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Posts Tagged ‘realtime deposition’

Realtime Reporting Done By A Newbie

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012

Realtime Reporter – Conquering Your Fears

Professional Court Reporter

Rachel Gwidt, RPR

 This past weekend I attended the Wisconsin Court Reporter convention in Sheboygan.  One of the sessions was about doing real time.  There were three official reporters that spoke about their experiences with real time and “just doing it.”  They mentioned things like their first experiences with it and how they felt and such.  They also pointed out that you don’t have to be perfect and that judges and attorneys really want it.  Now, these ladies all had their certifications and years of experience under their belts, so for them to say that they weren’t perfect, well, it certainly made me think…
I was at a depo today, and the witness was an older gentleman.  Almost every time the questioning attorney asked him a question, he would say something like “I can’t hear you.”  The witness quickly started blaming his inability to hear on an “extreme sinus condition.”  Then the witness started blaming the attorney for having a very powerful voice that was causing an echo in the room, causing the witness to not be able to understand him.  To accommodate the witness, we uprooted and moved to a smaller conference room.  We started back up again and instantly ran into the same problem.  Needless to say, by this time the questioning attorney was very frustrated.  
 
The suggestion was made by defense counsel to reschedule the deposition for another time after the witness had seen his doctor, and that maybe we could attempt it again after his “extreme sinus condition” had subsided.  I immediately said to myself, “Oh, no!  Now I’m not going to get any pages today.”  I asked to go off the record, and then I said something that I still can’t believe came out of my mouth.  I said, “I have an idea.  Why don’t I scoot over and have the witness and his attorney sit next to me so that they can see my screen? That way it doesn’t matter if the witness can’t hear your question because he can just read it.”  So that’s what we did. The deposition proceeded right along, and we got it done.  
 
To my pleasant surprise, I didn’t freeze up and write badly.  I wrote exactly the same as I would have written with nobody being able to see it.  Actually, I feel like I focused harder than if no one was watching.  Everyone was able to read it just fine.  Did I have some things in my favor?  Absolutely.  It wasn’t super fast and technical (just a nice, short, easy car accident-type case).  I thought to myself, what a stroke of luck to be able to have my first real time experience be so easy and stress free.  Do I feel this automatically qualifies me to take a real time patent case with 12 attorneys hooked up to me tomorrow?  Absolutely not, but what I got from the experience was huge to me.  It was validation of my writing skills and confirmation that I CAN do it.  Most of all, I came away with a new confidence in myself that I didn’t have yesterday (or all the days before that for that matter).  Those of you that know me fairly well know what I’m talking about! 
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My boss suggested that a next good step would be to write real time for an attorney that I feel comfortable with; you know, explain that I’m working on being a real time reporter and ask if I could set up an extra laptop.  I think that’s a really good idea and a comfortable way of moving forward.  Can you guess what my new favorite saying is? “JUST DO IT!” 
 
 
Rachel Gwidt, 
Registered Professional Court Reporter 

Tags: Court Reporting, court reporting technology, Realtime, realtime deposition, stenographer
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LEGAL SUPPORT SERVICES | COMPUTER LITIGATION SUPPORT

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

Comprehensive Court Reporting Service | Do you need to conduct a realtime video deposition with the realtime text and the audio feed  streamed to a third-party? Court Reporter Realtime Internet Streaming

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!!

 

Tags: audio and realtime text internet streaming, certified realtime court reporter, computer litigation support, internet streaming, legal deposition, realtime deposition, video deposition
Posted in All Posts, Court Reporting, Technology | 7 Comments » | Add Comments

 
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