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Tact
A keen sense to know what to say and do in any given circumstance
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Confidentiality - three instances
- 1. Grand Jury investigations
- 2. Family Court proceedings
- 3. any court-ordered proceeding to be held confidentially.
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Realtime translation/ Closed Captioning
Immediate transcription of notes
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Computer-aided Transcription
CAT - computer transcribes the shorthand notes
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Assistive Reporting
Any type of reporting that serves as a help or aid to someone in communication. I.e. closed captioning for the hearing impaired.
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Official court reporters
Reporters who are employed by a court to report arraignments, sentencing procedures, parole hearings, jury trials and appeals before a magistrate, hearing officer or judge.
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Freelance reporters
Reporters used by lawyers to report arbitrations, negotiations, board hearings, or depositions.
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Depositions/ EBT's
Examinations before trial
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Closed Captioning
A service that is offered by television broadcasting stations.
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The Americans with disabilities act/ ADA
An act that addresses closed captioning
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CART/ Communication access realtime translation
Used in educational settings where students of all ages have various levels of hearing deficiencies. Also can be used in other instances like church settings.
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CART providers
those who offer the service of CART
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Litigation support services
Extra services that a reporter or agency will offer to their clients
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Examples of litigation support services
keyword indexing, condensed transcript, instant viewing, ASCII file
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Keyboard Indexing
The ability to have a running index appear at the beginning of a transcript that will list by page an line number the occurences of a particular word or phrase within an entire transcript
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Condensed transcript
a compressed transcript that is two to four smaller pages on one regular-sized piece of transcript paper
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ASCII file/ The American standard code for information interchange
can be read by a variety of software programs
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The Human Factor
Another name for a live court reporter. The human factor is responsible for producing a quick and accurate transcript
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Perserverance
persistance, tenacity, determination. all factors of a court reporter.
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Two broad categories of a court reporter
Writing and reading
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