About this Legal Videographer role at Filevine

Filevine · Hybrid · Houston, Texas

Filevine is a Legal AI company delivering Legal Operating Intelligence for the future of legal work. Grounded in a singular system of truth, Filevine brings together data, documents, workflows, and teams into one unified platform—where modern legal work happens with clarity and consistency.

Powered by LOIS, the Legal Operating Intelligence System, Filevine connects context across every matter to transform legal operations from reactive to proactive. LOIS reads, understands, and reasons across your data to surface insight, automate complexity, and give professionals the clarity and confidence to see more, know more, and do more. Fueled by a team of exceptional collaborators and innovators, Filevine’s rapid growth has earned AI awards and recognition from Deloitte and Inc. as one of the most innovative and fastest-growing technology companies in the country.

Role Summary:

As a legal videographer, you record high-quality video and audio of legal proceedings like depositions and trials, ensuring the footage meets strict legal, technical, and ethical standards to serve as official records or evidence. You work closely with attorneys, court reporters, and paralegals, either as part of a legal services firm or as a freelancer.

Responsibilities

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 (e.g. 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 (attorneys, court reporting agencies) to understand requirements for each case or deposition (e.g., 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.

Qualifications

Technical ability with video and audio equipment: cameras, microphones, lighting, tripods, etc.

Experience or familiarity with video editing software (e.g. Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, or similar), 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.

Work Location Expectation: This position is based out of our San Francisco, Chicago, Salt Lake City or New York offices. Candidates residing in or near these metro areas are expected to work on a hybrid (2-3 days in-office/week) or fully onsite basis.

Cool Company Benefits:

- A dynamic, rapidly growing company, focused on helping organizations thrive

- 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

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