About this role
Job title: Legal Videographer
About the Role
Filevine is seeking a Legal Videographer to record high-quality video and audio of legal proceedings, ensuring the footage meets strict legal, technical, and ethical standards to serve as official records or evidence. You will work closely with attorneys, court reporters, and paralegals, either as part of a legal services firm or as a freelancer.
What You'll Do
- Set up, test, and operate video, audio, lighting, and related equipment in depositions, courtrooms, or other legal settings.
- Ensure that recordings are clear, accurate, and continuous, capturing both visual and audio elements including witness statements, attorney questions, non-verbal cues with minimal disruption.
- Monitor recording during the event: adjust lighting, audio levels or camera angles if needed.
- Edit the footage afterwards: remove extraneous content, synchronize with transcripts if required, add timestamps, labels identifying speaker, ensure compliance with standard formats.
- Prepare the video for presentation, which may include formatting for court use, making backup copies, encoding/transcoding, ensuring data security, proper file storage, archiving.
- Adhere to all legal, procedural, ethical, and confidentiality standards. Maintain chain of custody and ensure integrity of recordings as evidence.
- Coordinate with legal professionals to understand requirements for each case or deposition including specific angles, transcript synchronization, format.
- Maintain and manage equipment: perform regular maintenance, keep up-to-date on new video and audio technologies, troubleshoot technical issues.
- Occasionally, present or assist in presenting video evidence or depositions in the courtroom.
What We're Looking For
- Technical ability with video and audio equipment: cameras, microphones, lighting, tripods, etc.
- Experience or familiarity with video editing software, ability to sync video with transcripts, encode or convert formats.
- Strong attention to detail, good listening skills, ability to capture nonverbal cues, maintain continuity.
- Understanding of legal proceedings, terminology, rules of evidence, courtroom / deposition protocols.
- Ethical conduct, discretion, confidentiality: dealing with sensitive legal material and witness testimony.
- Ability to maintain chain of custody and ensure integrity of recordings as evidence.
- Coordination with legal professionals to understand requirements for each case or deposition.
Nice to Have
- Optional/preferred qualifications
Compensation & Benefits
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance for full-time employees
- Competitive & Fair Pay
- Maternity & paternity leave for full-time employees
- Short & long-term disability
- Opportunity to learn from a dedicated leadership team
- Top-of-the-line company swag