Legal Transcription Opportunities With Focus Groups

This is the first in a series of short articles we will do that go beyond legal transcription generally. We’ll call them the Opportunities Series which include other types of businesses that can use your legal transcribing services. The reason we feel this is...

Difference Between Court Reporter and Legal Transcriber

There is a lot of confusion about the differences between a court reporter and a legal transcriptionist. While related, they are very different careers and require different education and skills. So let’s discuss the differences so you can determine the right...

Legal Transcription Work Station Setup

With all of the tips and information about how to develop into an excellent transcriptionist, we’ve overlooked a critically important component that doesn’t involve formatting, understanding legal terminology, using tools within your word processing...

Tips to Be A More Productive Legal Transcriber

One of the biggest challenges of working from home as a legal transcriber is keeping on task and away from all of the distractions. If you are working with clients that do a lot of trials and depositions you may also have to deal with very quick turn arounds to get...

Diary of a Legal Transcriber Week 6

I’m really getting into the actual legal transcribing now. I’m learning the parts of transcripts and listening to depositions and hearings. So far it is interesting. It was a bit confusing at first because some of the transcripts don’t match up with...

Diary of a Legal Transcriber Week 5

Back at it! And I’m happy to report another advancement. After going through both the original effort and my revised effort essentially side-by-side, there was a clear winner. The winner was the revised version, but that’s not really a surprise....