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Legal Transcription Services
A deposition isn't useful until someone can search it. Magellan transcribes depositions, hearings, interviews and recorded statements into accurate, speaker-labelled transcripts in your firm's format. We run it as a managed service, with a quality review on every file and turnaround committed up front.
At a Glance
| Best For | Litigation practices with a steady flow of recorded depositions, hearings and interviews, and firms whose paralegals are transcribing audio instead of working the case |
| Core Support | Deposition transcription · court hearings and proceedings · witness and client interviews · recorded statements and interrogations · arbitration and mediation sessions · audio and video evidence |
| Delivery | A managed service run by Magellan: trained transcriptionists, a quality review on every file, and committed turnaround, working from the recordings you provide and to your transcript format |
A recording nobody has transcribed is evidence nobody can use
Recorded testimony piles up fastest when a case is busiest. Depositions, hearing audio, client interviews and recorded calls all have to be read, searched and quoted, and none of that can happen until the words are on the page.
So the work goes to whoever is free: a paralegal with headphones, or an associate scrubbing through the recording for the one answer they need. It is slow and expensive, and it is how a misheard name or a dropped "not" ends up quoted in a motion.
Transcription doesn't need legal judgment. It needs a trained ear, a consistent format and a second person checking the work. That is an operation, not something to fit into a spare hour. Magellan has supported professional-services clients since 2005.
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What We Transcribe
Your Format, Your Conventions
A transcript is only useful in the form your firm already works in. We work to your specification: verbatim or clean verbatim, speaker labels as you name them, timestamps at the interval you set, and page and line numbering your attorneys can cite. Transcripts come back in your template, so they drop straight into the matter file.
Send us a sample transcript and your style notes at the start, and give feedback on the first few files. After that, the corrections stop repeating.
A Managed Service, Run to Your Deadlines
Transcription is an operation we run, not a person you manage. Magellan supplies the transcriptionists, the trainers and the quality review, and commits to turnaround you can plan a deposition schedule around. You supply the recordings, the format and the deadline.
What Magellan provides
- Trained legal transcriptionists, with team leads and quality review over them
- Every transcript checked against the audio and your specification before it comes back
- Turnaround commitments set up front by recording type and volume
- Capacity that absorbs a heavy deposition week without a hiring cycle
What your firm provides
- The recordings, through the secure transfer method agreed at onboarding
- Your transcript format and style conventions
- Speaker names, case caption and spellings of names and terms of art
- Deadlines and priority order
Why Firms Outsource Legal Transcription
Transcribed by Us, Relied On by Your Attorneys
Our transcripts are working transcripts, prepared from the recordings you supply for your team to review and use. They are not certified transcripts or official records. Where a court or a rule requires a certified transcript from a court reporter, that requirement stays with the reporter. Your attorneys decide what the testimony means, what to quote, and what to file.
Compliance and Data Security, Built In
Transcription means hearing everything: the testimony, the client's own account, and the parts of a recording that never make it into a filing. Every Magellan staff member signs a confidentiality agreement enforceable under Philippine law before assignment, and access is limited to the team working your firm. Recordings and transcripts move through the secure transfer method agreed at onboarding, not email. Magellan operates under ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and GDPR compliance.
Magellan holds ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and GDPR compliance — the recognized benchmarks for information security and data protection. See our certifications.
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Continuous data backup with off-site copies, a co-location plan with a backup center outside a 10-mile radius, and power-blackout protection — so work on your matters doesn't stop when circumstances change.
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