Product No:  HME081

The company hires typists and word processors throughout the United States and Canada to work as independent contractors from their own homes via the Internet. The company offers to its client base a professional product turned around in a fraction of the time of an in house staff.  We contract with independent legal transcriptionists to complete this work from their home using our software as a "key" to access the available work.

The company typists are qualified legal transcriptionists who contract with us to receive high quality legal transcription work to complete from their own home, on their own schedule. You can apply for the work wholly on-line, and upon approval of your application and the completion of the required testing, you will be given a software which acts as a "key", allowing you to sign into our system and pick up work from our clients, then to upload your finished transcriptions to our computer when completed which will return them to the client.

Do I have to Work Full Time?

The company allows you to decide the total hours you would like to work, as well as your schedule week to week. Once you are under contract, you will be given access to an on-line schedule to work from, specifying the hours you would like to work for a calendar month.

What is the compensation for a typist and how is payment delivered?

The company typists are paid by the words transcribed on work done. Good typists who meet our criteria can generally earn $12-$15 per hour, or more. There are no caps on the amount you can earn, so the faster and more efficiently you can complete the work, the more you can make. Payment is made via check twice a month, shortly after the 1st and the 15th.

How long does it take to apply?

Once you have submitted all of the necessary, Human Resources will take a few days to review your information. Once they have approved your application, they will contact you and ask you to order a foot pedal. When you receive your pedal (which typically takes about a week to be delivered), you will e-mail the office and we will provide you written materials and instructions on how to begin testing.

This testing consists of several short testing jobs, designed to demonstrate your typing skills and your knowledge of legal transcription, and these can be completed at your own pace. These jobs will be reviewed by our staff upon completion to assure that your programs are properly in place and that the quality of your work is satisfactory. All in all, the application process and testing can be completed in 2 weeks or less if you actively work at completing the necessary material.

Necessary Qualifications

To work for the company you must:

Have demonstrated the ability to type at least 80 wpm, on a typing test of at least 5 minutes duration

Have at least 24 months of increasingly responsible legal work in a law firm or other related office, not more than five years previous to the date of application

Have specific experience in and a good working knowledge of the set up of legal pleadings, agreements, court headings, interrogatories, deposition summaries, formal correspondence, etc

Have a good working knowledge of the proper format of legal citations.

Be committed to maintain and meet work schedules agreed to, and consistently produce quality product required by the company

Start-up Fees:  None 

Equipment and Software Required

To work for the company, you will need to have the following versions of the listed hardware, software and other items installed in your computer, and be thoroughly familiar with the operation of them:

PC personal computer with a Pentium 400 (or greater) processor, with at least 256MB RAM

Sound Blaster or compatible sound card, and some type of earphones to listen to the dictation.

The highest speed Internet hookup in your area - minimum of 56k baud. DSL is available in most areas now and you should acquire and use this if at all possible - it will greatly enhance your speed and your ability to earn more. AOL internet service is NOT compatible with our system and cannot be used.  If you are using AOL as an internet service provider, you will need to find a new carrier.

Windows 98, Millennium Edition (ME)2000, or XP operating system.

Kodak Imaging Software to access FAXes. Generally, some type of Imaging software comes included with all versions of Windows.

Microsoft Word 2000

Microsoft Internet Explorer (NOT Netscape)

An inkjet or laser printer, properly set and cabled to work with your computer.

Required foot pedals to operate the playback of dictated material. (In order to start and stop the dictation for transcription.

A thorough working knowledge of the Internet, including the use of e-mail, web browsing, etc.

Telephone service to your house that you can use at the same time you are accessing your Internet connection, with either an answering machine or Voice Mail.

If you have a fairly recent computer, and it does not have a 15 PIN parallel port, you are going to have to order a relative inexpensive adapter cable that will allow you to plug your pedal into a USB port.

What costs are involved for equipment?

In addition to the equipment above, the foot pedal is $69.95.  If you do not have a 15 PIN parallel game port, the converter to a USB port is $16.99.