By Leah Willersdorf I had three life dreams when I was a young girl between the ages of 15-17. In no particular order, one was…
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NCRF Trustee Marjorie Peters, FAPR, RMR, CRR, of Alexandria, Va., took the time to recognize Veterans Day by transcribing the 2003 interview of veteran Joseph…
A recent grassroots effort launched in the wake of circulating dissension in the court reporting profession has succeeded in successfully establishing a place where drama…
From a JCR Weekly poll What punctuation mark is misused the most? Comma 52.9 percent Semi-colon 31.6 percent Quotation marks 3.8 percent Hyphen 3 percent…
How many languages do you know? I know English and steno. 61.2% I know English, steno, and one more (but not fluently). 28.5% I know…
NCRA member Andrea J. Johnson is a court reporter turned freelance entertainment writer for the women’s lifestyle website Popsugar. This love for insider gossip has…
Claudia Booton, RPR, is an official in Denver District Court in Denver, Colo., who has been using the social media platform TikTok to promote court…
Here’s a collection of materials to help you through the days ahead. We’ve also collected some from other websites. Legislative information How the Federal stimulus…
On Feb. 20, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow expressed her thanks to court reporters, saying: “It is really hard to get detailed, perfect court transcripts turned around…
Everyone who has been a court reporting student knows the effort that goes into achieving each new speed level. One school, Green River College in…
Again this year, dictionaries chose the words most talked about, thought about, or worried about to be the words of the year for 2019. Merriam-Webster…
The Norman [Okla.] Transcript posted an article on Nov. 18 about how court reporter Marla Cullison juggles her role as a hockey mom and an…
Recently on social media we posted that Baby Shark was the song that inspired the Washington Nationals baseball team and their fans to a World…
In honor of all the Halloween scares happening this week, we asked court reporters on social media what bad dreams they have had. Here are…
Jeffrey Weigl, RMR, CRR, CRC, from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, won the 2019 Speed Contest held during the NCRA Convention & Expo. His overall accuracy rate…
We recently asked this fill-in-the-blank question on the NCRA Facebook page. Here are some of the great answers: You know you’re a court reporter if…
In honor of National Punctuation Day on Sept. 24, we recently asked these questions on the NCRA Facebook page. Here are some of the responses:…
By Monyeen Black, RPR, CRR About 10 years ago I purchased my first motorcycle after completing a motorcycle safety class in Paso Robles, Calif. I…
Keep up to date with voting results, award announcements, and more events currently taking place at the NCRA 2019 Convention & Expo in Denver, Colo.…
By Patricia Nilsen (with Kiki Kim) As a lifelong fan of Mötley Crüe, the glam-metal band that became famous in the 1980s, my dream as…