SERVICES - Legal Transcription

Specialties

Legal transcribers prepare legal documents both from written and dictated information. This data may include testimonies, pleadings, interrogatories like questions and answers, reviews of administrative hearings and the like.

In addition, other typical duties may include drafting and filing legal documents, calendaring and tracking important deadlines, assisting attorneys to prepare for trials, documenting relevant facts and information pertaining to a lawsuit, organizing and maintenance of client files, and using computers and related software as well as other reference materials to research and document law, and to prepare or transcribe the documents involved. Beyond this, one can specialize in various types of law like real estate, criminal, family, personal injury, corporate, and so on.

To be a legal transcriber, one needs to be proficient in the knowledge of American law, law in general and its origin, various court systems, cases, both legal application and reasoning and many other details.