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What is Legal Translation?

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The pen is mightier than the sword in a courtroom. Legal decisions can pivot on a single word or comma in a contract or transcription, and adding multiple languages to the mix multiplies the possibility of inadvertent...more

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How Court Reporters Can Help Law Firms Control Costs Without Sacrificing Accuracy

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Imagine a legal case where the official transcript is riddled with errors—witness statements are misquoted, key details are missing, and timelines are scrambled. Now, imagine an attorney building their entire case strategy on...more

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Realtime Depositions: Enhancing Legal Proceedings

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Nearly 150 years after Miles Bartholomew introduced the first shorthand machine, the various technologies and tools utilized to record court proceedings and legal matters continue evolving. Today, realtime deposition...more

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AI-Powered Court Reporting: Shaping the Legal Landscape

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the genie let out of the proverbial bottle, moving at a technological speed that makes it difficult to keep up with emerging developments. For court reporting, AI can decrease costs of...more

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Transcription for Lawyers: Why It’s Important

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What do music composers, biochemists, and lawyers have in common? All three professions rely on transcription—an accurate capture of either musical notes, DNA nucleotides, or spoken words. The classic definition of...more

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Keeping Deposition Transcripts Confidential in the Internet Age

Deposition transcripts, like other pretrial discovery materials, do not become public records until they’re filed with the court. Before they are filed with the court, they routinely dwell in obscurity, shielded from public...more

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Legal Transcription vs Court Reporting: What’s the Difference?

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A verbatim, accurate transcription is critical for depositions, trials, and other legal proceedings. The word choice of a single witness or attendee can affect a negotiation and settlement, trial strategy and outcome, witness...more

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Courts Want to See Just the Relevant Portions of Deposition Transcripts

In the federal system, deposition testimony often provides crucial evidentiary support for summary judgment motions— a key procedural device for narrowing contested issues that require trial or, in some cases, eliminating the...more

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Deposition Transcripts: The Importance of a Single Word or Punctuation Mark

“I shot the clerk?”  Or was it “I shot the clerk.” Accurate punctuation can affect the guilt or innocence of a litigant. Punctuation can also save lives: “Let’s eat, grandma,” or “Let’s eat grandma.”...more

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Searching Audio and Video Files: Are You Adequately Assessing Their Relevancy to Your Cases?

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The COVID-19 pandemic augmented our increasingly virtual world. As such, the plethora of data at our fingertips has changed. Business Insider reported that Zoom meeting participants rose from 10 million in December 2019 to...more

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eBook: Seven Keys to a Perfect Deposition Transcript

Conducting remote depositions during the COVID-19 pandemic required attorneys to litigate cases under unfamiliar circumstances as everyone coped with social distancing and other government health mandates fashioned in...more

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The Importance of Reviewing the Deposition Errata Sheet

For litigation attorneys, the wrap-up process at the close of a deposition is a familiar scenario: The taking attorney will state that he or she has no further questions, after the opposing attorneys have done the same. The...more

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