Common questions about Mehaffey Transcription: pricing, turnaround, court-readiness, and how we keep your discovery private. Based in Abilene, Texas; serving attorneys and law firms nationwide.
Mehaffey Transcription charges by the spoken-word count. The standard transcript rate comes from the current rate sheet, and the quote shows the counted words before payment. Bulk backlogs receive a custom quote after the file set and turnaround are reviewed.
Yes. Mehaffey Transcription handles legal discovery audio and video: bodycam, dashcam, 911 and jail calls, recorded interviews and interrogations, and case video for family, divorce, and personal injury matters. We work with attorneys and law firms in Abilene, Texas and across the country.
The quote counts spoken transcript words. Speaker labels, timestamps, and generated summaries are excluded. We confirm the count and amount with you before payment.
Transcripts are draft work products for attorney review. Check important passages against the recording before quoting or filing them, and ask about the file set when speaker labels or case terms need special handling.
Files are encrypted and access is limited to the order. Our workflow uses local processing and external AI services. Read the privacy policy for processing, access, and retention details before uploading discovery.
Send the bodycam file through the order page. We produce a timestamped Word transcript, give you the spoken-word count, and show the amount before payment. Attorneys use the transcript for discovery review and preparation.
For a Bulk Case Backlog, share a link from Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, ShareFile, WeTransfer, or your DA's discovery portal. We review the file set and turnaround needs, then send a custom quote before work begins.
Mehaffey Transcription accepts bodycam, dashcam, jail-call, interview, and general audio and video files used in criminal discovery. Transcripts are delivered as timestamped Microsoft Word documents. For bulk jobs, share a link from Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, ShareFile, or wherever the files live.
Mehaffey Transcription is a veteran-owned legal discovery transcription service in Abilene, Texas. We work with attorneys, paralegals, and law firms across criminal defense, family and divorce, and personal injury matters, turning bodycam, dashcam, 911 and jail calls, interviews, and case video into draft Word documents.
Standard transcripts are delivered as timestamped Word documents. A large or bulk job gets a schedule after we review the files. Contact Mehaffey Transcription at [email protected] for a custom quote.
Mehaffey Transcription is based at 2441 South 1st Street, Abilene, TX 79605, and serves criminal defense attorneys and law firms in Abilene, West Texas, and nationwide. It is a veteran-owned legal discovery transcription business. You can reach it at [email protected].
Mehaffey Transcription uses the spoken-word count for standard transcripts. The quote states the count and rate before payment. Bulk backlogs receive a custom quote. Files are encrypted and access is limited to the order. Our workflow uses local processing and external AI services. Read the privacy policy for processing, access, and retention details before uploading discovery.
Standard turnaround is 2 to 3 business days for a typical case. Any order can be rushed for $50: it moves to the front of the line and is delivered by the end of the next business day. The order form also has a court-date field, so even without a rush we can plan around your setting. Large bulk backlogs get a schedule once we see the files.
Yes. Mark your order court-appointed and we start without any payment up front. You get a print-ready quote from the current word-count rate to attach to your motion for investigative or expert funds, and once we deliver, that same page becomes an itemized invoice with the case caption, order cite, and a hashed file list, ready to drop into your voucher packet. The county pays us by check or ACH on its own schedule; waiting on that is our problem, not yours.
The night before a suppression hearing, when you want to ask the case a question instead of scrubbing four hours of video. Drop the folder into Claude, ChatGPT, or NotebookLM and ask: build a timeline; where does the officer's report differ from what he says on camera; draft cross questions on the search. The folder is your discovery and transcripts converted to plain text with an index, a one-file version of the whole case, and starter prompts, so the first useful answer comes back in minutes, on whatever AI tool your firm already pays for. It ships with a one-page advisory on which tools are safe for client-confidential material, because that part matters.
The day a production lands and you have twenty minutes before your next setting. The inventory version tells you what you actually got, what's missing, and which recording to watch first. The full analysis goes further: the facts cited to the record, the State's best arguments, your best arguments, and an honest weighing, in the shape you'd write a case evaluation yourself. Attorneys use them to triage new appointments, prep client meetings, and decide early whether a case is a motion fight or a plea negotiation. Every heading is one click in Word's navigation pane, and everything arrives as a draft for your review, never a filing. There's a full sample on our sample page.
When the DA's production includes a phone extraction that only opens in some reader program, jail calls in a format nothing plays, or surveillance video that demands a player from 2009, and your hearing is Thursday. Send it with your order and we return files that open on any computer: messages readable, calls playable, video watchable. We hash every source file at intake and never touch the originals, so what we hand back traces cleanly to what you gave us. And if you can't even tell what you've been given, send it anyway; identifying it is part of the job.
One $50 add-on on top of transcription gets you any or all of: an AI reference folder (your whole case converted to plain text any AI tool can read, like Claude, ChatGPT, or NotebookLM, with an index and starter prompts), a discovery summary (a straight inventory of what's in the production, or a narrative summary of the case, written as drafts for you to review), and file conversion (phone dumps from Cellebrite or GrayKey, jail calls, and DVR or proprietary-player video converted into files you can actually open; everything hashed at intake, originals never touched).