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  • 1.  Transcribing a court hearing

    Posted 02-06-2018 12:18 PM
    I'm preparing a motion to modify an alimony award, and we wish to reference portions of a few prior hearings that were held. We have the audio recordings of the hearings on CD. My questions are:

    (1) do we need to have the recordings transcribed in order to be considered by the court?

    (2) will any transcription service work, or does it need to be a certified court reporter? Does anyone have suggestions for which company to use in either case?

    (3) does the entire hearing need to be transcribed, or can we have only the portions we need transcribed?

    I'm trying to do this in the lowest-cost way that still gets us what we need. Thank you everyone!

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  • 2.  RE: Transcribing a court hearing

    Posted 02-07-2018 08:08 AM
    I recommend you search through the threads in the family law messages because there was a discussion some time last year about what other attorneys in your situation did when cost and time was an issue. 



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  • 3.  RE: Transcribing a court hearing

    Posted 02-07-2018 07:14 PM

    In a motion for reconsideration a few months ago, I uploaded the court audio CD to Dropbox and put the link in my certification. I typed out the excerpted audio parts relevant to my motion, explained what I was doing, and referred the reader to my link. I lost the motion (sigh), but neither the judge nor my adversary objected to my referencing the court transcript as I did. I have no idea if this was how it should be done, but my client didn't have the money for the typed transcript.

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  • 4.  RE: Transcribing a court hearing

    Posted 02-07-2018 08:59 PM
    << In a motion for reconsideration a few months ago, I uploaded the court audio CD to Dropbox and put the link in my certification. I typed out the... -posted to the "Family Law Section" community>>

    Following an argument wherein a client convinced me I was wrong... I've used unofficial transcribers for motion attachments. For appeals, it must be an AOC-certified transcriber, but (as I was shown), there is no rule that requires it for motions or other uses, including trials (I suggest having the original recording available in case a question is raised), and with the incredible difference in price (like $7 per page versus $1 per minute) or less, if funds are an issue, I've since done it several times. The one the most recent client used was https://www.rev.com/ , but there's some companies in India where you upload the audio, give a credit card, and 24 hours later have a transcript.


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  • 5.  RE: Transcribing a court hearing

    Posted 02-07-2018 09:01 PM

    Remember that when ordering an audio recording of a court proceeding, you have to specify if you want standard audio format (90 minutes or so per CD) instead of standard / courtsmart (several hours per CD).


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