Deposition & Arbitration Support Blog

Recording a deposition may seem straightforward, but producing a video record that legal teams can reliably use afterward requires more than putting a camera in the room. Audio and video must be captured clearly throughout the proceeding, the videographer must work alongside the court reporter without disrupting testimony, and the final recording may need to…

Most attorneys and paralegals booking a court reporter already know to ask about credentials. RPR, CRR, AAERT certification, these come up in nearly every vendor conversation. But credentials alone don’t tell you how well an agency will handle the proceeding. What separates a court reporting agency from another usually isn’t the credential list. It’s what happens before the reporter shows up, how availability gets confirmed, what the fee schedule covers, and…

Litigation teams have relied on rough drafts and realtime feeds for decades to keep a case moving before the certified transcript is finalized. AI has now added a new document to that same category: the AI deposition summary. Like a rough draft, it’s a fast, workable document that gets attorneys what they need immediately, not a substitute for the certified record. …

A deposition wraps at 4 p.m. The next day’s argument hinges on three lines of testimony from that afternoon. That is the moment a court reporting firm’s definition of “expedited” is tested against a real deadline, and it is worth settling the question well before then.    The term “expedited” can cover materially different turnaround times, from same-day delivery to production within…

The rate sheet said one number. The invoice said another. Between them sat an expedited-processing fee nobody had mentioned on the call, an exhibit-handling charge appearing as a line item for the first time, and a rush surcharge because the deposition ran an hour longer than scheduled. Nothing on that invoice was necessarily incorrect. It…