Transcript Summary Services                                can be profitable for your firm.                                                                                     First, take a look at the sample summaries.                                How many pages per hour can you or your paralegal                                          read and summarize in a similar format? Perhaps 20? Assume that you have 1,000 pages of transcripts (depositions, trial transcripts, discovery, etc.). That works out to a whopping 50 hours! Consider the actual cost of your in-house paralegal - don't forget to add benefits, sick days, vacation days, retirement plans, and taxes into your cost - you are probably paying more than $80 per hour. If your paralegal reads the transcripts, it will cost you $4,000. And, you have lost a week's work from that paralegal, who was probably already working at capacity. It is even worse when one of your Associates reads those depositions.   If that Associate bills at $125 per hour, the cost of the summaries jumps to $6,250. (Plus the cost of transcription if the notes are dictated or handwritten.) But, the worst case scenario occurs when you read those depositions. If you bill at $200 per hour, the cost of the summaries is $10,000. Transcript Summary Services will charge only $2,250 to read those 1,000 pages and distill the contents down to about 100 pages of indexed, relevant material.  This amounts to a minimum savings of $1,750   Furthermore, we will be there when you need us, and only when you need us.  No skimping on preparation because your staff is already busy on other tasks. And, no overhead associated with maintaining staff that may be underutilized at other times. Consider the real cost of doing without summaries. Reviewing transcripts through text searches alone can be time consuming, inaccurate, and costly. Given the quality and timeliness of our work product, out-sourcing your transcript summaries as a standard practice makes good sense.

Cost Benefits

Size of Transcript	Paralegal	Associate	Partner	TSS
1,000 pages	$4,000	$6,250	$10,000	$2,250

STARTING AT JUST $2.25 PER TRANSCRIPT PAGE