Things To Know About Professional Court Reporting Services

1. Things To Know About Professional Court Reporting Services Submitted By : Georgia Reporting

2. What comes to your mind, when you hear about court? It's definitely the attorney's, the judge, the jury, the prosecuted or the charges and other things. But have you ever wondered about the court reporting services. Yes court reporting services are one of the most important services in the functioning of everyday court proceedings. Court reporters are specially trained professionals who at least type 225 words per minute to deliver an accurate record of court events. However, most of the time their services are overlooked.

3. The silent, humble and often ignored member of court sits quietly throughout the court proceedings and types just everything that is spoken into the stenography machine. Until last decade court every court room in the country, had a court reporter but with times, things changed. Though court reporting services were need of the hour, many courts had to let them go due to the budget issues. However, for non-criminal proceeding, litigants were given the option of bringing their own court reporter to court with them or else purchase a very poor quality of audio recording of the proceeding. Obviously, neither of these two are good options.

4. And so court reporting firms came into existence. Most of the court reporting firms were started by either former or current court reporters. This is because they well understood the business and also knew its importance. Today, when asked about court reporting services every attorney would agree that real time court recording is the best. Real time is not business as usual but here are a very important benefits that make real time court recording services a must.

5. One of the biggest advantage is that you get an immediate access to verbal testimony. When one opts for real time reporting, all the parties have up – to –the – minute laptop access to rough transcripts. When said all the parties it includes everyone from the counsel to the house counsel, the co-counsel, the clients and even clerks, clients experts and not to forget the legal assistants present in the “war room”.

6. The other important advantage of real time court reporting services provided by various court reporting firms is that it makes you capable for private marking. All parties can privately mark and makes private notes next to the actual testimony so that many critical action items can be remembered for later.

7. Litigation is a dynamic process with many moving parts and court reporting all those parts is one of the most important tasks. Therefore while hiring a court reporting firm for your court reporting services, you should always consider why is this position and this service important not only for your case but also for you.

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