Lastly, let us discuss the companies & service providers of Legal Transcription (LT) and the job opportunities in this field. Like any other job, Legal Transcriptions job depends upon the qualifications and the experience one posses. The benefit here is that you do not need to have a law degree. You can work online from home or office and have other options like continuing as legal assistant or Para- legal after gaining some experience.
There are some companies or services providers who are constantly on the look for good transcriptionists. BVS Trans Tech, which meets the transcription industry requirements of US, UK and Canada, is such a company which incessantly keeps inviting resumes from people who are qualified transcriptionists and have a certain amount of experience for the posts of Quality Analysts and Legal Transcriptionists.
The cost and turn around time for taking dictation or transcription is drastically reduced by outsourcing LT work. This shares the workload of the staff creating a better work environment.
Managed Outsource Solutions(MOS) is a US based legal outsourcing company that offers highly professional legal outsourcing services and undertakes long term and short term LT jobs and contracts from legal communities and clients in the US, Canada, Australia and UK. It provides round the clock services that too at competitive rates. It offers lowest turn around time, encrypted secure file transfer, delivery in desired format and friendly customer support.
There are also Law Offices who need assistance with LT jobs. One can often find the advertisements about Transcription Assistant who are required to transcribe the digital voice recorders (machine) into a Word document and check for spelling/grammar. The only job requirement is that he should have worked for a law office.
Law Firm, King & Spalding with more than 800 lawyers in Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Dubai, Frankfurt, Houston London and many more cities across the world has advertised for the opening of the position of Secretarial support to attorneys in the patent litigation group. The job description includes LT and maintenance of various records and documents. Similarly there are other Law firms which are continuously on the look to find out more support in form of legal secretaries and assistants for their attorneys.
One more potential employer in LT field is the Websites. They advertise and chose the appropriate candidate who can work from home or office for a certain number of hours and is paid on hourly basis depending upon the number of words and the quality of work done. Some of them are managedoutsource.com and medtrans.net. PCMoneyMaker.Net is another site which offers LT job for home based people and freelance Transcriptionists.
In addition to the above jobs, a Legal Transcriptionist, later on May also chose to join the paralegals. Then one may even join the government sector. Para Legal who is also known as the Legal Assistants help lawyers prepare legal material for activities such as hearing, trials, and corporate meetings. They research information that the lawyer uses, write clearly about complex issues, keep track of details and work in office and law libraries. They need to be good in organizing and Communication skills. One more paralegal is a Court Reporter whose job is to take verbatim reports by using abbreviations of what people say during the proceedings of the Court which is later on used in LT. Sometimes a court reporter does real-time transcribing too! For this job one has to be familiar with the legal as well as the court lingo and proceeding in detail. Also one has to continuously update own computer dictionary.
The salaries of the paralegal depends on a number of factors such as education, experience, and employer (federal/local/state govt) but it ranges somewhere between $ 40,000 to 50,000.As far as the rest of the employers, they also pay handsomely and one can definitely say that LT is a very lucrative career option.
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