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LEGAL TRANSCRIPTION COURSE OUTLINE
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This is a professional-level program leading to a Legal Transcriptionist Career Diploma.
You get everything you need to know including easy-to-understand lessons, supplements and special learning aids. You progress step-by-step from the basics of transcription into more advanced subjects like keeping children's records, observing regulations, making your business plan and much, much more.
Click on the instruction links below for complete course content.
Instruction Pack 1
Instruction Pack 2
Instruction Pack 3
Instruction Pack 4
Instruction Pack 5
Legal Transcription Instruction Pack I Back to Top
Welcome to Your Exciting New Career as a Legal Transcriptionist
This lesson introduces you to the legal transcriptionist profession. You will learn about the history of legal transcription and the many career opportunities that await you.
Your Role as a Legal Transcriptionist
In this lesson, you are provided an overview of court personnel, including the roles of the court reporter and legal transcriptionist.
Criminal Law 1: Events Leading to a Trial
The first Criminal Law lesson will illustrate the life cycle of a crime. You will recognize constitutional rights and differentiate between civil action and criminal prosecution. Additionally, you'll learn the basics of stenotype, the phonetic language of the court reporter. Stenotype enables a court reporter to keep up with testimony even when someone is speaking over 200 words per minute!
Criminal Law 2: Drama in the Courtroom
Part 2 of the Criminal Law lessons explains the trial-by-jury process and illustrates the diagram of a trial. You'll continue your work on stenotype practice by pronouncing and spelling legal terms.
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Civil Law 1: Preparing a Lawsuit
In this lesson, you will learn to pronounce and spell terms associated with civil lawsuits, from the filing of the complaint through the other civil procedures which lead up to a settlement or trial.
Civil Law 2: The Civil Trial and Legal Specialties
You will learn about civil trials. You'll also learn terms associated with different legal specialties, including personal injury, family law, administrative law and litigation. Also learn about business organizations, wills and estates, real estate, contracts, backruptcy, and patents and trademarks.
How and Where to Look Up Information You Don't Know
In this lesson, you will learn research skills and techniques that will help you produce accurate and thorough transcripts for your court reporters. You'll learn about reference materials and resources for spelling and verifying words that you'll ome across as a legal transcriptionist.
Medical Word Building
This lesson introduces the simple word-building system you'll use to master medical terminology. You will learn how medical terms are built from word parts, which are called root words, prefixes and suffixes. You'll learn that the most complex medical terms can be understood by dividing the word into parts. You'll also learn how to build a medical term.
How the Body Is Organized
From cells to tissues to organs to systems, you'll learn how the body is organized to do its work. You'll learn terms often used by doctors in testimony to describe the location of body parts.
Also included in Pack II:
• Quick-Learn Kit:
• Quick-Learn Pocket Folder
• Quick-Learn Tutor
• Quick-Learn Flashcards
• Quiz Answer Sheets and Envelopes
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Organ Systems from Skin to Bones
You'll learn specialized terms used in connection with the integumentary system (the skin), the neurological system, the cardiovascular system, the musculoskeletal system and the immune system.
Organ Systems from Respiratory to Reproductive
You'll learn specialized terms used in connection with the respiratory system, the gastrointestinal system, the genitourinary system, the reproductive system and the endocrine system.
Punctuation and Style from Clauses to Pauses
The punctuation for legal transcripts is very specific and sometimes different from the rules for punctuating other texts. Special emphasis will be placed on understanding and using punctuation correctly for legal transcripts. This lesson focuses on the uses of periods, commas, question marks, semicolons, colons and dashes.
Punctuation and Style from Quotes to Capitals
You'll learn about quotation marks, apostrophes, hyphens and parentheses, as well as proper style for using abbreviations, numbers and capitalization and for forming paragraphs.
Phonetics-The Way Words Sound
Court reporters write words according to how they sound, not according to how they are spelled. You'll learn all about this system of phonetics and learn how to identify the sounds that words make.
Beginning Stenotype
This lesson will introduce you to the stenograph keyboard. You will begin reading single words in stenotype.
Also included in Pack III:
• Quick-Learn Flashcards
• Quick-Learn Guide for Punctuation
• Quick-Look Legal and Medical Glossary
• Stenotype Keyboard Reference Card and Letter Guide
• Quiz Answer Sheets and Envelopes
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Stenotype: Punctuation, qu-, ch-, d-, le-, -ing, -ity
In this lesson, you will learn how to read basic stenotype punctuation and the combination letters for the sounds and spellings listed above. You will be introduced to the system of abbreviations court reports use when recording testimony and will begin reading sentenes written in stenotype.
Stenotype: -n, -bility, -ng, -nj, -nk, -nt, -m, -ment, -k, Omitting Final -t, Asterisks
You will learn how to read the combination letters for the above sounds. You will also learn briefs and phrases that use these letters and will have further practice in reading stenotype sentences.
Stenotype: f-, n-, l-, b-, m-, g-, -j/Soft -g
The combination letters for six new initial sounds and one new ending sound will be covered in this lesson. You will also learn briefs and phrases that use these letters.
Stenotype: j-/Soft g-, v-, y-, Middle Consonant y, -ch, Arbitrary Signs, -sh, -th, com-
You will learn how to read the combination letters for eight new sounds. You will learn briefs and phrases that use these letters. You will also learn how a reporter indicates questions and answers during the testimony.
Stenotype: x-, -x, Speakers Arbitrary Signs, Alphabet, Punctuation, Special Prefixes and Suffixes
This lesson covers the combination letters for the initial and final sound x. You will learn to read certain prefixes and suffixes that are abbreviated in legal notes. You'll also learn how speakers' names are handled in legal notes, as well as how the steno alphabet is stroked out.
Stenotype: Times, Dates, Numbers and Conflict Words
You'll learn how numbers, dates and time references are indicated in legal notes. You'll also learn about the conflict words words of legal transcription, homophones, or words that sound the same.
Also included in Pack IV...
• Quick-Learn Flashcards
• Equipment Guide
• Quiz Answer Sheets and Envelopes
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Reading Stenotype: Legal and Medical Terms
This lesson gives you practical experience reading legal and medical terms that have been written in stenotype.
Preparing a Legal Transcript
There are many special terms associated with the parts of a legal transcript. You will learn these terms and how each part in a legal transcript is related to the other parts. You will practice formatting the special pages that are found at the beginning and the end of legal transcripts.
Preparing the Body of the Transcript
All the guidelines involved in preparing legal transcripts will be presented. You will learn how to format the transcript and how to handle witness setups, examinations and interruptions in the testimony.
Real-Life Transcription I
Bringing together all the skills you have gained throughout the course, you will transcribe two depositions from actual court reporters' notes. Included will be some simple medical testimony.
Real-Life Transcription II
You'll continue developing your skills by transcribing two more depositions, including a deposition in which the testimony was taken through an interpreter.
Real-Life Transcription III
The two transcripts you will complete in this lesson include practice in drug research, more complex medical testimony and handling exhibits.
Real-Life Transcription IV
You will further build confidence in your skills as you complete your training with two final depositions. These last transcripts will be of professional quality and will demonstrate to court reporters your proficiency as a legal transcriptionist.
Also included in Pack V...
• Format Template
• CAT Supplement
• Briefs and Phrases Reference Finder
• Desk Reference for Legal Transcriptionists
• Legal Transcriptionist Jobs Finder
• Quiz Answer Sheets and Envelopes
• Transcript Cover Sheets and Envelopes
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