From the President

I hope you are planning to attend the NCRA Midyear Conference in San Francisco next week. It will be an opportunity “to be ahead of the curve with regard to technology, professional development, and business acumen,” which is how NCRA has tailored the Conference to benefit its attendees this year.

We constantly look for ways to expand our spectrum of services and technology skills, as well as seek out new audiences and new ways to market  court reporting. For these reasons, our goal is to support and encourage you as best we can in these areas.

This month, I ask that you take the time to fill out this three-question survey giving your perspectives, which will help us together serve our clients better. Also, completing the survey will make you eligible to be one of four winners of a $25 giftcertificates.com gift card.

As always, I invite you to send us any articles or tips you may have regarding reporting so we can share them in future issues.

Best regards,

Sheila Atkinson-Baker

The Heroes of Last-Minute Depositions

By Barbara Lynch, 

Staff Writer

My first approach to writing this article was to open with a scenario that litigation professionals could relate to with regard to scheduling last-minute depositions: the stress it can cause with the high chance of something not going right.

But I didn’t want to insult anyone’s intelligence by pointing out something that we are all too familiar with:  Litigation professionals know firsthand how deposition planning can be unpredictable due to multiple parties’ calendars needing to be aligned, along with picking a convenient location for everyone involved.

It can get very cumbersome. The task of setting up depositions oneself, or even communicating the details to support staff, can be just a small fraction of the workload, so that when it becomes complicated and time consuming, it causes other areas of the workload to suffer. Read full article »