The legal profession has always been shaped by innovation — from typewriters to digital case management — but few technologies have had as immediate an impact as artificial intelligence in the courtroom. Today, modern court reporting solutions are combining AI with expert human oversight to deliver unprecedented accuracy and speed, and this technology is now expanding across Latin America through a strategic partnership.
Verbit’s legal team is excited to announce a new partnership with eSteno Media Services to bring Legal Capture™ — part of Verbit’s courtroom transcription suite — to courts and judicial systems across Central and South America. This collaboration represents a significant step forward in modernizing legal proceedings throughout the region, addressing the growing need for faster, more accurate legal documentation as caseloads continue to rise.
The Growing Need for Modern Legal Transcription in Latin American Courts
The demand for reliable legal transcription has grown exponentially as judicial systems across Latin America modernize their operations. Courts throughout the region face mounting pressure from increasing caseloads, the shift toward virtual and hybrid proceedings, and rising expectations from legal professionals who need immediate access to accurate, searchable records.
The landscape of legal transcription in Latin America is rapidly evolving as courts embrace digital transformation. Traditional methods — while still valuable — often struggle to keep pace with the volume and complexity of modern legal proceedings. High-volume arbitration centers need fast, accurate transcripts to keep proceedings moving without sacrificing precision. Judicial systems managing rising caseloads require technology that helps courts take on more volume while maintaining the accuracy and reliability that legal proceedings demand.
This is where AI-powered legal transcription solutions represent the next generation of court technology, combining machine speed with human expertise. Unlike generic transcription tools, legal-specific solutions must understand complex terminology, recognize multiple speakers, and maintain the level of accuracy required for court-admissible documents.
Beyond Traditional Court Stenographers: AI-Assisted Legal Capture
While traditional court stenographers and court reporters remain essential to legal proceedings, AI technology now amplifies their capabilities in ways that were impossible just a few years ago. Every court reporter benefits from tools that can process vast amounts of testimony while maintaining the accuracy required for legal proceedings. A skilled court transcriptionist working with AI-powered tools can handle significantly higher volumes without sacrificing quality — a critical advantage as courts face growing backlogs.
The evolution of legal transcriptionist jobs reflects the broader transformation happening across the legal technology landscape. Rather than replacing human expertise, AI serves as what industry experts call a “force multiplier” — enhancing the capabilities of legal professionals and allowing them to focus on high-value work that requires human judgment and expertise.
Leading legal transcription agencies are now integrating AI capabilities to meet the growing demands of modern judicial systems. This shift isn’t about automation for its own sake; it’s about leverage. Courts seeking modern AI legal transcription services in Latin America now have access to enterprise-grade technology through partnerships like the one between Verbit and eSteno.
Verbit's Leading Legal AI Meets eSteno's Regional Reach
eSteno brings more than two decades of experience providing real-time reporting, captioning, transcription, translation, and legal language services throughout Latin America. The company has established trusted relationships with major arbitration centers, courts, broadcasters, multinational corporations, and government institutions across the region.
Verbit contributes its advanced voice AI platform and Legal Capture technology, which has already been successfully deployed in courts and legal institutions across other global markets. The company’s legal-trained AI transcription engine, Captivate™, is specifically designed to handle the unique demands of legal proceedings — from complex terminology to multiple speakers and courtroom-specific speech patterns.
“eSteno is the right partner for this launch because of its trusted reputation and deep relationships with courts and legal professionals across South America,” said Nafeesah Pierkhan, VP, Legal Services at Verbit. “This partnership represents another important step in expanding Legal Capture internationally, allowing us to bring our AI-powered legal technology to more courts while working with a partner that understands the unique needs of local judicial systems. Together, we’re helping courts modernize legal proceedings with faster, more accessible, and highly accurate transcripts that improve efficiency and access to justice.”
Under this partnership, eSteno will lead the regional deployment, implementation, sales, and customer support of Legal Capture for courts, arbitration centers, and legal organizations throughout Mexico, Central and South America. This localized approach ensures that the technology is implemented with an understanding of regional legal practices, language nuances, and institutional needs.
How AI Technology Enhances the Work of Every Court Reporter
Legal Capture pairs Verbit’s legal-trained AI transcription engine with expert human review to deliver accurate, searchable transcripts of legal proceedings in real time or from recordings. This approach — combining machine speed with human expertise — addresses one of the fundamental challenges in legal transcription: the need for both speed and absolute accuracy.
The technology offers several key capabilities that directly address the needs of Latin American courts:
- Real-time transcription means judges, attorneys, and court staff can access accurate records during proceedings, not days or weeks later. This immediate access transforms how legal professionals prepare for cross-examinations, review testimony, and make critical decisions during hearings.
- Support for Spanish and Portuguese dialects ensures that courts receive transcripts that reflect how their proceedings actually sound. The system is trained to recognize legal terminology, courtroom speech patterns, and regional language variations — critical factors for producing court-admissible documents.
- Built-in editing tools give legal professionals the ability to refine transcripts with features like transcript editing, paragraph merging, speaker identification, readback functionality, and exhibit marking. These tools maintain the workflow that legal professionals expect while dramatically reducing the time required to produce final documents.
- Security and access controls protect sensitive legal content through encryption and court-admissible formatting. For legal proceedings, confidentiality isn’t optional — it’s a fundamental requirement. Legal Capture is built with these security considerations at its core.
- Flexibility for any hearing format means the technology works equally well for in-person, remote, and hybrid proceedings. As courts throughout Latin America have adapted to new ways of conducting hearings, this flexibility has become increasingly important.
Supporting the Court Transcriptionist & Court Reporters with Advanced Technology
The technology doesn’t replace the expertise of legal professionals — it enhances their capabilities. A court transcriptionist or digital court reporter using Legal Capture can produce searchable, time-stamped transcripts that judges, clerks, and attorneys can trust for hearings, appeals, and archives. The AI handles the tedious work of initial transcription at machine speed, while human experts ensure accuracy and handle the nuances that machines still struggle with.
This approach addresses a critical challenge facing courts worldwide: how to handle increasing volumes of cases without compromising on accuracy or access to justice. By giving legal professionals tools that amplify their capabilities, courts can take on more cases, reduce backlogs, and provide faster service to the people who depend on the judicial system. This is evidenced by Verbit’s work in the US with NAEGELI Deposition & Trial.
Real-World Applications for Latin American Courts and Arbitration Centers
The partnership between Verbit and eSteno targets specific use cases where AI-powered legal transcription solutions can have immediate impact:
- High-volume arbitration centers that need fast, accurate transcripts to keep proceedings moving without sacrificing precision will find Legal Capture particularly valuable. Arbitration often involves complex commercial disputes with tight timelines — delays in transcript production can slow the entire process and increase costs for all parties.
- Judicial systems managing rising caseloads can use AI-assisted transcription to help courts take on more volume while maintaining the accuracy and reliability that legal proceedings demand. When courts face backlogs, access to justice suffers. Technology that helps courts work more efficiently directly serves the public interest.
- Courts modernizing case records benefit from searchable, time-stamped transcripts that judges, clerks, and attorneys can trust for hearings, appeals, and archives. Modern legal research and case preparation depend on the ability to quickly search through transcripts and find relevant testimony — capabilities that traditional paper records simply cannot provide.
“Courts and arbitration centers throughout our region are looking for practical ways to modernize without sacrificing accuracy or trust,” said David Israel, VP, Business Development & Operations at eSteno. “By combining Verbit’s Legal Capture platform with eSteno’s regional expertise and experienced legal language professionals, we’re bringing judicial systems a solution that delivers real-time access to accurate legal records in Spanish and Portuguese while respecting the unique practices of each jurisdiction.”
Why Legal Transcription Agencies Are Embracing AI Technology
The shift toward AI-assisted legal transcription reflects broader trends in legal technology adoption. Courts and legal institutions are increasingly recognizing that technology isn’t a threat to traditional courtroom practices — it’s a tool that enables legal professionals to do their work more effectively.
The most successful implementations of legal technology follow a clear principle: leverage, not automation. AI’s value isn’t just in automating tasks, but in giving courtroom staff and digital court reporting agencies the ability to handle more cases and focus on high-value work that requires human judgment, expertise, and the personal connection that remains at the heart of legal practice.
For Latin American courts specifically, this technology addresses several converging pressures. Rising caseloads put pressure on judicial systems to process more cases without additional resources. The shift toward virtual and hybrid proceedings — accelerated by recent global events — requires technology that can capture testimony with high fidelity and make it instantly searchable. And evolving expectations from legal professionals and the public demand faster access to accurate records.
Looking Ahead: Expanding Access to Justice Through Technology
The Verbit-eSteno partnership represents a commitment to helping courts and arbitration centers throughout Central and South America modernize proceedings through AI-powered transcription that’s supported by experienced legal professionals they can trust.
As judicial systems across the region continue to evolve, the need for reliable, efficient legal transcription will only grow. By bringing together Verbit’s advanced AI technology with eSteno’s deep regional expertise and established relationships throughout Latin America, this partnership is positioned to help courts meet that need while maintaining the accuracy, security, and reliability that legal proceedings require.
For courts, arbitration centers, and legal organizations interested in learning more about Legal Capture for Latin America or scheduling a demonstration, visit Verbit’s Legal Capture page to explore how AI-powered legal transcription solutions can modernize your proceedings while respecting the unique practices and requirements of your jurisdiction.
The future of legal transcription in Latin America is here — and it combines the best of human expertise with the speed and efficiency of artificial intelligence. Book a demo here to see our Legal Capture technology in action with a walkthrough from our team.
