Turning field recordings and evidence into review-ready, defensible transcripts.
Miller & Shaw LLP is a criminal defense firm handling complex cases where accuracy, timing, and documentation directly affect outcomes. With Sonix, their attorneys and legal assistants capture conversations on the spot, transcribe imperfect real-world audio with confidence, and turn recordings into secure, court-ready transcripts they can stand behind.
Miller & Shaw LLP is a criminal defense firm handling complex cases where accuracy, timing, and documentation directly impact outcomes. In many situations, there are no second chances to capture or interpret what was said.
Their work relies on client interviews, witness statements, and field recordings made outside the office, along with review of dashcam and bodycam footage and the fast preparation of usable, defensible transcripts. Legal teams often work in unpredictable environments — on the phone, in the field, or reviewing third-party recordings — where conversations and recordings aren't just inputs, they're evidence.
You sometimes only get one clean shot at the conversation. Sonix captures it accurately and gets us to a review-ready transcript fast.
Critical conversations and evidence were hard to capture — and harder to trust.
Legal teams often work in unpredictable environments — on the phone, in the field, or reviewing third-party recordings. Before Sonix, conversations were recorded inconsistently, notes were reconstructed after the fact, and dashcam and bodycam footage required manual review. Transcription was slow, outsourced, or unreliable, and legal assistants spent hours preparing usable transcripts. Key details could be missed, poor audio made transcription difficult, and exact wording could be disputed. In criminal defense, that's not just inefficient — it introduces risk into the case itself.
Accurate in real-world conditions — and built to be defensible.
Sonix stood out for its accuracy in real-world conditions: strong performance across accents, environments, and background noise; reliable transcription of conversational, unscripted speech; the ability to handle law enforcement recordings and field audio; and precise timestamps tied to the original media. Combined with mobile capture and collaboration, it gave the firm a system to rely on in high-stakes situations. Built for sensitive legal evidence, Sonix supports SOC 2 compliance, HIPAA-ready workflows and Business Associate Agreements (BAA) for sensitive PII/PHI, encrypted storage, role-based access, audit trails, and a clear chain of custody from original recording through final transcript.
Higher confidence, faster review, and a stronger, more defensible record.
With Sonix, transcript accuracy improved — even for difficult audio sources — and dashcam and bodycam footage can be analyzed in a fraction of the time. Timestamped transcripts, audit trails, and a clear chain of custody strengthen the record, while cases move from recording to review-ready far more quickly. The firm relies less on memory, misses fewer details, and documents everything more clearly — reducing risk where it matters most.
We stopped scrubbing hours of dashcam footage. Now we search the transcript, jump to the exact moment, and cite it word for word.
How the firm turns recordings into court-ready evidence.
How does Miller & Shaw LLP capture conversations in the field?
Attorneys use Sonix's mobile recorder to capture client interviews, witness statements, and conversations in real time — whether in the office or out in the field. Because they sometimes only get one clean shot at a conversation, capturing it accurately on the spot, without friction, removes the need to reconstruct notes after the fact.
How well does Sonix transcribe difficult, real-world legal audio?
From quiet client meetings to noisy environments and recorded evidence, Sonix consistently produces highly accurate, timestamped transcripts the team can trust. Strong performance across accents, background noise, and unscripted speech means the firm can rely on it even when audio quality is imperfect.
How does Sonix speed up review of dashcam and bodycam footage?
Instead of manually scrubbing hours of video, the team transcribes dashcam and bodycam footage and works directly from text — searching for key phrases or events, jumping to exact moments in the footage, and identifying inconsistencies or critical statements quickly. This dramatically reduces evidence review time while improving accuracy.
How do attorneys and legal assistants work together in Sonix?
Transcripts are handed off to legal assistants who review, edit, and prepare them for use, significantly reducing turnaround. Attorneys and assistants work from the same transcript, ensuring consistency and eliminating duplicated effort across the team.
How are Sonix transcripts used in depositions and trial preparation?
Transcripts are used directly in deposition prep, witness review, and trial strategy, where precise wording and timing are critical. Timestamped references let attorneys quickly validate and cite exact statements, tying every quote back to the original recording.
How does Sonix keep legal transcripts secure and defensible?
Handling sensitive legal conversations and evidence requires enterprise-grade safeguards. Sonix supports SOC 2 compliance, HIPAA-ready workflows and Business Associate Agreements (BAA) for sensitive PII/PHI, encrypted storage and secure infrastructure, role-based access to transcripts and recordings, audit trails showing who accessed or edited content, and a clear chain of custody from original recording through final transcript — so transcripts are secure, traceable, and defensible.
What changed for the attorneys and legal assistants.
Capture wherever it happens
Sonix's mobile recorder captures interviews, witness statements, and client conversations in real time — in the office or in the field — so nothing depends on memory.
Accurate on imperfect audio
Reliable transcription across accents, background noise, and unscripted speech — including law enforcement recordings and field audio — with precise timestamps tied to the original media.
Evidence review by text
Transcribe dashcam and bodycam footage and search it by text — jump to exact moments and surface critical statements in a fraction of the time.
Secure, traceable, defensible
SOC 2, HIPAA-ready workflows with BAA support, encryption, role-based access, audit trails, and a clear chain of custody from recording to final transcript.
Capture once, review faster, and stand behind every word.
From field recordings to dashcam footage and trial prep, Sonix helps legal teams turn conversations and recordings into accurate, secure, and court-ready transcripts. High accuracy. Secure workflows. Defensible transcripts.
