Transcripts for memorandums involve converting recorded or dictated legal memos into written format. It allows for accurate documentation and distribution of critical legal memos among legal professionals or relevant parties involved in a case or legal matter.

Judicial Hearings

Judicial hearings involve converting spoken proceedings before a judge or magistrate into written transcripts. These transcripts capture the statements made by all parties involved, including the judge's rulings and orders, ensuring an accurate and complete record of the judicial hearing.

Interrogations

For interrogations, transcribing recorded interviews or questionings conducted by law enforcement or legal professionals is done by us. These transcripts are vital for reviewing statements made during the interrogation, extracting relevant information, and preparing for further legal actions or investigations.

Related Legal Transcription Services Available at GMR

Memorandum Transcription

Deposition Transcription

Court Tapes Transcription

Verbatim Transcription

Wire Tap Transcription

Trials Transcription

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What Is the Turnaround Time for Legal Transcription Services?

At GMR Transcription, we understand the importance of preparing legal documents with due diligence for details and accuracy. You chose what turnaround time works best for you. Our turnaround time ranges from same-day services to three to four weeks. We always strive for our commitment to providing outstanding quality services to paralegals, court reporters, attorneys, and other legal professionals.

Call us at 714-202-9653 or toll-free at 800-731-7412 if you have questions regarding our transcription rates and turnaround time or want an official written quote emailed.

Your Project, Our Priority: Meet Our Dedicated Team

We prioritize your project at GMR Transcription, delivering exceptional legal transcription services. Our team is experienced in handling sensitive legal documents, ensuring accuracy and reliability. With a 4.9-star rating on Google, clients consistently praise our excellent service and dedication. Trust us to transcribe recordings, legal notes, and court proceedings more diligently.

Your satisfaction is our top priority, and when you choose us, you can be confident in our commitment to providing the best possible results. Experience the difference yourself and let us bring clarity and precision to your legal transcriptions.

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Legal Transcription FAQs

Yes, we have live customer service representatives available to assist you. You can contact us via phone or live chat during our business hours.

We accept a wide range of file formats for transcription, including but not limited to MP3, M4A, WAV, AIFF, and more. Please get in touch with our customer service for assistance if you have a specific format not listed.

Our transcriptionists are experienced professionals familiar with legal terminologies and industry-specific transcription requirements. They accurately transcribe legal documents, court proceedings, depositions, and more.

Our legal transcription service prices vary depending on audio quality, turnaround time, and additional services required.

Our quoted price includes the transcription service and additional charges for optional services such as timestamping, verbatim transcription, or expedited turnaround times, for which you can opt. All the rates and options are there on the rate sheet.

Yes, we have transcriptionists who specialize in legal verbatim transcription. They know legal terminology and are experienced in transcribing legal documents accurately.

Yes, we have a team of background-checked transcriptionists who are available on request.

We maintain high-quality standards by employing skilled transcriptionists, implementing rigorous quality control measures, and regularly reviewing completed transcripts. Our quality assurance team ensures accuracy, consistency, and adherence to customer specifications.

We prioritize client confidentiality and have taken appropriate measures to protect your data. Our transcriptionists sign confidentiality agreements, and we have strict internal policies and security protocols in place. We also use secure file transfer methods and comply with industry standards to safeguard your information.

After completing your transcription, you can receive the transcribed material. If you prefer email delivery, we will send the transcribed text to the email address you provided during the order placement. Alternatively, you can log into your account with us and download files.

We offer a variety of transcript formats to suit your needs, including Microsoft Word (DOC/ DOCX), PDF, and plain text (TXT). Just let us know your requirements, and we will do our best to accommodate your request.

To ensure accurate legal transcription, choose a professional service, provide clear audio recordings, offer contextual information, and select experienced transcriptionists familiar with legal terminology.

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