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Blog submitted by Kathy Carter, RMR, CRR
I recently had the opportunity to provide realtime court reporting services for two days of technical expert witness video depositions in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. One of the parties was requesting daily copy delivery for these depositions. The same party also requested that my realtime text and the audio feed be streamed to the Internet for their use.
I had provided these streaming services in the past with older technology, but for this deposition Brown & Jones chose to use a new streaming service called LiveDeposition. LiveDeposition allows streaming to the Internet of realtime text, audio feed, and video; and although this was a video deposition, the video stream was not requested for these particular depositions.
Overall, the whole process ran very smoothly. The steps required to connect the feeds to the Internet were fairly simple and easy to understand. A few clicks of the mouse, and everything was set to go. Support from LiveDeposition was great. They got the client set up with everything they required and answered all their questions. LiveDeposition also monitored the feeds at the beginning of the depositions, just to make sure all was proceeding well.
There was also an attorney who was present in the deposition conference room that requested to be hooked up via CaseViewNet realtime feed. He hadn’t made prior arrangements, but it was no problem. I loaded the software on his computer, so he was ready to go and hooked up in seconds.
In addition, even as I was streaming the realtime text and audio feed to the Internet from the deposition conference room, my computer‑aided transcription program, CaseCatalyst by Stenograph, was also able to send the transcript to a scopist via the Internet to facilitate the daily copy delivery that had been requested.
Well, needless to say, I had to be on my game for this assignment. At the end of the depositions, I was very happy with the way everything went. It gives me great satisfaction to be able to provide the kind of computer litigation support services that the legal community today is demanding. We, as deposition reporters, are definitely keeping up with this litigation technology. In fact, I think sometimes we are leading the way!!
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April 11th, 2012 at 4:31 pm
Good for you, Kathy! Sounds like you did a great job. I hope I will be able to be an awesome reporter like you one day!
April 11th, 2012 at 4:42 pm
Kathy,
You are always someone that is leading the way for the rest of us! You set such a great example on keeping up with the newest technology. It was a pleasure to work with you on that case.
April 11th, 2012 at 6:52 pm
Thank you, Kathy, for the invaluable skills that you bring to Brown & Jones and our clients. You are a role model for us all.
April 11th, 2012 at 8:25 pm
Kathy, you are exactly the kind of reporter I want to be like. Thanks for sharing your experience. You are truly topnotch.
April 11th, 2012 at 11:00 pm
Congratulations, Kathy. How rewarding it must be to put all your hard work into practice. You are a great example of setting goals and meeting them. As they say – “Job well done!”
April 12th, 2012 at 6:52 pm
Kathy, I enjoyed reading your blog. With your superb real-time reporting skills that you have worked on for many years, and the most up-to-date internet streaming technology, you have proven how valuable court reporters can be and how important that all reporters work hard to constantly improve our writing skills on a variety of technical subjects.
May 3rd, 2012 at 1:09 am
Wow, Kathy! Brown & Jones is so lucky to have such a technologically savvy reporter like you!