How long is the summary?

It follows the testimony rather than a target length. A tightly focused 150-page deposition might produce eight pages; a rambling 400-page one produces more, because compressing it further would lose the admissions that make it useful.

Can you match our firm's summary template?

Yes. Send the template or a summary you liked, and we hold the format for every transcript afterwards so you stop re-explaining it.

Do you summarise hearings and arbitrations too?

Yes, on the same basis and at the same price, provided there is a transcript. Audio-only recordings are quoted separately because transcription is a different job.

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Deposition and hearing transcript summaries

A 250-page deposition takes a competent associate most of a day to summarise properly, which is why transcripts pile up unread on active discovery calendars. We return a topic-headed summary with page-line citations throughout, plus the admissions, exhibits and internal inconsistencies pulled into separate indexes.

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Published price: $150–400 / transcript
Turnaround: 48 hours
Without us: $500–1,200 / transcript

Fully pipelined

How we actually produce this

Our pipeline produces the deliverable end to end. A qualified lawyer samples the output and signs it before it leaves us.

The pipeline is ours. It was built for legal work rather than adapted from a general product, which is why the price for this service is a published number instead of an hourly estimate.

Why this work leaves a firm: A 250-page deposition takes a competent associate four to six hours to summarise properly. Firms with active discovery calendars accumulate these faster than anyone can process them, and they end up summarised badly or not at all.
What our pipeline does: We parse the page-line structure, segment the testimony by topic shift rather than by arbitrary page blocks, summarise each segment with page-line citations, and extract admissions, exhibit references, objections, and inconsistencies into separate indexes.
Where a lawyer steps in: Sample verification against the transcript before delivery.
What it changes: A backlog of thirty transcripts clears in a week. Trial preparation starts from an indexed record rather than a stack of unread PDFs.

What you receive

A topic-headed summary with page-line citations throughout, plus admissions, exhibit and inconsistency indexes.

Priced per transcript rather than per page, with the range set by length and by how clean the reporter's output is. Multi-day depositions of the same witness are quoted as one transcript where the volume is continuous.

A topic-headed summary that follows the testimony's own subject shifts rather than arbitrary page blocks
A page-line citation on every proposition, so any line can be taken straight into a brief or a motion
An admissions index listing the testimony worth quoting, with the citation for each
An exhibit index mapping every exhibit to the pages where it was discussed and what was said about it
An inconsistency list flagging where the witness contradicts themselves within the transcript
An objections log where the transcript carries them, so preserved disputes are visible at a glance

What it costs, and what it replaces

Both figures are published ranges for the same unit of work. Ours is fixed before we start; if our process gets faster, that is our gain and your price does not move.

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Price per transcript · same work, both sides

Adnah Legal: $150–400 / transcript
Typical cost without us: $500–1,200 / transcript

Roughly 68% lower at the midpoint of each published range.

How the work runs

Parse and segment

The pipeline reads the page-line structure and segments the testimony by topic shift rather than by fixed page count, so a summary section corresponds to a subject rather than to pages 40 to 60.

Summarise with citations bound

Each segment is summarised with the page-line reference bound to the proposition as it is written, not added afterwards. Nothing enters the summary without a citation attached.

Extract the indexes

Admissions, exhibit references, objections and internal inconsistencies are extracted into separate indexes in the same pass, which is the part that takes an associate a second read-through.

Lawyer verification and delivery

A qualified lawyer samples the summary against the transcript, checking that citations land where they claim to and that nothing material has been compressed away, then signs and delivers.

What we need from you

The transcript, in any common format - certified PDF, ASCII, or a court reporter's native export
The exhibits, where you want them cross-indexed against the testimony
A short note on the issues that matter, so significance tagging tracks your theory rather than ours
Your house summary format, if you have one you want matched

What we check before delivery

Citations are verified against the transcript on a sample of every summary, not asserted
Admissions are checked back to the exact page-line before they reach the index
Testimony marked confidential or subject to a protective order is handled under the order's terms
Where the transcript itself is unclear or garbled, we flag it rather than guessing at meaning

When firms send us this

A discovery calendar that is generating transcripts faster than anyone can read them

Trial preparation that needs an indexed record rather than a stack of unread PDFs

Summary judgment briefing where the admissions have to be found and cited quickly

Catching up a backlog after a burst of depositions in a short window

Questions about deposition and hearing transcript summaries

How long is the summary?
It follows the testimony rather than a target length. A tightly focused 150-page deposition might produce eight pages; a rambling 400-page one produces more, because compressing it further would lose the admissions that make it useful.
Can you match our firm's summary template?
Yes. Send the template or a summary you liked, and we hold the format for every transcript afterwards so you stop re-explaining it.
Do you summarise hearings and arbitrations too?
Yes, on the same basis and at the same price, provided there is a transcript. Audio-only recordings are quoted separately because transcription is a different job.

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Deposition and hearing transcript summaries at $150–400 per transcript, 48 hours. No minimum, no scoping call, no onboarding cycle.

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