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Transcription for lawyers.Client meetings, CLE lectures, deposition prep.

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Client interview in. Working notes out.

Upload the client meeting recording from your conference room mic, phone, or Zoom. We label speakers, timestamp every turn, and flag your case-specific vocabulary — but we do not produce a certified record.

Client intake · MP3REC 2 speakers · 38:14
auto-detected en-US44 kHz mono · 96 kbps
~90s
Transcript · streaming95% accuracy
S1

Let's walk the timeline. When did you first get notice from the lender?

S2

March 14th. The certified letter arrived that Friday afternoon.

S1

And the foreclosure complaint — when were you served?

S2

Six weeks later, late April. I kept the envelope.

95% on conference-room monoDOCX · SRT · TXT · JSON

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This is what loads when the job finishes.

Same layout as the real dashboard — Summary, full Transcript, Speakers tab, Exports. Key points and action items extracted automatically. Auto-tags on every job.

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Three real options · honest comparison

Rev Legal. A paralegal with headphones. Or us.

For an official deposition or trial record, you need a certified court reporter — none of these three replace that. For everything else (intake calls, CLE, prep sessions, witness debriefs), here's what the choice actually looks like.

Option 01

Rev Legal (human)

Human transcriptionists, NDA-bound. High accuracy, slow, expensive at volume.

Turnaround12-24 hours typical
Cost~$1.99/min (approximate)
Speaker labelsYes, human-tagged
ConfidentialityHuman reviewer + NDA
Court-admissibleNo (not certified)
Best forSingle high-stakes recording where you need near-verbatim text and don't mind paying $120 for a one-hour file.
Option 02

Transcription.Solutions

AI transcription. Speaker-labeled working notes in minutes. Audio gone in 24 hours.

Turnaround~4 min per 60 min audio
Cost · per min$0.03
Speaker labelsDiarized, editable
ConfidentialityNo human review · 24h delete
Court-admissibleNo — working notes only
Best forIntake calls, deposition prep, CLE archives, witness debriefs, internal memos — anywhere you want searchable text fast.
Option 03

Paralegal + Otter

Generic meeting AI plus billable paralegal hours to clean it up.

TurnaroundSame day, paralegal-dependent
Cost$20/seat + billable hours
Speaker labelsAcoustic, EN-tuned
Legal vocabularyNo domain tuning
Court-admissibleNo
Best forFirms already paying for Otter who don't mind a paralegal fixing 'voir dire' to 'wahr-deer' across 50 pages.

Pricing approximate as of 2026. None of the three options above produce a certified court record — that requires a CSR or RPR court reporter.

Specific to legal work

Four things that bite lawyers on generic transcription tools.

Legal recordings have their own failure modes. Flip the right settings and the transcript comes back usable.

What goes wrong

  1. 1Latin and term-of-art butchered. 'Voir dire' becomes 'war deer'. 'Res ipsa loquitur' becomes word salad. 'Mens rea' becomes 'men's ray'.
  2. 2Case citations mangled. '410 U.S. 113' transcribed as 'four ten you ess one thirteen'. Party names misspelled across 80 pages.
  3. 3Confidentiality leaks. Generic tools store audio indefinitely, train models on your files, or route through human reviewers without an NDA you signed.
  4. 4Cross-talk in depositions collapses three attorneys objecting at once into one mystery speaker.

What to flip here

  1. 1Paste case-specific vocabulary into the Custom vocabulary field: party names, expert witnesses, Latin terms, statute references. Passed to the recognizer as a hint.
  2. 2Turn on Citation formatting — we keep '410 U.S. 113' as a numeric citation and preserve 'v.' between party names.
  3. 3Your audio is deleted within 24 hours. No human reviews it, no model trains on it. SOC 2-aligned infrastructure.
  4. 4Set Speaker count: 4-8 for depositions. Diarization tightens its thresholds and stops merging similar voices.

Recommended job settings for legal work

Drop a legal recording and these flip on by default. Override per-matter from the form.

Custom vocabulary
Party + witness + statute terms
Diarization
Conversational · 2-8 speakers
Audio retention
Auto-delete in 24 hours
Filler words
Kept (matter for testimony)
Timestamps
Every 30 seconds + per speaker
Export
DOCX · timestamped TXT · SRT

Accuracy · real-world numbers

95% on conference-room audio. Drops on speakerphone depositions.

Legal recordings are messy — speakerphones, cross-talk, Latin terminology, witness names you've never heard. The ceiling is set by the mic and the room, not the AI. Numbers below come from actual client files in production.

95%
Conference room · lapel or boundary mic

Two attorneys, controlled room, decent mic. Latin terms and case citations land cleanly when you've loaded custom vocabulary.

93%
Zoom or Teams · client intake

Per-channel cloud recording, 2-3 participants. Standard for remote client meetings and discovery calls.

88%
CLE lecture · room recording

Single speaker, lecture-hall acoustics. Audience Q&A drops when the mic doesn't reach — expect a 5-min cleanup pass.

82%
Speakerphone deposition prep · 4+ voices

Conference phone in the middle of the table, cross-talk, similar male voices. Words usable, speaker chips need manual renaming.

Common questions

8 things lawyers ask about legal transcription.

01Is this admissible as a court record?+
No. AI transcription is a working tool — not a certified verbatim record. For depositions, hearings, or trial, you need a CSR or RPR court reporter. Use us for prep, intake, CLE, and internal memos where you need searchable text, not a court exhibit.
02How do you handle attorney-client privilege?+
Audio uploads are encrypted in transit and at rest, and permanently deleted from our servers within 24 hours of the job completing. No human reviews your files. No model trains on them. The transcript stays in your account until you delete it.
03Can you transcribe a deposition for the official record?+
No. Depositions on the record require a certified court reporter under your jurisdiction's rules. We're useful for deposition prep — running through outlines with co-counsel, debriefing after, or generating a working transcript from the videographer's recording for your own review.
04What about Latin terms and case citations?+
Paste them into custom vocabulary on the job form: 'voir dire', 'habeas corpus', 'res ipsa loquitur', party names, expert witnesses. We pass them to the recognizer as a hint. Citations like '410 U.S. 113' format correctly when the speaker says them clearly.
05Can I use this for CLE accreditation recordings?+
You can transcribe a CLE lecture for your own notes or to build a searchable archive. Whether the transcript counts toward accreditation depends on your state bar's rules — most require attendance, not a transcript. Check your jurisdiction.
06How long does a 60-minute client meeting take to transcribe?+
About 4 minutes. Most legal recordings — intake calls, prep sessions, CLE — come back in well under 10 minutes. The transcript streams in as it processes so you can start reading before it finishes.
07Do you sign a BAA or NDA for the firm?+
We have standard data processing terms in our ToS that cover most law-firm use. For a custom NDA or BAA (HIPAA-aligned matters, medical malpractice files, etc.), contact us before uploading and we'll work through your firm's paper.
08Can I get a transcript with line numbers like a deposition?+
We export DOCX with timestamps every 30 seconds and speaker labels — not the 25-line/page deposition format. If you need that exact format, take our DOCX into Word and apply a deposition template, or hire a court reporter for the actual record.

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