What are the benefits of Using Legalese Reporting Services versus other reporting firms?

• Most of the time you will be working with either Lori or Terry for your court-reporting needs.  In the event of a scheduling conflict, we have access to equally qualified and dedicated reporters.
• Experience in all venues, including depositions, arbitration hearings, federal and state court proceedings, board meetings, and panel discussions.
• Experience in reading back testimony.
• Familiarity with complex litigation. We can handle medical, engineering, oil-and-gas and technical terminology with a minimum of disruption and distraction during the deposition and will allow you to relax knowing that when you need the record, it will be accurate and complete.
• In a case with multiple witnesses, we can build a database to share with one another so there is more consistency in your transcripts.
• We keep our client’s preferences and share with one another so that means less time explaining to the court reporter what your transcript needs are.
• We have everything automated, like our online scheduling, bookkeeping (so if you need all the bills in a particular case, we can quickly provide that to you), and our transcript repository (24/7 access to your depositions, exhibits, etc.)

• In large, ongoing cases with multiple witnesses, we keep track of your next exhibit number, and we also provide and update three-ring exhibit binders. One less thing on your plate.

What are all those initials behind your names?

CSR is the designation given by the Oklahoma Court Reporters Association (OCRA) which now is a three-part test designed to test the knowledge, skills and ability to produce a high-quality verbatim record. The Oklahoma CSR now includes:

• Literary at 180 wpm
• Testimony/Q&A at 200 wpm
• Written Knowledge Test

RPR (Registered Professional Reporter) is a designation given by the National Court Reporters Association (NCRA).  In addition to a written knowledge test, three skills tests must be passed:

• Literary at 180 wpm
• Jury Charge at 200 wpm
• Testimony/Q&A at 225 wpm

RMR (Registered Merit Reporter) is an NCRA designation which also tests a reporter’s written knowledge, and an additional three skills tests must be passed:

• Literary at 200 wpm
• Jury Charge at 240 wpm
• Testimony/Q&A at 260 wpm

CRR (Certified Realtime Reporter) is also an NCRA designation which consists of:

1. Accurately writing realtime for five minutes at 96% accuracy from literary material at 180 wpm and
2. Converting the realtime file to a .txt file.  Grading is based only on the unedited file from the steno machine, allowing no additional corrections to be made.

All the designations listed above come with a varying requirement of yearly continuing education hours.

How does that little machine work?

With only 22 keys, it is a little mind-boggling.  The combination of some letters (keys) makes a different letter.  Like, say, you hit the P key and the B key at the same time with your right hand.   That’s how we write an “N.”  Then there are brief forms, like “STAURPB” which is one stroke but translates to read “State your name.”  There are literally tens of thousands of entries in a court reporter’s dictionary that translates our steno into English.

What is Realtime?

Realtime reporting is when you can see the English scrolling across a laptop, phone or tablet while the deposition/hearing is being held.  That way you can see what your last question was or what the last answer was without having to repeat it.  Taken another step further, you can even hook your laptop up to the reporter’s laptop and get the same feed.  We also can remotely hook up to an expert or another interested party through the internet so they can see the scrolling testimony, too, saving the cost of travel for that person to be present in the room.