Legal Transcription Services

Legal Transcription Services maintained by Delia Venables

This page was last updated on May 9th.

Note - this page looks at transcription services, i.e. the user dictates work which is sent, usually via the internet, to a secretarial service (sometimes abroad) which processes the audio into the finished document. Associated services can proof read or develop the text in pre defined ways. Companies providing the equipment for digital dictation are described on a separate page here.

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1st Class Secretarial Services offer a range of office-based secretarial skills to a wide range of companies in Edinburgh and the East of Scotland. Services include digital transcription, tape transcription, copy typing and many other key services available on an ad-hoc basis. Services can be provided at the point the client needs it - whether a small service or a large one. They offer a rapid digital transcription service which allows for clients to upload files onto a secure server; the recordings are downloaded and transcribed and then uploaded back onto the server for the client to download when he/she is ready for them.

A1 Secretarial Services offers various secretarial, administration and typing services for everyone and anyone and in particular small businesses and entrepreneurs based in Essex. They are happy to provide a service for “one-off” work requests as well as regular assignments whether these are for an updated CV, for word processing or transcription services.

Alliance of UK Virtual Assistants with a directory of 150 members. As the site says: "A Virtual Assistant (VA) is your partner in business. VAs work from their own offices, sometimes but not always in their home. Many of them are highly skilled individuals who are adept at using the Internet and can offer almost all the office support services you would expect to find in a large multinational organisation. They can offer you a variety of skills, from Archiving documents to installing ZoneAlarm firewalls and all the other tasks in between." Transcription services can be found here.

Alphabet Secretarial Services are experts in transcription and can transcribe sensitive and highly confidential material. They are specialists in transcribing PACE interviews and have the relevant equipment to provide accurate and precise time stamped transcripts. They can also provide under caution interviews, police interviews for trial proceedings, or disciplinary hearings.

AMR Choice Solutions provides a high quality digital and tape transcription service to a variety of businesses and individuals. They offer general, medical and legal transcription as well as a wide range of virtual secretarial services.

AMVOA (Andrea Marchant, Virtual Office Assistant) specialises in assisting small businesses and start-ups, so whether you need simple secretarial or administrative help on an ad hoc basis to cover sickness or holiday, or an assistant on a more regular basis to help manage your office or take care of your marketing needs, AMVOA has the complete range of business services to provide the solution you are looking for.

Angel Secretarial Services has been serving the Dorset community since 2004. With over 30 years experience (15 of those years within law firms), they offer a precise and reliable service. In addition, friendly and professional staff are available to answer any questions there may be. They can work with any media - tapes or digital, even scanned scraps of paper will be accurately and professionally transformed into the documents required with a quick turnaround.

Apple Transcription - a Tape Transcription Panel member provides fast, efficient and cost-effective digital and analogue transcription services. Work is carried out by highly qualified UK-based legal secretaries - turnaround times from two hours. All transcripts reviewed by experienced proof readers. Free help, advice and on loan equipment to legal firms and barristers chambers moving to digital dictation.

A Professional Touch Typing Service provides a cost effective alternative to expensive and unreliable temping agencies, available 24hrs a day 7 days a week. They can provide a service to suit all users from an individual with a single piece of work to a business client who requires a more comprehensive typing service. They can transcribe standard audio tapes, mini or steno cassettes, as well as DSS and WAV digital sound files. Once transcribed, the work can be e-mailed, posted or delivered. They also offer a mail forwarding service to any specified address, anywhere in the world, either at pre-arranged intervals or as it is received.

Assured Transcription provides fast and accurate audio typing and digital transcription to professionals and businesses across the UK. Dictation can be received, and completed transcripts returned, by email, secure file transfer over the internet or by post as required. All work is completed quickly and accurately, with excellent standards of spelling, grammar and presentation, by a highly experienced and conscientious typist. Free trial of digital voice recorder enables clients to try before they buy.

Associated Verbatim Reporters (AVR), established in 1994, provide digital and tape transcription services to a wide range of organisations including Government Agencies, Police Forces, Legal and Medical Professionals, Universities and Corporate Bodies. They provide many services such as court hearings, police interviews, visual transcription, recording services, professionals’ meetings and copy typing.

Avonlea Services are a wholly UK based outsourced service providing professional, confidential audio and video transcription. There is a fast turnaround for businesses of all sizes. Whether the input is analogue tapes, digital files or handwritten documents, they will produce documents to the required specification to the highest quality and meet agreed deadlines.

DeeWP & Audiosec is a competitively priced audio transcription service with over 24 years experience - but now using all the latest technology. Clients range from students wanting one to one interviews transcribed as part of their course work, to web cast transcription of quarterly financial reports, where accuracy and timeliness are paramount. The company is headed by Dee Briston and the services receive some rave reviews on the site.

Dictate2us provides transcription services to businesses and professions including individual barristers and firms of solicitors.

DictateNow is one of the largest digital dictation outsourcing companies in the UK.They work with over 400 law firms, Members of Parliament and surveyors providing 7 days/week dictation outsourcing. With over 100 qualified secretaries based in the UK, 98% of dictations are returned to the client in under 45 minutes.

DigiSec deals with all areas of legal work along with Risk Assessments, CAFCAS Reports, PACE interviews, Barrister’s Advices and variety of other work. Cathy Warner can provide you with high quality transcripts on a regular basis, one off or Ad Hoc. She is equipped to transcribe all audio formats (just send digital files by email or through the website) and Mini, Micro, PACE cassette formats (you can send your recorded cassettes by post or courier or local collection can be arranged). Confidentiality and the need for professionalism are paramount.

Digital Secretary is a UK based service that provides customers with virtual secretarial services through the use of digital transcription. They are specialists in UK legal transcription and UK medical transcription.

Digital Transcription for Lawyers (DTFL) was formed by Annabel Hurdman for the legal profession and has grown rapidly, offering a service which is accurate, inexpensive and user friendly. Dictation is e-mailed direct from the user's PC or hand held dictation machine to DTFL, where it is transcribed by Annabel and her team of UK legal secretaries experienced in all areas of the law. All work is confidential, and dictation received by 1.00pm is returned the same day on the user's own templates, or on templates created for the user. DTFL can cater for large volume dictation or smaller one-off projects, whether for a sole practitioner, or a small, medium or large firm. The service is "on demand" and comes at a fraction of the cost of secretarial staff.

e-type Secretarial Services provides a Digital Dictation Service, concentrating on Insurance companies and Solicitors. It is a British company providing accurate and timely digital dictation on companies' own Letterhead.

Fingertips Typing Services provides transcription services for a wide range of companies and individuals, including lawyers. The types of work covered include Audio transcription, Copy typing, Presentations using Microsoft Powerpoint, Data entry and spreadsheets using Excel and Access, Mailmerges and Word processing.

Freelance Office Services & Virtual Assistance (FOSVA) provide transcription but also many other types of office services to a number of types of business, including lawyers. They can provide backup to a whole "virtual office" if required.

Kemp Professional Services provide Digital Transcription for Legal Professionals and Law Businesses. The principal, Lesley Kemp, has for some years now transcribed Immigration Determinations for an Immigration Judge and she would welcome contact from other Immigration Judges who are seeking an independent transcriber for their Determinations. She will be happy to provide references as required.

Lawscript is a Scottish Company specifically tailored to the Scottish Legal Profession. They aim to fill the gap between the output of the fee earner and the capacity of their own secretarial staff. Digital Technology provides the fee earner with a platform to expand the working day out with the normal 9 to 5, increasing profit and reducing overheads. Based in Kilncraigs, Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Lawscript's offices are centrally located for access to all of Central Scotland's major road and rail links and within 40 minutes of Edinburgh and Glasgow Airports. All work is transcribed in Alloa by the team of legal secretaries and paralegals giving accuracy levels in excess of 99.5%. They do not use home workers or outsource our work offshore.

Lawscript NI is an outsourced transcription resource based in Northern Ireland and focussed on providing a quality service to small to medium sized law firms in Ireland as an alternative to using temporary staff. Many firms in Northern Ireland are unwilling to go down the outsourcing route where it may impact on existing staff. Therefore, they focus on complementing the existing support staff when there is a resource shortage as a result of holidays, sick leave and maternity.

Legal Typing Ltd provide a Professional Legal Transcription Service. It works like an on call legal secretary for all your urgent typing needs and they offer an overnight and weekend service. They are legal specialists and all transcription is performed by an experienced legal secretary under the supervision of a lawyer holding a current practising certificate. They transcribe: letters, opinions, police interviews, affidavits, court applications, opening and closing addresses, briefs of evidence, written submissions, wills, notices of proceedings, statements of claims, etc.

Memorandum.es offers an online transcription service for all outsourced typing and secretarial needs. The company is run by Maureen Moran who is based in Spain, having moved from the UK last summer. She has over 35 years' experience in the secretarial field in many fields but with a particular preference for legal secretarial work.

My Letters offers an easier, more efficient and cost effective way to type letters, where a business cannot afford a secretary or does not want to employ one. The user dictates letters over the telephone or uses a dictation machine connected to a PC. A Team of typing experts types up the letters and the user collects the letters on-line the next day. Billing is simple and straightforward - dictation only costs from 3.5p per line or dictation and transcription costs from 12p per line.

NWTyping is based in Liverpool and was established by Amanda Ramsden, who has over 17 years transcription experience including over 15 years as a legal secretary. The company provides quality transcription services to meet typing requirements of businesses and individuals all over the world. They can transcribe from Digital Voice Files, Mini Cassette, standard size audio cassettes and hand written text

Out of Hours Typing Ltd is a new transcription company based in Somerset which offers a fast turnaround time (work received by 8 p.m. returned by 10 a.m. the next working day) using Dictaphone Walkabout digital dictation units, one of the simplest systems to use. There are no start up costs and there is no minimum contract.

OutSec Ltd is a British company with teams of highly experienced legal secretaries providing a dedicated internet transcription service from dictated sound files. Clients are allocated their own personal named British secretary who will work with them on a continuous basis ensuring that the quality of work is second to none. This personal tailor-made service enables companies to outsource typing whilst enabling in-house personnel to concentrate on core efficiencies. OutSec FileManager provides a secure encrypted web-based file transfer system for increased confidentiality. OutSec were awarded the DTI E-Commerce Award 2004 for innovation and gained Investor in People status in March 2005.

Outsource Dictation specialise in legal and medical transcription. They work with you to provide accurate, cost effective typing. Their existing customers are in the legal and medical professions in the UK and USA. There is a free no obligation trial available, and references from existing customers.

Outsource Legal Solutions (OLS) is a digital transcription service predominantly for the legal sectoris run by husband and wife team Carol and Paul Devine in rural East Anglia. They give their customers access to qualified secretaries via simple emails. Their digital transcription service and first hand experience is applicable to Crime, Personal Injury, Wills & Probate, Civil Litigation, Family Law, Conveyancing and Bills of Costs, including Points of Dispute and they will happily transcribe telephone conferences, symposia and also carry out engrossment of draft documents. All work carried out by OLS is covered by Non Disclosure Agreement, signed by all parties.

Overnight Typing provides a guaranteed overnight typing service of digital audio files. The user sends the digital dictation to the company and has the completed work back in the inbox by 8am the following morning UK time. They work with a range of companies and organisations, from large corporations to sole traders, and including lawyers, all over the UK. They can transcribe ALL digital audio files (.DSS, .WAV, .MP3, .WMA, etc.).

Penguin Transcription offer professional and affordable audio transcription services. They are a small team of UK-based transcription experts providing transcripts from a wide range of audio types. They have experience of legal dictation as well as transcribing interviews and disciplinary hearings.

PK Typing Services provide Word Processing, Copy typing, Audio Dictation, Internet research, Document layout and other services. The work is carried out by Pauline Kelly, an experienced legal secretary.

QuickSec secretarial services are digital transcription specialists who provide a bespoke, high quality virtual secretarial service. They have a professional team of digital transcriptionists who have experience in a range of fields, including law. They provide a low cost, fast and efficient service. All transcriptionists are UK based with years of experience in the secretarial and transcription field.

Secretary4hire is the freelance virtual secretarial business created and managed by Marj Beattie, a trained secretary and PA with 25 years experience. The team is flexible and efficient.

solscribe provides Solicitors with an outsourced transcription service. By combining excellent UK based legal secretaries with premium web based technology they offer a complete solution that is secure, fast and simple. They have had 14 years of combined experience in the digital dictation and IT systems build sectors, enabling them to see what Solicitors need in terms of security, confidentiality and speed. You do not need to add any software to your computer system - you just need access to the internet. You can try out the service to see how simple and cost effective outsourcing transcription can be.

Swift Type is a UK based Limited Company providing a professional digital transcription service to legal firms throughout the UK. Secretaries spend a lot of time transcribing long Witness Statements, Attendance Notes, Instructions to Counsel/Experts, Leases etc rather than getting on with more pressing matters. Using Swift Type will ease the pressure on in house staff and cut down on backlogs which in most cases contain urgent letters, instructions etc, which would otherwise be left for days un-typed!

Take Note Ltd is a notetaking and transcription company based in Farringdon, Central London. they specialise in transcription for the market research industry and the media but also work in all industries for conferences and meetings.

TalkType is an outsourced audio typing and transcription service. The service is carried out by experienced, professional audio secretaries, transcribers and typists, including many trained legal secretaries. They can type audio recordings of all kinds, including both Dictaphone cassette (analogue) recordings and sound files produced by dictation into today's digital Dictaphones and digital dictation systems. The service uses an internet connection to transfer the recordings and then the finished work back again.

The Transcription Company (formerly Dataplus Solutions) provides an online digital transcription service for solicitors and legal professionals for their dictated material. Also undertake audio transcription of interviews, conferences, focus groups, teleconferences, dictated material such as correspondence or reports, seminars, meetings and lectures.They use experienced, qualified UK-ONLY transcribers with total confidentiality guaranteed.

Two Main is a new mobile digital recording and transcription company based near Heathrow, serving the whole of the UK. With years of courtroom and corporate event experience, they offer an end-to-end audio to text service that is both professional and personal. They also offer a fast, meticulous and affordable transcription only service.

TP Transcription Services is part of the Ten-Percent group of websites, and has been operating for over 5 years, assisting law firms across the UK with transcripts of police station interviews, child and witness interviews, videos, tapes, covert surveillance operation recordings and CCTV recordings. Run by a solicitor, using UK based, native english speaking legal secretaries, with full confidentiality assured including the signing of undertakings when needed. Also specialising in bulk orders for Universities and government departments including the Office of Fair Trading.

Total Typing supplies a comprehensive virtual secretarial service wherever the user is based in the English speaking world. The company has over 25 years' experience in transcription and copy typing in various fields such as legal, medical and all aspects of office administration.

Type Free provides an affordable transcription service for lawyers. No software to load, no licence to buy, no unsecure email delivery, & no hassle is the promise made. Documents are uploaded online and posted back onto a secure intranet, spellchecked and formatted as required. The service is suitable for the digital dictation enabled individual lawyer, sole practitioner, legal firm, firm of solicitors, barristers’ Chambers, busy legal executive, local authority legal or litigation department and the in-house corporate lawyer. Equipment can also be supplied or leased if required.

Typing Solutions provides a professional, low cost, efficient transcription service for all audio typing and transcription requirements. They undertake all types of transcription and audio typing including Correspondence, Reports, Theses, Dissertations, Conferences, Focus Groups, Research Interviews, General correspondence, Inventories and Estate Agent Details. They can transcribe from all digital audio formats, mini cassette, standard cassette, CDs and handwritten copies.

UK Transcription Services offer a range of office outsourcing services. The company is based in Bristol with links in London. They also provide audio hire equipment and offer a range of in-house booklet publishing services.

UKTyping.com is a business operated since 1992 by solicitors in London who offer a legal transcription service for dictation. The result of the lawyer's dictation (using a hand-held Dicatphone) is sent to the company by email or over the UKTyping website and secretaries at the company’s offices in India or South Africa, working various shifts, prepare the document according to the user's house style and requirements generally. Dictation by telephone is also available.

Virtual Secretarial Services offers a full range of secretarial, transcription and I.T. services at unbeatable prices. They are a small, family run business based in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. They are a member of the Alliance of UK Virtual Assistants.

Voicepath specialises in providing fast, high quality & secure transcription services to law firms. 100% UK based, all typists are experienced legal secretaries and every document is proof read for accuracy by an independent quality control team. Full integrations with all the major digital dictation systems mean that it’s as easy to send a dictation to Voicepath as it is to an internal secretary. ISO 9001:2000 certified since 2007.

WNT Legal is a legal transcription services company. They provide legal audio transcription and legal typing services to companies throughout the UK. They undertake legal transcription services of any size of document, ranging from commercial contracts, employment contracts, compromise agreements, witness statements, tenancy agreements and opinions, through to reports, memos and day to day correspondence.

WJS Secretarial Services provide legal secretarial & transcription services to lawyers in the UK and the US. They provide transcription of one to one interviews, group transcription, dictation, copy typing, mail shots, telephone call handling solutions, secretarial services, PA services and teleconference transcription. They transcribe from a wide variety of material: digital and analogue, handwritten, faxed, by post, by internet transfer, by hand.

WordWave International describes itself as "The world's leading voice-to-text service provider". The company was formed in 1983 with Smith Bernal and has grown to be part of the largest international court reporting, transcription and broadcast-subtitling company in the world. There is a wide range of services offered that enable the user to capture and empower the spoken word. A s ervice called Talkwriteback provides digital recording and transcription from digital recordings. There is a real-time stenography service available, often used in courts and mediation situations. This uses software called LiveNote. Talkwriteback and Smith Bernal are part of LegaLink, the global leader in court transcription, reporting and videography.

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Legal Transcription Services maintained by Delia Venables

Legal Transcription Services
maintained by Delia Venables