Davao Med ICT school expands offering for legal transcriptionists/transcribers

A Davao-based Medical Transcription School after noting high demand for legal transcriptionists/transcribers has expanded its offering for Legal Transcription Program of eight weeks course.

Wit Holganza, president of MTC Academy said the demand for qualified individuals task of writing accurate and grammatically correct legal records has been growing.

She said these legal transcribers take some of the workload from lawyers and paralegals needing to keep accurate records but do not have the time to construct them.

She said this profession is rising in importance as the need for accurate documentation and organized legal system increases. Data capture and transcriptions in the legal world is critical as it affects the speed by which justice is served.

"Just like medical and business transcriptions, legal transcription uses the latest technology to convert legal dictations such as oral arguments, trial cases, court hearings and proceedings and legal interviews from voice to text thus creating official documents," she said.

The Legal Transcription program at MTC Academy is an eight (8) week program with a pre-requisite course of 1- 4 weeks depending on the student-applicants' entry-level skill set. The program covers the essentials of legal terminology, types of legal documentation, professional ethics in legal transcription and common rules in legal documentation.

Using the revolving curriculum for most of its programs allowing classes to start every month, MTC Academy has also restructured its program costs thus enhancing the value for money for all of its courses with low down payment and easy monthly installments extended to all qualified applicants.

She said the MTC Academy is supplying more than 50% of Davao City's manpower requirement to its corporate partners even as it provides free job placement assistance for its transcription graduates to companies here in Davao and as far as Manila and Cebu.