Readback is a remote deposition and court-reporting service brand operated by InfraWare, combining AI-assisted transcript generation with human editors and a live ‘Guardian’ who runs the proceeding, handles exhibits, and provides tech support. The strongest verified market signal is faster turnaround than traditional remote court reporting: public pricing promises rough drafts in 1 hour on the premium tier and certified transcripts by the next business day, while public attorney case studies describe using same-day or next-day transcripts to prep the next witness, lock in testimony, and avoid rush-fee economics. It looks most relevant for litigation teams, employment litigators, and small or midsize firms that want remote-deposition support plus transcript speed without opaque per-page pricing. The weak point is independent market validation: the brand name is a common court-reporting term, Reddit and review-site discovery are noisy, and most credible evidence still comes from Readback, InfraWare, LawNext directory listings, and vendor-hosted case studies rather than a large body of third-party practitioner reviews.
Capabilities
Spans 2 product areas: Court Reporting, Depositions and Hearings.
Workflow Coverage
Based on published feature listings, this tool maps to 2 workflow areas:
- Document Review & Management — Exhibit Management
- Communication & Collaboration
Workflow mappings derived from published feature lists. Not independently verified.
What We Haven’t Verified
This page was assembled from publicly available information. Feature claims and workflow mappings are based on what the vendor and third-party listings publish — not hands-on testing or practitioner feedback.
Workflows
Based on practitioner evidence, Readback is used in these workflows:
What practitioners struggle with
Real frustrations from legal professionals — the problems Readback addresses (or should address). Sourced from practitioner reviews, Reddit threads, and case studies.
Solo or small firm litigator records a 4-hour deposition but can't afford the $2,000+ court reporter fee for a full transcript — they take handwritten notes during the deposition and rely on memory for the rest, missing critical admissions they didn't catch in real time
Litigation team has hours of deposition and hearing recordings that need to become court-formatted transcripts before a filing deadline — in-house transcription is too slow and general transcription services return documents full of legal terminology errors that need multiple rounds of correction
Litigator preparing for cross-examination has 30 depositions and 200 exhibits spread across separate PDFs — toggling between documents in Adobe Acrobat or printing everything to paper, losing the connection between what a witness said on page 47 and the exhibit that contradicts it
Litigation attorney takes a 4-hour deposition on Tuesday but the transcript won't arrive for 10-15 business days — by then the details are fuzzy, the next witness prep is rushed, and opposing counsel has already moved to exclude the testimony on a technicality the attorney can't remember clearly enough to rebut
During a remote deposition the witness is looking at Exhibit 14 but the attorney can't see both the witness's face and the exhibit at the same time — toggling between video feeds and document shares means missing the witness's reaction when confronted with a damaging document
Where it fits in your workflow
Before Readback
Attorney schedules a remote deposition or hearing and needs a supported record with transcript access during or immediately after the proceeding.
After Readback
Lawyers use the rough, near-time, or certified transcript to prep the next witness, draft motions, cite testimony, and move the record into later briefing or filing workflows.
Integrations & hand-offs
Readback owns the live proceeding plus transcript/audio delivery; the handoff after the deposition is into exhibit review, witness prep, chronology building, and court filing tools.
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