NCRA’s Taking Realtime Awareness and Innovation Nationwide committee offers court reporters advice and inspiration on taking the next step in providing realtime, whether it is…
Posts published in January 2014
At some point, every court reporting student is asked to read back everything they write, practice the challenging words and briefs in an effort to…
Like most professions, court reporting is a world unto itself. We are a tight-knit community of freelancers, officials, captioners, and the like, all bound together…
The Distinguished Service Award encourages and recognizes work amounting to distinguished service by individual members of NCRA for the benefit of the reporting profession. That…
A Poway High School student who has a hearing impairment recently learned that an injunction was granted that requires the Poway Unified School District to…
According to a recent article posted by the Pittsburg Tribune-Review, officials in Allegheny County, Pa., relied on sign language interpreter Danielle Filip to help deliver…
FOX News 4 in Kansas City, Mo., recently ran a story about local Girl Scout Catherine Pestinger and Project: Don’t Miss a Line, an effort…
Across the nation, plans are being finalized to mark the 2014 National Court Reporting & Captioning Week, Feb. 16 – 22, and the excitement is…
NCRA has published a document offering general information for court reporters and court reporting firms about the changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability…
The article “Speech recognition, the unreachable frontier,” published in Mobile News on Jan. 3, notes that speech recognition has not advanced as much as some…
Inspired by Nancy Varallo’s “Thirty ways to give back” post in November, we’ve highlighted ten ways you can give back to the court reporting profession.…
The JCR provides newsworthy information on reporter-related products and technologies. This column is for readers to use in their research; neither NCRA nor the JCR…
In a recent interview, NCRA Vice President Glyn Poage, RDR, CRR, CSR, from Helotes, Texas, discussed the skills, duties, and professional opportunities for court reporters…
Court reporters, captioners, CART providers, and court reporting schools around the country are making plans now to celebrate the 2014 National Court Reporting & Captioning…
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote in his annual report on the state of the federal judiciary that the budget cuts imposed by Congress…
NCRA member Bonita Bell was recognized in the Jan 5. Pittsburgh’s TribLive.com when she received her RMR certification. Read more.
It is that time of year to remember to: 1. Start new paper calendars for the office and the courtroom if your court still requires paper.…
In early December, I was able to attend a Bloomberg Government panel discussion on tax reform on behalf of NCRA. Robert Litan, Jennifer Blouin, William…
Giving back to the profession does not require a significant investment of time or money. You might pen a simple post to your Facebook page…