Legal Transcription Technology Jobs

Build AI-powered transcription for courts, depositions, and legal discovery. Accuracy, speaker identification, and legal terminology expertise required.

31
Open Positions
$135K-$215K
Average Salary
99%+
Required Accuracy

Why Legal Transcription Technology?

Legal proceedings generate millions of hours of audio annually—courtroom proceedings, depositions, arbitrations, and hearings. Traditionally transcribed by court reporters at $3-7 per page, the legal industry is rapidly adopting AI-powered transcription to reduce costs and turnaround times.

The legal transcription market is unique because:

⚖️ Legal Transcription Challenges

Key Technical Hurdles: Multiple overlapping speakers (cross-examination, objections). Varied audio quality (phone depositions, courtroom acoustics). Domain-specific language (case law citations, procedural terms). Formatting complexity (exhibit markers, timestamps, page/line numbers). Human-in-the-loop verification required for certification.

What You'll Work On

Major Use Cases

Court Proceedings

Real-time and post-hearing transcription of trials, hearings, and oral arguments.

  • Criminal trials
  • Civil litigation
  • Appellate court hearings
  • Administrative hearings

Depositions

Pre-trial witness testimony transcription. Often phone or video conferencing.

  • Expert witness depositions
  • Fact witness testimony
  • Remote/video depositions
  • Multi-day depositions

Legal Discovery

Transcribing recorded calls, meetings, and interviews for evidence review.

  • Wiretap/surveillance recordings
  • Body camera footage audio
  • Interview recordings
  • Recorded phone calls

Legal Research & AI

Making legal proceedings searchable and analyzable for AI legal tools.

  • Case law databases
  • Legal analytics platforms
  • AI legal assistants
  • Precedent research

Who's Hiring

Legal Tech Startups:

Established Players:

Legal Tech Platforms:

Latest Legal Transcription Technology Jobs

Senior ML Engineer - Legal Transcription

Verbit
$165K - $215K
📍 New York, NY / Remote 💼 Full-Time ⏱️ Posted 2 days ago

Build AI transcription for legal proceedings with 99%+ accuracy. Fine-tune Whisper on legal corpora, optimize speaker diarization for courtroom scenarios, and develop confidence scoring for quality assurance. Work with legal partners to ensure court-admissible transcripts.

Legal ASR Whisper Speaker Diarization PyTorch Remote OK
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Speech Recognition Engineer - Court Transcription

Rev
$150K - $195K
📍 San Francisco, CA / Austin, TX 💼 Full-Time ⏱️ Posted 5 days ago

Enhance ASR for legal domain. Build custom language models for legal terminology, improve accuracy on courtroom audio, and optimize human-in-the-loop workflows. Focus on deposition and court proceeding transcription at scale.

ASR Legal Domain Language Modeling Human-in-the-Loop Python
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Staff NLP Engineer - Legal AI

Casetext (Thomson Reuters)
$180K - $240K
📍 San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) 💼 Full-Time ⏱️ Posted 1 week ago

Build AI to transcribe and analyze legal proceedings for CoCounsel AI legal assistant. Combine ASR with legal NLP to extract case citations, procedural events, and legal arguments. Integrate with LexisNexis legal databases.

Legal NLP ASR GPT-4 Legal Research Thomson Reuters
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ML Engineer - Deposition Transcription

Otter.ai
$155K - $205K
📍 Mountain View, CA / Remote 💼 Full-Time ⏱️ Posted 3 days ago

Adapt Otter's ASR for legal depositions. Work with court reporters to ensure transcript quality meets legal standards. Build features for exhibit identification, speaker labeling (attorneys, witnesses), and court-compliant formatting.

ASR Legal Tech Whisper Speaker ID Remote
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Senior ASR Engineer - Legal Discovery

Relativity (Legal Tech)
$145K - $190K
📍 Chicago, IL / Remote 💼 Full-Time ⏱️ Posted 4 days ago

Build ASR for e-discovery platform processing millions of hours of legal audio. Focus on searchability, speaker diarization, and integration with document review workflows. Support multi-language transcription for international cases.

E-Discovery ASR Search Multilingual Remote OK
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Required Skills & Qualifications

Core Technical Skills

Legal Domain Knowledge

Desirable Experience

Education

Salary Ranges by Company Type

Legal Tech Startups (Verbit, Otter Legal)

$155K - $215K

  • Higher equity (0.1-0.5%)
  • Fast-paced innovation
  • Direct legal partner interaction
  • Startup risk/reward

Established (Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, Rev)

$135K - $195K

  • Stable, proven businesses
  • Comprehensive benefits
  • Work-life balance
  • Lower equity upside

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