Monday, 12 March 2012

Outsourcing Legal Records to Transcription Services, is it Safe or Not?


Around the world, the demand for these legal transcriptionists is soaring and big law firms are hiring these specialists for transcribing legal documentations. There are countless companies offering transcription services in New York City through their lucrative (rather cheap) offers and manipulated market reviews. It is never easy for a law firm to outsource their masterpieces to any coat hanger and they have to face the biggest worry of betting on right horse.


Below are some points, extracted from an interview held between a lawyer and a legal transcriptionist -

Interviewer: What do these legal transcriptionists do? Is this service similar to other transcription services?
Legal transcriptionist: Well, legal transcription services are extremely different from the other texting service. A legal transcriptionist is one who extracts the legal information from the audio and video tapes of interrogations, court hearings, testimonies, pleadings and of course dictations.

Interviewer: Does he need special skills for this?
Legal transcriptionist: Yes he do, he ought to have legal background, law qualifications and a deep understanding of legal terminologies, without which he cannot perform Legal transcription services up to the mark. Beside this, impeccable grammar and English skills are imperative, one single spelling mistake (important- impotent) is capable enough of changing the whole sentence/clause. Moreover, when a legal document is transcribed, it eventually becomes a reference module for other cases. Therefore, special skills are necessary to ensure the accuracy of document created.

Interviewer: Is outsourcing safe?
Legal transcriptionist: Yes, if done with proper care and in proper hands. When it is a matter of business reputation, you cannot compromise on quality and correctness, you need exact and absolute transcription service. Therefore, relying on an uninitiated company with non-English transcribers will only bring troubles. As far as document’s security is concerned, one can hire a company that offers its service under the biding of confidentiality agreements.

Interviewer: How one can judge a company?
Legal transcriptionist: Before hiring a company for any legal transcription based services, one must check the company’s market reputation and its reliability. The hirer can ask the contacted company for submitting some references about its past work history or clients.

Interviewer: Can you recommend any good company that offers transcription services around New York City?
Legal transcriptionist: Please refer http://www.nyctranscription.com.

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