Each year at the NCRA Convention, the National Court Reporters Foundation awards its highest honor, the Santo J. Aurelio Award for Altruism. This award goes…
Mirabai Knight, RDR, CRR, CBC, CCP, recently captioned !!Con (pronounced bang bang con), a conference for New York City programmers held May 17 – 18, according…
Some lawyers have found that videos can be an effective tool in getting better sentences for clients, according to a May 29 article in the…
The finals for the 2014 Scripps National Spelling Bee were held May 29, in National Harbor, Maryland. Ansun Sujoe, 13, from Bethesda Christian School in…
The May 31 New York Times interviewed captioner Karla Ray, RMR, CRR, CBC, as part of its Vocations column, a recurring feature that asks people…
By David Ward When Laura Grosso, head of Pennsylvania-based ERSA Court Reporting, turned to cloud solution provider Broadview Networks for business telephone and hosted IT…
By Rachel Gamez There is a poster hanging in the courtroom that says, “Nobody said it would be easy; they said it’d be worth it.”…
By Monette Benoit Did you know there is a Thumb Wrestling Federation and the United Kingdom has World Thumb Wrestling Championships? This is serious business…
Question: When should one start to save for the NCRA Annual Convention? Answer: Now! If you’ve got an incredible income, sure, go ahead and pay…
The Illinois Secretary of State and the Illinois State Library in Springfield held an event in support of the Veterans History Project at the Adams…
By Dennis Depew As I write this column, there is a move afoot in the Kansas House to begin the process of eliminating court…
The following is the text of the testimony portion of the NCRA Speed Contest held in Nashville, Tenn. Q. Good afternoon, sir. Would you please state…
Currently resides in Flagstaff, Ariz. Position: Captioner Member since 1981 Graduated from: American Institute of Commerce, Bettendorf, Iowa Theory: Philadelphia Clinic Theory Favorite tip: Never…
By Tammy Milcowitz Have you ever gotten to an on-site CART job and set up your steno machine and laptop computer only to realize that…
Take this job and love it Q. After high school did you do any vocational or college? A. I went to college six months to…
There are many variables that make a person successful: education, talent, and hard work are just a few. But, there’s also grit — or better…
Pillynews.com reported on May 24 that Russell T. Harris Jr., 89, of Philadelphia, a federal court reporter for many years, died Friday, May 16, of…
The Sioux City News in Iowa ran an article May 26 about the efforts of local court reporters there working to recruit the next generation…
Nearly two years ago, Kolby Garrison from Greensboro, N.C., enrolled as an online student at Brown College of Court Reporting in Atlanta, Ga. Like other…