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New experience for California court reporter

Joan Columbini, RPR, a freelance court reporter from Walnut Creek, Calif., recently had a first-time reporting experience. She was working with a trial witness who…

Court reporting in the Army in Vietnam

By Mervin Vaughn  The National Court Reporters Foundation (NCRF) presented the 2019 Santo J. Aurelio Award to Mervin E. Vaughn, RPR, from Runnels, Iowa, at…

A Helter Skelter Trial Memoir

By Early Langley Nov. 19, 2017, marked the death of one of the most vile cult leaders and murderers in California history: Charles Manson. Much…

Making the most of realtime transcription

Law Technology Today posted an article on July 22 that was authored by NCRA member Rosalie Kramm, RPR, CRR, San Diego, Calif., who offered attorneys…

A most unique situation to report

Earlier this month, NCRA member Taleesa Smith, RPR, an official court reporter from Hamilton County, Ohio, found herself reporting a sentencing proceeding from outside of…

The benefits of pro bono work

By Lisa Migliore Black The call from the out-of-state attorney seemed much like any other. “We’ll need a court reporter and videographer to cover a…

Bringing captions to Coachella

By Heidi Renner When Isaiah Roberts, RPR, Magnolia, Ill., thought he wrote the word lemon while captioning Ariana Grande’s performance at Coachella, he was a…

Actor Tom Hanks ‘hearts’ captioning

NCRA member Jo Gayle, RPR, CRR, CRC, a freelance captioner from Chicago, Ill., recently earned a shout-out from actor Tom Hanks for her captioning skills…

Steno on the go!

What’s the strangest place you’ve had to tap-tap-tap away on your little machine, knowing that people are relying on your speech-to-text output? A bus perhaps?…