Multinational law firms, and U.S. firms whose matters cross borders, handle M&A, intellectual property, tax, international arbitration and investigations that run across several jurisdictions at once. That work produces recordings in many places: witness interviews in different offices, depositions, arbitration hearings, calls with local counsel abroad. Turning them into accurate, consistent written records is where many firms struggle. An outsourced legal transcription service takes that work off the matter team. It is one of the most common outsourced legal services firms rely on.
How an Outsourced Legal Transcription Service Boosts Multinational Law Firms
- Productivity Boost: An outsourced legal transcription service returns transcripts on a turnaround agreed up front, so interviews and hearings don’t sit waiting for someone in-house to type them. That’s where most of the productivity gain comes from.
- Scalability: An outsourced legal transcription service is scalable enough to handle a huge number of depositions, hearings, and client interviews. Thus, multinational law firms won’t have to worry about possible bottlenecks anymore, thanks to outsourcing.
- A Record You Can Rely On: Every transcript is checked against the audio before it comes back, and passages that can’t be heard are marked with a timestamp rather than guessed at.
- Efficiency Boost: Since multinational law firms won’t have to do time-consuming legal transcription tasks anymore, they will have more time to focus on important revenue-generating tasks. Thus, multinational law firms will find it easier to achieve sustained growth as they become more efficient.
Why Choose Magellan Solutions for an Outsourced Legal Transcription Service?
- Expertise: We have experts in providing an outsourced legal transcription service with impressive knowledge, skills, and experience. Our experts undergo consistent training as part of their continuous improvement. Thus, multinational law firms should consider hiring us as their outsourcing partner given our expertise.
- Cost Reduction: There is no need for multinational law firms to continue hiring and training additional legal transcriptionists. Instead, multinational law firms can rely on us as provider of an outsourced legal transcription service to achieve substantial cost reduction. Multinational law firms will appreciate the significant cost savings they can invest in future opportunities. Philippine delivery runs 40–60% below onshore staffing.
- Confidentiality: Every staff member signs a confidentiality agreement, enforceable under Philippine law, before assignment, and access is limited to the team working your account. Magellan operates under ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and GDPR compliance (see our certifications).
- Collaborative Approach: We understand that multinational law firms may have needs and preferences regarding our outsourced legal transcription services. We are ready to collaborate with multinational law firms to find out how we can help. We are confident that we can help multinational law firms through collaboration.
Transcription on Cross-Border Matters
A matter that runs through several offices and jurisdictions puts different demands on transcription:
- One format across every office. Interviews recorded in London, Singapore and New York come back with the same speaker conventions, timestamps and layout, so the matter team isn’t reconciling three styles.
- Working across time zones. The Philippine working day falls during the U.S. night, so recordings sent at the close of business can be worked on while your team is offline.
- Many speakers, many accents. Arbitration hearings and multi-party calls are labelled speaker by speaker, and anything unclear is marked, not guessed.
- Recordings in other languages. Where interviews or evidence aren’t in English, see multilingual legal transcription.
- Data protection that travels. Recordings from cross-border matters can fall under more than one privacy regime. Ask any provider who can access your files, where they are stored, and how access ends when the engagement does.
These are working transcripts for your team. Where a certified deposition or court transcript is required, it comes from the court reporter.
The Bottom Line
Multinational law firms need accurate written records of depositions, hearings and interviews across every office and jurisdiction they work in. The good thing is that multinational law firms can take action and experience the benefits of outsourcing. However, multinational law firms should also choose the right outsourcing to achieve the best results. Multinational law firms should choose a reliable and proven outsourcing partner to maximize the benefits of outsourcing.
Interested in an Outsourced Legal Transcription Service?
If your firm has recordings waiting across matters or offices, the next step is a short conversation about volume, format and how files will be exchanged. Legal transcription services has the full capability list, or contact us directly.
