Deposition Transcription for Law Firms: How AI Cuts Turnaround from Days to Hours
A five-hour deposition produces roughly 75,000 words of testimony. At traditional court reporting rates, transcribing that single session can cost $1,500 to $4,000 and take three to five business days for delivery. For firms managing dozens of active cases with depositions, witness interviews, and recorded client meetings running concurrently, those costs and delays compound into a material drag on case preparation.
AI-powered transcription is changing the economics. Firms using modern transcription platforms receive accurate, speaker-identified drafts within hours of upload, at a fraction of the per-page cost of traditional court reporting. And with court-formatted export capabilities, those transcripts arrive ready for filing, not in a format that requires manual reformatting.