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News from Around the PlanetTrial Presentation Software that Works
Trying to determine which trial presentation software to purchase and utilize in the beginning to create and present hi-tech cases for judges, juries, mediators, and arbitrators can be a daunting task, because they all seem to offer similar capabilities. While some...
What Trial Presentation Consultants Can Do For You
Planet Depos’ professional, dynamic, highly experienced trial presentation consultants create impactful presentations that leave a lasting impression on the judge, jury, arbitration panel or medical review board that will be determining the outcome of your case. Rich...
What is a Trial Presentation Consultant?
Trial Presentation Consultants are members of Planet Depos’ highly trained and experienced technical team. They are skilled at working with law firms and their staff to develop powerful presentations for viewing by judges, juries, arbitrators, mediators, and medical...
The Benefits of 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...
Daily Practice for Working Court Reporters
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...
What is a Streaming Video Deposition?
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...
Videotaped Depositions, Edited Clips, Video-to-Text Synchronization & Trial Presentations
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...
How Can a Realtime Reporter Benefit You?
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...
What Is a Rough ASCII?
A rough ASCII, also known as an uncertified rough draft, generally refers to an “unofficial” unedited transcript that is provided by the court reporter shortly after the day’s proceedings. So how does it work? The court reporter is “writing” (stroking) verbatim...
How Digital Audio is Changing Court Reporting
Digital audio and audio-to-text synchronization technology is changing the courts and court reporting. While low-impact courts (courts with few transcript requests) are transitioning to digital audio, digital audio-to-text synchronization has become a lawyer and court...