Transcription for Law Firms and Legal Teams
Client conversations carry professional secrecy obligations that do not travel well to someone else’s cloud. Scriber runs on your own server, so recordings, transcripts, and minutes never leave the firm. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is shared with a third-party processor.
The Confidentiality Problem
Every client meeting, hearing-adjacent proceeding, and dictation you record is protected by your duty of confidentiality. Sending that audio to a transcription service in someone else's cloud means it passes through infrastructure you do not control, processed by a party who is not bound by your professional secrecy obligations the way you are.
This is not a technical detail. For a firm, where a conversation is processed matters as much as what is said in it. A transcription tool built for general business use rarely asks the question a law firm has to ask first.
Scriber Inside the Firm
Scriber is installed on the firm's own server, inside your existing infrastructure. Recordings, transcripts, and the minutes generated from them stay on that server; they are never uploaded to an external service, and Determin never holds a copy. The installation works offline, including on an air-gapped network, so no internet connection is required for recording, transcription, or export.
Retention and deletion are set by the firm, on its own storage, which matters for mandate files with defined retention periods. A finished matter's recordings can be kept exactly as long as your file management requires, and no longer.
From Recording to Quotable Record
Client meetings are recorded directly in the browser. Dictations from a dictation device arrive through a watched folder or a network share, without anyone uploading a file by hand. Scriber transcribes each recording with speaker separation, so every contribution in the transcript is attributed to the person who made it and can be quoted with confidence.
An automatic summary and a finished set of minutes are generated alongside the transcript, and every recording is added to a single searchable library, so you can find the meeting first and then the sentence.
Client meetings
Recorded in the browser, transcribed with speaker attribution.
Dictation
Arrives via watched folder or network share; the minutes matter more than speaker separation here.
Internal case conferences
A speaker-separated transcript of who said what during case strategy discussions.
Negotiations
A quotable record of positions and outcomes, kept inside the firm.
Into Your File
Transcripts and minutes export as PDF, Word, plain text, Markdown, or JSON, matching whatever format your file management already expects. Automatic results are delivered to the folder or network share you choose, so a finished transcript can land exactly where your case file lives without an extra step.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why do law firms use on-premise transcription instead of a cloud service?
A cloud transcription service processes client conversations on infrastructure the firm does not control, outside its own security perimeter. On-premise transcription runs on the firm's own server, so recordings, transcripts, and minutes never leave the building, and no external party ever holds a copy of a client conversation.
Can Scriber transcribe dictations?
Yes. Recordings from a dictation device reach Scriber through a watched folder or a network share, without anyone uploading a file by hand. Speaker separation matters less for a single-speaker dictation; what matters is a clean transcript and finished minutes ready to file.
Are speakers attributed in the transcript?
Yes. Scriber separates speakers automatically, so each contribution in the transcript is attributed to the person who made it. That makes a client meeting, a case conference, or a negotiation quotable: you can point to exactly who said what.
Where do the finished documents end up?
Transcripts and minutes export as PDF, Word, plain text, Markdown, or JSON. Automatic results are delivered to the folder or network share you choose, and every recording is added to a searchable library, so you can find the meeting and the exact passage again later.
Keep Client Conversations Inside the Firm
Talk to us about an on-premise installation for your firm's meetings and dictations.