Ordering a Transcript: Oregon Appeals

Step by Step

How to order

1. Designate the proceedings to be transcribed in section 4 of the Notice of Appeal, “Designation of Record.”  The respondent may designate additional proceedings.
2. Serve the notice on the trial court’s Transcript Coordinator.
3. The coordinator assigns a transcriber from the appellate court’s list.  You may ask for a specific listed transcriber, and the coordinator may honor that request.
4. The coordinator notifies the parties of the transcriber and due date, and sends the transcriber a certified copy of the recording.
5. In civil and other non-indigent cases, the transcriber sends you an estimate and asks for advance payment.  If payment is not arranged within 14 days, the transcriber notifies the Appellate Court Records Office.
6. The transcript is due 30 days after the notice of appeal is filed (ORS 19.370), or 120 days if the case enters the Appellate Settlement Conference Program.

Good to Know

Rates, audio, and deadlines

A fee waiver does not cover the cost of the transcript.

In indigent criminal, post-conviction, habeas, civil commitment, and juvenile cases, the Oregon Public Defense Commission pays the transcriber with prior authorization, at its approved rate of $4.25 per page.

Parties have 15 days after the transcript is filed to move to correct it.

For a transcript outside an appeal, request the audio from the circuit court that held the hearing and take it to a transcriber.  Each circuit court sets its own audio request process and fee.

Official Sources

From the court

Everything on this page comes from the court’s own published procedures, which can change.  Always check the court’s page before you file: Transcripts: self-represented parties, Information for transcribers, Appellate Transcript Procedures (PDF).

Want LunarScripts on your case?  Contact us first, then ask the Transcript Coordinator to assign your transcript to us.