Last week, a representative from Good Karma Brands, a sports marketing firm based in Milwaukee, Wis., contacted the National Court Reporters Foundation with a last-minute…
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Madison.com reported on May 2 that Larry M. Ewing, age 76, a court stenographer for the state of Wisconsin, passed away on April 18. Ewing,…
Attorney Karen Koehler, in her blog The Velvet Hammer, provides a few tips on how lawyers should treat court reporters. Read more.
Currently resides in: Medford, Wis. Position: Official court reporter Member since: 1989 Graduated from: Rasmussen Business College Theory: Stenograph Why did you decide to become…
I’ve been reporting over 43 years, and three developments in the reporting profession have profoundly changed the way I perform my work: Computer-aided transcription, the…
Leonard W. Ehlers, a retired official court reporter of the 36th Judicial Circuit of the State of Missouri, passed away on March 27 in Columbia,…
Wesley Vincent Gales, 84, of Sturgeon Bay, passed away on April 19 with family at his side. He was born August 26, 1930, in Milwaukee,…
Taylor Reese, at the age of 92, passed away peacefully on March 27. Taylor was born and raised on a farm in Eastern North Carolina.…
Richard “Dick” Schmidt passed away on April 10, losing a short and courageous battle with cancer. Dick was an official court reporter for Winnebago County…
William “Bill” Shimeta, FAPR, died April 7 at the age of 91. A retired member of NCRA, Shimeta was a court reporter for 58, serving…
Bernardsville News, Morristown, N.J., reported on April 24 that court reporter Anna Maria Racioppi, co-owner of Sentry Court Reporting & Litigation Services, Cedar Knolls, N.J.,…
NCRA Past President Leonard W. Ehlers, formerly of Poplar Bluff, Mo., and retired official court reporter of the 36th Judicial Circuit of the State of…
ESPNW.Today posted an interview on March 27 with NCRA member Toni Christy, RPR, CRR, CBC, CCP, a broadcast captioner from La Mesa, Calif. Christy became…
Currently resides in: Caseyville, Ill. (suburb of St. Louis, Mo.) Position: CART captioner Member since: 1998 Graduated from: Sparks College, Shelbyville, Ill., in 1998 and…
I wanted to add a comment to your “Jetsetting reporters” article, which misrepresented the abilities of British and Australian reporters to cover depositions and other…
The story that went viral earlier this week about three inquisitive members of the Wisconsin University’s men’s basketball team who took their curiosity about the…
Court reporters and broadcast and CART captioners are used to working behind-the-scenes, but last weekend, an unexpected spotlight shined on NCRA member Toni Christy, RPR,…
According to a March 21 post on ESPN’s Men’s College Basketball Blog, three Wisconsin Badgers players discovered the NCAA captioner—NCRA member Toni Christy, RPR, CRR,…
NCRA member Kim Brandon Tindall, RPR, San Antonio, Texas, and owner of Kim Tindall & Associates, LLC, recently won the title of All Star Candidate…
The Third Branch, a publication of the Wisconsin Court System, recently profiled NCRA member Edward “Ed” Johnson, RPR, CRR, who took the official record during…