By Matthew Barusch Recently, the California Supreme Court handed down a decision in the case Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court that will make…
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Explore coverage of the 2018 NCRA Convention & Expo in New Orleans, La., with the stories below. Awards and scholarships NCRF Announces 2018 Robert H.…
By Cassandra Caldarella The intention of this article is not to convince you to become a court reporter or that court reporting is a great career. My…
New Orleans is celebrating its tricentennial in 2018 with the theme of “One time in New Orleans…” where they are asking visitors and locals to…
While working for Orange Legal in Tavares, Fla., Tiffany Treffeisen, RPR, and Lisa Shuman, RPR, shared reporting duties on an eminent domain case earlier this…
Kim Falgiani, RMR, CRC, became a court reporter in 1980 and then became a broadcast captioner in 2002. After some years in broadcast captioning, she went through…
NCRA launched an online version of its popular NCRA A to ZTM Intro to Steno Machine Shorthand program on March 30, increasing the accessibility of…
By Keith Lemons THE STRUGGLE IS REAL. That’s a saying for just about everything nowadays. As court reporters, we know that it is real every day, all…
Since 2004, long-time NCRA member Marjorie Peters, RMR, CRR, a freelance captioner and court reporter from Pittsburgh, Pa., has volunteered for Light of Life Rescue…
By Marybeth Everhart “It doesn’t work.” That’s a sentence I’ve heard many, many times over the years, as a teacher, long-time CAT software trainer (and user), and…
By Cassy Kerr Success means different things to different people, but my success story is overcoming my fear of failure. Having done that has opened…
By Monette Benoit and Anthony Frisolone They say, “The lights shine brightly on Broadway.” Those people have obviously never been inside a courtroom in New York City…
By Ian Hardy I started covering international depositions as a legal videographer more than seventeen years ago. During the time I was living in Paris,…
While there are many attractive attributes to a career in court reporting, perhaps one of the most intriguing is the opportunity to travel abroad for…
By Terry McGill Exiting your business is a hot topic for many owners that seems fairly simple at first glance. You start your firm, let…
By Linda A. Kaiser What is fear? Webster’s defines fear as an unpleasant, often strong emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger. In the…
You don’t need to take Nancy Varallo’s word for it. We have heard from several of the A to Z program leaders about their experiences. “It is…
By Ron Cook Providing realtime for the first (and second, third, fourth, and so on) time is extremely uncomfortable. It was for me and for…
By Katherine Schilling Recently, I hit my one-year mark as a working deposition reporter in the Richmond, Va., area. Over the course of that one…
By Mary B. Bader When it comes to being fearful of sending realtime translation to the judge or anyone else, you will never meet a…