Frequently Asked Questions
At OutSec Legal, we are always happy to answer any questions you may have!
This is why we have created a searchable list of our FAQs. If you cannot find an answer why not call us on 020 7112 7527 and we will be happy to help.
Yes we do. OutSec Legal is the perfect solution for sole practitioners, barristers, law costs draftsmen and mediators all of whom need legal typing support on a pay-as-you-go basis without any contracting commitments or minimum spend.
OutSec Legal is the perfect solution for small boutique legal practices and barristers' chambers where it is cheaper to outsource transcription costs as opposed to employing typists themselves. OutSec Legal provides legal typing support on a pay-as-you-go basis without any commitments or minimum spend.
Yes, we do. OutSec Legal is perfect for all medium to large law firms and in-house legal departments. There are several benefits for medium to large law firms in outsourcing their legal transcription as it enables practices to:
Save money on office space.
Allow your team to focus more time on other tasks, which will increase revenue.
Reduce secretarial staff (completely or partially), and hence the need for costly office space.
Provide an effective solution to enable your fee-earning staff to work remotely, or to enable you to offer flexible working.
Provide further support to meet demand during periods of high workloads.
Provide a continuity solution that allows your firm to access typing support in times of absence. As well as upscaling support as your business grows, without the need to employ further staff.
Enable access to support when working from home.
Unfortunately, speech-to-text software still struggles with accuracy. There are also concerns regarding the security of recordings and the processing of these.
You may recall the article in the Guardian about Apple where we learned that: "Apple contractors regularly hear confidential medical information". And it wasn't just Apple: Google "admitted that contractors can access recordings made by Assistant, after some of its recordings were leaked".
Here at OutSec Legal, we have developed our own app for you to record and upload your audio transcription files securely and easily to us. Our professional legal transcriptionists will provide you with a more accurate transcription than you could obtain via speech-to-text software and they are covered by our confidentiality contracts. So with OutSec, you know who is processing your data and that it will be safe.
OutSec Legal has been transcribing confidential digital recordings and legal digital dictation files securely for over 20 years. Our software has been developed around stringent encryption standards required by the legal services sector.
We are registered with the ICO. OutSec Legal are also Cyber Essentials certified, which is required by all contractors who contract with UK Gov.
OutSec Legal leverage the Amazon/AWS Cloud to provide a highly secure and geo-redundant infrastructure, which provides the resilience and availability demanded by modern-day businesses. OutSec also ensures that every client transaction is protected with the latest SSL security.
OutSec’s FileManager system is password encrypted, with each client having their own username and password. The OutSec servers are secured using the latest encryption protocols:
Simplified disaster recovery and automatic failover
Encryption at rest and in-transit
Encrypted data transfer (256-bit using a 2048-bit key)
SHA-2 hashing for all certificates.
TLS cryptology.
You are able to contact OutSec Legal by email, phone and even by Skype. We will be happy to speak to you and provide you with any help or support that you need in using our service.
OutSec Legal has been designed from the ground up to provide services which law firms, barristers' chambers and other legal practices want and need.
OutSec Legal only transcribe legal digital dictation audio and video files to offer our unique set of services. These include legal transcription (single voice or multi voice) as well as legal document production, formatting and editing services.
OutSec Legal only transcribe files from legal practices, they do not transcribe files from other sectors. This makes our offering unique from other transcription companies in the market, where work is farmed out randomly to huge banks of typists (none of which have ever worked in the legal sector).
At OutSec we believe in having dedicated legal typists, transcriptionists and secretaries. Consequently, for each fee earner, we would allocate two experienced legal typists, transcriptionists or secretaries to carry out their work. All our transcriptionists have at least 10 years of experience in the legal sector. This allows your dedicated legal transcriptionists to build a bond, in the same way as an in-house secretary would.
Our legal transcriptionist team and our legal document production, formatting and editing team know exactly how legal documents should be laid out. This is because most have CILEX or legal secretarial qualifications in addition to their experience meaning they are the best in the industry.
Our passion for excellence and an eye for detail, alongside financial investment in the very latest technology, ensure OutSec Legal provide a first-class service with data security and confidentiality at the forefront.
Our close working relationship with our clients ensures that the OutSec Legal experience is one of excellence and a natural extension of your existing office.
At month-end, fully detailed by a per-line entry for each sound file received, its length and the time taken for transcription. Settlement terms are net 30 days. OutSec offer payments via BACS, WorldPay and PayPal.
OutSec Legal's multi voice transcriptionist team is made up of legal secretaries, legal transcriptionists and legal typists all of whom have worked in the legal sector for at least 10 years or more. Transcribing multiple voices can be a time consuming process. It requires a different set of skills to those who undertake single voice legal transcription or copy typing and requires a good ear for different voices and regional accents.
All our transcriptionists have been handpicked for their knowledge and expertise; they are also Microsoft Word© experts. Our team have advanced word processing skills including indexes and tables, footnotes and automatic numbering to name a few. Many of OutSec Legal's transcriptionist team have CILEX qualifications or Legal secretarial qualifications which means they understand legal terminology including commonly used Latin terms. This makes our multi voice legal transcriptionist team one of the best in the industry. All of our transcriptionists in our multi voice legal transcriptionist team have signed strict confidentiality agreements.
Yes. The advantage to OutSec Legal is we can flex to your needs and requirements. So if you have high workloads which has resulted in a backlog of typing work, we can help.
By using OutSec Legal, you can access a legal secretary, legal typist or legal transcriptionist in times of high workload or staff absences reducing the need of using expensive temporary staff to bridge the gap at a cheaper cost.
This is one of the reasons why many legal practices use OutSec Legal as part of their business continuity plan, so they have access to support as and when they need it.
Yes we can. We can transcribe recorded files from numerous remote meeting platforms including (but not limited to):
Yes, if you wish to retain all or part of your secretarial or admin team, we can still integrate to work seamlessly, so when workloads are high or you need additional assistance, we are here to help.
Legal transcription is the process of converting digital dictation recordings recorded by legal professionals (solicitors, barristers, paralegals, legal executives) and converting that digital dictation from speech into text. This conversion process is done by a legal transcriptionist, legal typist or legal secretary who then transcribes the text into digital legal documents and correspondence.
Our legal transcriptionist team transcribe our legal transcription work and it is made up of legal secretaries and legal typists all of whom have worked in the legal sector for at least 10 years or more. All our transcriptionists have been handpicked for their knowledge: they are all Microsoft Word© experts.
Many of our team of legal transcriptionists have CILEX qualifications or Legal secretarial qualifications and as such understand legal terminology including commonly used Latin terms.
This makes our team one of the best in the industry. All of our legal transcriptionists have signed strict confidentiality agreements, although we are always happy to sign bespoke ones for any client.
MHA Macintyre Hudson stated in their Legal Benchmarking Report for 2022, that income generation for law firms and legal practices could be improved by removing administrative tasks from fee earners. This enables them to generate more income. One way to do this is to encourage staff to dictate correspondence and documents to enable them to have more time, to generate more income by doing more billable hours or chargeable time. If you currently use an analogue tape system we can advise on how to make the switch to digital. If you do not have a digital dictation system in place, we can help too. So why not give us a call?
We can accept the following: wav, dss, wma, mp3, mp4, dvf, ds2, amr, dct, 3gp, m4a, m4v, wmv, mts, mov, opus, docm, xlsm, and srt.
Legal digital dictation is a method of recording speech digitally by a legal practitioner, which would be typed by a legal secretary, legal transcriptionist or typist thereby enabling it to go from speech to text. This would then be manipulated by the legal secretary, legal transcriptionist or legal typist into digital legal correspondence and legal documents.
Our legal transcriptionist team has extensive experience in the following areas of law (but not limited to): Criminal, Matrimonial, Family, Wills and Probate, Conveyancing - Residential and Commercial, Civil Litigation & Personal Injury, Criminal Litigation, Tort, Copyright (Music), Design and Patents, Banking Law, Debt, Insolvency and Bankruptcy, Public Law, Asylum and Immigration, Social Housing, Company Law, Employment Law, Charity, Commercial, Consumer, Human Rights and Clinical negligence.
We offer the following services for audio recordings and video recordings:
Meeting Minutes
This is the option when you require a concise record of a meeting, in the form of minutes. Some examples of where minutes might be useful include minutes of management team meetings, partnership meetings, board meetings or trustee meetings. Having minutes undertaken by staff outside of your practice enables an accurate, impartial third-party record of the main discussion points, decisions and action points. This can remove any minuting bias.
Intelligent Verbatim
This option enables one of our multi voice transcriptionists to take a common-sense approach filtering out words not relevant to the subject matter, such as all “umms”, “ahhs”, laughter and pauses. As a result, an “intelligent “ transcript of the recording is provided.
Edited Transcript
This is a full and accurate transcript that has been formalised and is often used by law lecturers or legal conference organisers. Any transcript is edited for readability and clarity.
Verbatim Transcript
A ‘word for word’ transcript which includes every utterance, cough, pause, umms, ahhs, and unfinished sentences, as well as stutters and stammers. In other words, it is a 100% accurate record of what was said.
Transcript with Time-Coded Text
Time stamping (also known as 'time coding') is where the time in hours, minutes and seconds is inserted into a transcript at specific intervals. It works as a marker of where particular text can be found in digital audio or video recordings, this can be useful for surveillance recordings where you may wish someone to listen to, or see a conversation or interaction taking place at a certain point in a recording. It is also useful for educational or training audio or video recordings, where you may need someone to listen or view a recording whilst reading text from a transcript.
Macintyre Hudson stated in their Legal Benchmarking Report for 2022, that income generation for law firms and legal practices could be improved by removing administrative tasks from solicitors and fee earners, to enable them to generate more chargeable hours and increase income. This includes reducing typing and replacing it with digital dictation instead, which is a more cost-effective solution.
The reason why dictating a document is more cost-effective than typing a document yourself comes down to two factors: the first is that we speak faster than anyone can physically type (as shown by the stats below):
"The average person types between 38 and 40 words per minute"; and a "good rate of speech ranges between 140-160 words per minute".
Secondly, a fee earner's chargeable rate will always be higher than an outsourced typist's hourly rate for doing the same task. Simply dictating gives fee earners up to 40% more time to increase those important chargeable hours and billable time, meaning they can generate additional income.
If we were to look at a fee earner typing for two hours (bespoke letters, emails and amending documents), what chargeable time has been lost after you deduct OutSec Legal's costs of transcribing your legal digital dictation? If we take court-approved rates for Solicitors in London: a Grade A Solicitor (at £512 per hour) who spends two hours typing their own documents or emails could lose their legal practice up to £721.20 in chargeable time (as opposed to dictating and using OutSec Legal). Whilst a Grade D lawyer (at £186 per hour) could lose their firm up to £232.20.
No. At the start of your OutSec Legal journey, we provide you with some helpful guidelines as well as a sample dictation for you to listen to, to help you on your digital dictation and transcription journey.
OutSec Legal recruit the creme de la creme of legal transcriptionists who type, edit and perfect dictation when needed. This is what gives OutSec Legal the edge over other providers in the legal transcription market.
Your OutSec Legal transcriptionist is proactive in completing the work and typing additional helpful notes to help you improve the working relationship and reach digital dictation perfection.
Do not worry, this is part and parcel of the OutSec Legal service and you are in safe hands!
Yes. Currently, we have clients who use case management and practice management systems such as Proclaim, ALB, Ochresoft, Intelliworks, LEAP, Visualfiles. We have had clients who have used other case management or practice management software in the past which we have used before. If you wish us to type directly into your case management system, please speak with Mark Hope on 020 7112 7528 who will be happy to help.
We are aware that some legal practices will have invested in leading digital dictation software platforms and digital recorders. OutSec Legal can integrate with most systems (or receive files from these), These include (but are not limited to): BigHand, Dictamen, Olympus ODMS, Philips Speechwrite and many more. Please speak with Mark Hope on 020 7112 7527.
To upload a document you must upload a sound file at the same time using OutSec FileManager. Unfortunately at the current time, only one document and one soundfile can be uploaded. However, if you have multiple documents, please speak with Mark Hope who will be able to help in this regard.
Your template or document must be named the same as your audio file. So, if your audio file was named: NewClient_A1384.wav.
Your document would need to be named: NewClient_A1384. So the only difference would be the file extension. (So if it was a Microsoft Word document that you were uploading it would be NewClient_A1384.doc).
We accept documents in the following formats: pdf, rtf, doc, docm, docx, ppt, pptx, xls, xlxs, xcl, XML and dot.
Yes. Macintyre Hudson stated in their Legal Benchmarking Report for 2022, that income generation for law firms and legal practices could be improved by removing administrative tasks from fee earners, to enable them to generate more income. This includes typing and replacing it with digital dictation instead.
The reason why dictating a document is more cost-effective than typing a document yourself comes down to two factors. The first is we speak faster than anyone can physically type (as shown by the stats below):
“The average person types between 38 and 40 words per minute”; and
A “good rate of speech ranges between 140 -160 words per minute.”
Secondly, a fee earner's charge-out rates will always be higher than an outsourced typist's rate for doing the same task.
Therefore, simply dictating gives fee earners up to 40% more time to increase those all-important chargeable hours and billable time, meaning they can income generate rather than wasting their valuable time.
Theodora Ahilas from Maurice Blackburn said:
So if we look at a fee earner typing for two hours (whether that be bespoke letters, emails and amending documents), what chargeable time has been lost after you deduct OutSec Legal's costs of transcribing your legal digital dictation?
Taking Court approved rates for Solicitors in London:
A Grade A Solicitor (at £566 per hour) who spends two hours typing their own documents or emails could lose their legal practice up to £849 in chargeable time (as opposed to dictating and using OutSec Legal).
A Grade D lawyer (at £205 per hour) could lose their firm up to £257.10
Single voice legal transcription is the process of converting digital dictation recordings recorded by a solicitor, a barrister or other legal professional from speech to text by a legal transcriptionist, legal typist or legal secretary who then transcribes the text into digital legal documents and correspondence.
Multi-voice transcription is where a digital recording (either in an audio or video format) contains more than one voice which needs transcribing from speech into text so you have a transcribed written record of that dialogue. These audio and video recordings could be of partnership meetings, meetings between your client and Counsel, surveillance footage or recordings, grievance and disciplinary meetings to name but a few.
We offer the following services for audio recordings:
Meeting Minutes
This is the option when you require a concise record or minutes of a meeting. Some examples of where this might be useful include minutes of management team meetings, partnership meetings, board meetings or trustee meetings etc. This enables an accurate, impartial third-party record of the main discussion points, decisions and actions. This, of course, removes any minuting bias.
Intelligent Verbatim
This option enables OutSec legal multi voice transcriptionists to take a common-sense approach enabling them to filtering out words not relevant to the subject matter, such as all “umms”, “ahhs”, laughter and pauses; as a result, an “intelligent" transcript is provided. This is the most commonly requested type of multi-voice transcript.
Edited Transcript
This is a full and accurate transcript that has been formalised. Often used by law lecturers or conference organisers it is edited for readability and clarity. In other words, a clear and easy-to-read transcript appropriate for B2B communications and publishing houses (particularly academic reports).
Verbatim Transcript
Meaning ‘word for word’, this includes every utterance, cough, pause, umms, ahhs, and unfinished sentences, as well as stutters and stammers. In other words, it is a 100% accurate record of what was said.
Transcript with Time-Coded Text
Time stamps in hours, minutes and seconds are inserted into a transcript at specific intervals. It works as a marker of where particular text can be found in digital audio or video recordings and is useful for surveillance recordings, educational or training audio or video recordings, where you may need someone to listen or view a recording whilst reading text from a transcript.
Unlike other outsourced transcription companies, OutSec's Legal's specialised Legal transcriptionist team know exactly how legal documents should be laid out. This is because we only employ legal secretaries who have had a minimum of 10 years of experience or have CILEX or Legal Secretarial qualifications. This means we know which rule a Solicitor's letter to an incarcerated prisoner should be sent under, know how a Will should be set out and know that Court documents in civil cases have to follow practice direction 5A of the Civil Procedure Rules, Practice Direction 5A.
We also have access to a DX Directory for those legal practices who are on the DX system.
Our legal transcriptionists transcribe a vast range of legal documents. These include, for example: correspondence (letters and emails), telephone attendance notes, file notes, attendance notes, witness statements, affidavits, statutory declarations, leases, notices, articles of association, memorandum of association, contracts and agreements, instructions to Counsel, briefs to Counsel, HM Land Registry documents and forms, Court documents and forms, to name a few.
Yes we do. OutSec Legal have access to legal and court forms from:
HM Courts and Tribunal Service
We tend to access these online and we do this to ensure that all legal forms used by us are current and up to date; this is to reduce any issues on submission. This reduces time and costs for your law firm, as forms do not need to be retyped and resubmitted.
Our expert legal transcriptionist team are able to type up and transcribe these legal forms in either Word or PDF format, dependent on what has been provided by UK Gov. This means there are no additional costs to your firm in terms of software, meaning that costs for you are further reduced. However, if your firm uses Laserforms as part of your case management system and we are working on your files using it, then of course, we will use what has been provided to us to use.
There are three key benefits to getting your podcast transcribed, these include:
Accessibility
Having your podcast professionally transcribed means it widens its accessibility to others who do not normally listen to podcasts. After all, not everyone has time to listen to podcasts or is fond of that genre. So having a transcript allows different pathways for you to grow your audience. It also enables you to create new or different content to support the podcast on social media.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO):
So having a written version is great for those who are deaf or hard of hearing as it gives them a different way to access your content, whilst allowing your content to be more accessible to a larger audience base.
Search Engine Optimisation
Obtaining a professional podcast transcription enables search engines like Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, and others to crawl through the text, which makes the content of your podcasts searchable online. It is good for your content and also for your website!
Reutilisation of Content
This enables content to be reused in different ways and to be repurposed on social media or for email marketing.
Yes, we can do these from an audio or video recording of a meeting after the event. OutSec Legal also offer a live minuting service where one of OutSec Legal's minute takers can attend your remote online meeting and take minutes for you directly.
We offer the following services for video recordings:
Meeting Minutes
This is the option when you require a concise record of a meeting like team meetings, partnership meetings, trustee meetings, board meetings etc. Having a third party minute meetings enables an accurate, impartial record of the main discussion points, decisions and actions which can remove any minuting bias.
Intelligent Verbatim
This option enables our transcriptionists to take a common-sense approach by filtering out words not relevant to the subject matter, as well as all the “umms”, “ahhs”, laughter and pauses. As a result, an “intelligent “ transcript is provided.
Edited Transcript
This is a full and accurate transcript that has been formalised. This is often used by law lecturers or legal conference organisers. The text is edited for readability and clarity.
Verbatim Transcript
A ‘word for word’ transcription that includes every utterance, cough, pause, umms, ahhs, unfinished sentences, as well as stutters and stammers. In other words, it is a 100% accurate record of what was said by everyone on that recording.
Transcript with Time-Coded Text
Time stamping (or time coding) is inserting the time in hours, minutes and seconds into a transcript at specific intervals. It works as a marker of where text can be found in digital audio or video recordings. This can be useful for surveillance recordings, educational or training audio or video recordings, where you may need someone to listen or view a recording whilst reading text from a transcript, for example. Time coding can also be a precursor for subtitling especially if you are thinking of having the subtitles translated, which might be useful for online training materials.
Closed Captions (Closed Captioning)
Closed captioning helps people with hearing problems understand video content. Closed captions are intended for times when the entire audio component cannot be heard by the viewer.
Subtitling
The purpose is to aid those who have trouble with accents when viewing video content or for those who do not understand the audio language and when text acts like an aid.
Yes. You will need to record the meeting in Zoom.
In order to record a meeting in Zoom you need to be a host. If you are not a host, you will need to speak with the host and ask them to record the meeting and send you a copy. For details on how to record a Zoom meeting please see this useful video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYzPS28rg7E.
OutSec Legal also offer a live minuting service, so one of OutSec Legal's minute takers can attend your remote online meeting and take minutes for you directly.
Yes. You will need to record the meeting in Microsoft Teams.
Start recording your meeting.
Click on the 3 dots at the top right corner and go to "More options" > "Start recording".
For more information, please see the useful information video below.
The recording will be saved in "Share Point".
Click on "More options" > "Stop recording" and your meeting recording will be processed and saved.
For details on how to record a Microsoft Teams meeting please see this useful video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hjfQ41LF0w
We also offer a live minuting service, so one of OutSec Legal's minute takers can attend your remote online meeting and take minutes for you directly.
Yes. You will need to record the meeting via Skype.
For more details on how to record a meeting go to the following web page here:https://www.skype.com/en/blogs/2018-09-call-recording/
OutSec Legal also offer a live minuting service, so one of OutSec Legal's minute takers can attend your remote online Skype meeting and take minutes for you directly.
Yes. You will need to record the meeting via Google Meet.
For more details on how to record a Google Meet meeting go to the following web page here: https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9308681?hl=en
OutSec Legal also offer a live minuting service, so one of OutSec Legal's minute takers can attend your remote online meeting and take minutes for you directly.
Yes. You will need to record the meeting in Cisco Webex.
For more details on how to record a meeting go to the following web page here: https://help.webex.com/en-us/article/jfgavq/Webex-|-Record-a-meeting-on-your-computer
OutSec Legal also offer a live minuting service, so one of OutSec Legal's minute takers can attend your remote online Cisco Webex meeting and take minutes for you directly.
Yes. You will need to record the meeting in GoToMeeting?
For more details on how to record a meeting go to the following web page here: https://www.goto.com/meeting/features/online-meeting-recording
OutSec Legal also offer a live minuting service, so one of OutSec Legal's minute takers can attend your remote online GoTo Meeting conference and take minutes for you directly.
Yes. You will need to record the meeting in Google Workspace.
For more details on how to record a meeting go to the following web page here: https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9846751?hl=en
OutSec Legal also offer a live minuting service, so one of OutSec Legal's minute takers can attend your remote online Google Workspace meeting and take minutes for you directly.
Yes. You will need to record the meeting in Zoho Meeting?
For more details on how to record a meeting go to the following web page here: https://www.zoho.com/meeting/record-meeting.html
OutSec Legal also offer a live minuting service, so one of OutSec Legal's minute takers can attend your remote online Zoho meeting and take minutes for you directly.
Yes. You will need to record the meeting in Intermedia AnyMeeting.
For more details on how to record a meeting go to the following web page here:
OutSec Legal also offer a live minuting service, so one of OutSec Legal's minute takers can attend your remote online Intermedia AnyMeeting conference and take minutes for you directly.
Yes. You will need to record the meeting in Ring Central?
For more details on how to record a meeting go to the following web page here:
https://www.ringcentral.com/gb/en/blog/conference-call-recording/
OutSec Legal also offer a live minuting service, so one of OutSec Legal's minute takers can attend your remote online Ring Central meeting and take minutes for you directly.
Yes. We can transcribe streamed videos on YouTube and produce a transcript from that. We can also produce time-coded text, closed captions or subtitling as well.
Yes. We can transcribe streamed videos on Vimeo and produce a transcript from that. We can also produce closed captions, subtitling or time coded text as well.
Often overlooked, selecting the best recording equipment is of vital importance if you are recording multi voice audio transcription.
Poor audio quality can be a major persecutor to transcript production, because of this, OutSec Legal offers a free Consultancy Service to all their clients who use their multi voice service.
Working with our partner DMCL, we are able to advise on the most appropriate equipment on a case-by-case basis.
Additionally, the OutSec Speak app is often used to record one-to-one meetings.
The OutSec Speak app converts your smartphone or tablet into a digital dictation recorder with all the functionality of a digital recorder. The app also allows dictation to be sent securely to OutSec’s secure servers for transcription. The OutSec Speak app is fully GDPR compliant meaning any legal practice can use the app with confidence.
It also enables customers to have access to digital dictation software without any outlay to access OutSec Legal's transcription service.
As an example, a digital dictation recorder can cost from around £300 to £400 per recorder. A kit to then transcribe the documents can cost £160 upwards per kit. Therefore, the OutSec Speak app means there is no initial outlay for businesses that wish to outsource their transcription needs.
The OutSec SpeakApp has all the functionality of a digital dictation recorder (with some additional features).
The app can even be run on a Mac (with an M1 chip or higher). It is simple to use and free to OutSec Legal clients.
So, why not use our legal transcription app to access your transcriptions on the go?
Yes. We can do these from an audio or video recording of a meeting after the event. OutSec Legal also offer a live minuting service, so one of OutSec Legal's minute takers can attend your remote online meeting and take minutes for you directly.
Yes. If your company wishes to use our services but wishes to brand the app with your company´s logo to encourage usage and to ensure the app and our service becomes an integral part of your brand´s identity, we are always open to discussions on this point.
Yes. OutSec Legal is UK based company. We are part of the OutSec group of companies. Our registered office is 30 Market Place, Swaffham, PE37 7QH. However, we closed our physical office, as we realised that we could work from home without the need for an office before the pandemic. Our team are linked via our FileManager system and the use of workspaces and communicate via Skype and Microsoft Teams. Therefore everyone from OutSec works from home. OutSec was originally called Outsourced Secretarial Services and changed its name to a shortened version "OutSec" in 2004.
OutSec Legal is part of The OutSec Group.
Our registered office is located at: 111 St George's Square, London, SW1V 3QP
We are registered in England under company number: 13750093.
Our VAT Registration No is: 420145547.
Our VAT registration number is: 787 531685.
Our company is registered in England under number: 09071874, OutSec Legal is part of the OutSec Group of companies.
An automatically generated email notification is generated as soon as your legal digital dictation arrives on the OutSec FileManager system.
An automatically generated email notification is generated as soon as your legal transcription files have been completed. This email will notify you that your legal documents and legal correspondence are ready for collection. You can download your completed legal documents from your secure password-protected area on the FileManager system or within your own case management system.
Notifications can be sent to different email addresses at the same time, for example, a work email address or to a member of your administrative staff.
All accounts are subject to company and other financial checks. However, normally accounts are opened quickly during our hours of business between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.
Yes. The beauty of outsourcing your legal transcription is that it is a facility that you use when needed. However, the more you use OutSec, the better your dedicated lead and back-up legal transcriptionists will become at understanding your requirements.
There are three key benefits to getting your webinars, webcasts or online training resources transcribed. These include:
Accessibility
Having your webinar, webcast or online training content professionally transcribed means it widens its accessibility to others.
According to the World Health Organisation, more than 1.5 billion worldwide suffer from some form of hearing loss. So having a written version is great for those who are deaf or hard of hearing as it gives them a different way to access your webinar training content either before or after the event. Having a webcast or online training content transcribed is also a precursor for having closed captioning, translation and subtitling added to your content to reach a wider audience.
Search Engine Optimisation
Obtaining a professional transcription enables search engines like Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, and others to crawl through the text, which then makes your content searchable.
Reutilisation of Content
By having transcripts of your video content, it enables your business to repurpose the webcast, webinar or online training content into additional content for your website or social media channels. By repurposing your content, you can generate additional content thereby increasing your audience reach, whilst strengthening your website’s or content’s SEO further. These transcripts can be used for creating infographics, blogs as well as social media posts.
OutSec Legal's origins date back to 2002 when Vanessa French started the then-known company, Outsourced Secretarial Services. Vanessa French has been a finalist in both the British Female Inventor and Innovators of the Year Awards 2006, as well as the European Women of Achievement Awards in the same year. She is also featured in Michelle Rosenberg's book entitled "Inspiring Women" alongside Annabell Karmel, Jane Packer & Chrissie Rucker amongst others. Her experience in the industry has ensured that OutSec and its group of companies have been known for top-quality transcription along with our client-dedicated OutSec Speak App and tailored FileManager system, which is unique in the industry.
All our transcriptionists are bound by a Confidentiality Agreement. Sensitive work is processed on non-networked PCs by prior arrangement.
OutSec Legal complies with the Data Protection Act and GDPR. OutSec is registered with the Information Commissioner's Office.
Both original and completed files are automatically deleted from the FileManager system 40 days after work completion. The FileManager system is protected by Thawte. Thawte is trusted by millions of people worldwide. An SSL certificate is issued and shown on the login page. Rigorous authentication methods and a global infrastructure to support real-time certificate look-ups ensure that you are safe when logging in to OutSec FileManager.
OutSec is Cyber Essentials Certified.