Low Cost Legal Transcription and Globalization
Globalization and the Internet are a boon not only to the legal transcription industry but also to the entire legal outsourcing and the booming BPO industry. It is not just legal transcription that gets outsourced. Forrester Research had projected that that over $4 billion of legal work will be outsourced to India by 2015. With the opening up of the free market economy and the revolution created by the concept of outsourcing, legal transcription and many other legal services (like legal documentation, legal research, litigation support etc) can also be now be outsourced and expertise can be availed from professionals who might be located anywhere on the globe.
Law firms, court houses and advocates can order instant legal transcription services by the use of different technologies Dictations can be recorded on a tape or a recording machine or a PC, and the audio files can be sent over on the Internet for transcription. Or it can be directly sent by just dictating on a telephone. The dictations over the telephones just get recorded at a different location and this is immediately worked upon to produce transcripts of high quality with the work being supervised under legally qualified and experienced law professionals.
Outsourcing of legal transcription to countries like India allows for getting low cost transcription with current rates being as low as 8 (eight) cents per line of work. Most companies now take a lot of care about the security of all documents that are sent online. This is possible by encryption of all the files before transmission over the web. By outsourcing legal transcription works to professional firms who use cutting edge technologies and one can now be assured of’
Total security
Low turnaround time
High accuracy
Low price
Delivery in any format
Even though there are a few hassles and many challenges for the legal outsourcing sector including the 2008 recession, experts predict that there will be a steady growth in legal process outsourcing.
About the Author: The author of this article is John Kessel of Managed Outsource Solutions , a US based company that offers services in Legal Outsourcing and Legal Transcription for clients across the US.
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