For All Your Legal Transcription Needs

I am Paul Young of Young Legal Support Services, LLC (“YLSS”). We are located within walking distance of the Durham County Courthouse in downtown Durham, North Carolina, and are the perfect destination for all your legal transcription needs. My 30 years legal experience and expertise, combined with superior English spelling, grammar and punctuation skills, allow me to offer you reliable, world class transcription quality at competitive rates. I am committed to gaining your trust, as your business is my lifeline.

Sending electronic legal dictation files into cyberspace involves significant trust on your part, and I understand that. I value your trust, and therefore take the appropriate steps to ensure the security and confidentiality of the data you entrust to me.

Types of Legal Transcription Services I Provide

I am a solo provider of legal transcription services, so the dangers inherent in having your documents go through multiple hands in the legal transcription process is non-existent when you utilize my services. Furthermore, I am able to give you the personalized attention and time you need in order to make you comfortable that your legal transcription job is going to be done, done right, done on time, and done with the absolute highest quality. I believe in the adage “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Thus, I do your legal transcription work as though it were my own, because in a very real sense, it is; if you’re not happy, I’m not working.

The types of legal transcription services I provide are as follows:

• Pleadings
• Contracts
• Correspondence / Letters
• Memoranda
• Conferences
• Depositions
• Arbitration Hearings
• Court Proceedings
• PACE Interviews
• IUC Transcription
• Witness Statements
• Wills
• Claims
• Legal Advice
• Adjudication Panel Hearings
• Interrogations
• Meeting Minutes
• Public Hearings

Skills/Experience

Outlined below is a non-comprehensive list of my skills and experience:

• 30 years legal experience as a legal secretary/paralegal.
• 100+ wpm typing speed.
• Excellent dictation transcription skills.
• Excellent editing/proofreading skills.
• Excellent spelling and grammar (former school spelling bee champion).
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word through 2007, DeltaView, Windows.
• Working knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Adobe Professional, Nuance pdf, etc.
• Document management software (iManage, DocsOpen, Workshare Professional).
• Knowledge of other types of law firm applications (time entry, billing, filing, document management, etc.).
• Experience in most areas of law, the result of having worked in many legal genres for many firms as an independent contractor.
• Passionate about my work product.
• Understanding of the importance of confidentiality.

Transcription Formats

I use Express Scribe Professional and FTR Player software and can transcribe the following digital audio/video file formats:

Audio File Formats

AAC
DSS
MSV (Sony recorder)
ACT
DVF (Sony recorder)
QCP
AIFC (Compressed AIFF)
DVS (Royal recorder)
RA / RM (RealAudio)
AIFF
FLAC
SHN
AMR
OGG
SPX
APE
M4A
VOC
AU
MP2
VOX
CAF (Apple Core Audio Format)
MP3
WAV (Including ADPCM, aLaw, GSM 6.10, PCM, and uLaw codecs)
DCT (Express Dictate, MSRS, etc.)
MPC
WMA
DSP TrueSpeech

Video File Formats

3G2
DV
MOV
3GP
FLV
MP4
ASF
M4V
MPEG
AVI
MKV
WMV
DivX

The Advantages of Using Our Services

The primary advantages you gain when using our services are the combination of expertise, experience and familiarity. Once you get to know me and my work product, you will know what you are getting every time you utilize my services, as opposed to hiring a company where the results may be uneven. In addition, because I have been doing this for a long time and have an understanding of the ins and outs of adapting to different legal environments (including across state lines), I am able to move into various legal environments and get up and running in a relatively seamless manner, without a lot of lag time.

Among the many benefits of working with a solo provider of legal transcription services is continuity. Because you are able to develop a working relationship with me, I am able to learn the subtleties and nuances of your dictation style, thus ensuring more accuracy the more experience you gain with me. I have in the past been able to get to 100% accuracy by working with a person over a period of time, simply because of consistent exposure to that person’s dictation style.