Legal transcription is one of the most outsourced jobs after medical transcription and business transcription and is proving to be highly helpful for law firms, business firms, non-profit organizations and attorneys. Most of the firms which offer legal-transcription have their services offered in a highly competitive and time-bound manner for their clients, mainly in the United States and the UK. Legal transcription involves creating legal documents from recorded files of court proceedings and trials. Some of the legal transcription services being made available in these transcription facilities include verbatim transcription, legal letter transcription, wire tap transcription, correspondence transcription, and court transcriptions.

The need for these legal transcription services arises from the fact that lawyers handling civil and criminal cases require hard copies of proceedings at their offices. These can be pleadings, judgments, or interrogatories. To address the need for effective transcription of all these proceedings, most legal transcription service providers are offering their quality services for a wide range of clients which include:

• Attorneys
• Legal departments
• Non-governmental organizations
• Public prosecutors
• Financial/banking firms
• Insurance companies
• State/Federal agencies and more

In legal transcription, hard copies are generated from either audio or video tapes which contain recorded legal proceedings. The need for quality and accuracy in transcription is important and to ensure accuracy levels of up to 99% in the transcribed documents, legal-transcription providers have employed mostly law graduates and to guarantee quality, most firms also have in-house quality checks for errors and misspells. Most of these firms are also imparting high levels of training for their employees and often take care to update their knowledge levels regarding legal terms.

Security of legal documents is critical and to ensure high levels of security, most of these legal transcription providers are using internet security encryptions such as SSL for all online transfers of audio, video and processed legal documents. Since all legal documents are digitized and securely stored by outsourcing firms, retrieval of documents is easy, saving considerable time and effort.

Apart from legal transcription services, most of these firms also undertake a lot of other related services such as legal coding, legal research, litigation support, legal scoping, and court reporting. To serve clients better, all legal transcription firms are offering their services on a 24x7 basis. These firms have sufficient staffs and equipments to address all client requirements. The competitive, efficient and affordable services being provided by these legal-transcription providers always ensure that law firms and attorneys have more time to concentrate on important matters, thereby serving their clients better.