by Planet Depos | Sep 11, 2012 | Legal Videography
Videotaped deposition testimony can be used in many ways at trial, the most common being to impeach the witness as he/she testifies at trial. Impeaching a witness is much more effective when the contradictory statement(s) are played back to the jury and not read back...
by Planet Depos | Sep 6, 2012 | Court Reporting
By Lee Bursten, CRR, RMR All court reporting students must practice in order to get through reporting school. Passing successively faster speed tests requires hours of daily speed and accuracy practice. But what happens after they graduate and begin working? After...
by Planet Depos | Sep 4, 2012 | Legal Videography, Videoconferencing
A streaming video deposition is a videotaped deposition in which the audio, video, and text are being streamed via a secure, encrypted internet connection to locations that are remote to the actual deposition site. David Randolph Smith, Esquire, in his address to the...
by Planet Depos | Aug 29, 2012 | Legal Videography
When the testimony of a witness needs to be preserved for trial (a de bene esse deposition) or when it is important to document the demeanor of a witness, counsel often chooses to videotape the proceeding. When a deposition is videotaped, the court reporter and...
by Planet Depos | Aug 23, 2012 | Court Reporting
Once an attorney has used realtime, they quickly realize they don’t want to attend a deposition, arbitration or trial without it because they have everything right there, at their fingertips, easily searched, marked and retrieved. Without it, they feel as if they are...
