Duly Noted: Transcription Apps Can Save You Note-Taking Time

October 14, 2025 - Law Practice Management

With so many meetings now taking place online via web conferencing tools, your notetaking responsibilities may have just gotten a whole lot easier.

Yes, lots of attorneys take meeting notes – whether they’re talking with leads, clients, other attorneys or referral sources. It’s kind of a thing. Maybe it stems from law school outline-making . . . or, maybe it’s just ingrained into an attorney’s psyche. While note-taking is something that lawyers feel compelled to do, it’s not often easy. Maybe you can’t read your handwriting. Maybe it takes you even more time to consolidate what you’ve done after you’ve already taken a boatload of notes. Maybe you just never want to hold a pen again and are laser-focused on using automation tools to improve your law practice.

Whatever the reason you’d like to lighten your note-taking load, there are some nifty transcription apps that might be a fit for you. Some of those are built into the tools you may be using right now. Zoom, the most popular web conferencing tool, features a native transcription feature, which is now powered by (stop me if you’ve heard this before) AI. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet also include transcription features.

Of course, there are also standalone transcription tools that can generate meeting notes, which can be utilized as integrations of the major providers listed above, as well as other web conferencing services. On that front, check out Otter.AI, Fireflies.AI or Vowel.

If you’re looking for a new way of taking notes, you’ve now got some options with which to proceed.

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Incremental time savings for law firms, like AI-assisted note-taking, can have massive impacts over time. If you want to talk more about how to streamline your law practice, reach out to us today!

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