| Generally, legal staffing companies are viewed as | | | | Less common than stenography, electronic recording |
| entities that specialize in supplying law firms with | | | | allows for a proceeding to be audio taped while the |
| attorneys and paralegals that undergo a thorough | | | | reporter monitors the sound quality of the recording |
| screening process to insure that they meet a firm's | | | | and makes special notations to identify speakers and |
| needs. But while this is true, many legal staffing | | | | non verbal reactions. Similar to electronic recording, |
| companies also double as court reporting agencies | | | | voice writing records the actual words that occur |
| and specialize in supplying courts and law firms with | | | | during a proceeding, the exception being that the |
| court reporters who specialize in conducting certain | | | | reporter repeats the language of a proceeding into a |
| types of depositions and court reporting. Although | | | | special voice mask that hides the sound of his or her |
| court reporters are generally perceived with less | | | | voice. As with stenography, both electronic and voice |
| specificity than attorneys and paralegals, they | | | | writing reporters produce written transcripts of |
| nonetheless meet a variety of specific reporting needs | | | | proceedings based on their recordings. |
| according to their training and experience. Therefore, | | | | A second criterion that divides court reporters is their |
| just as law firms and legal offices benefit from | | | | accuracy and clarity of reporting. While court reporting |
| consulting legal staffing companies for the recruitment | | | | is often perceived as a straight away affair, the fact |
| of attorneys and paralegals, they can also benefit | | | | that reporters are required to record the gestures and |
| from consulting staffing companies for the recruitment | | | | subjective reactions of courtroom participants means |
| of a court reporter. | | | | that extreme judgment must be used in the portrayal |
| The first criterion that divides court reporters in to | | | | of such reactions. Because attorneys review court |
| specific categories is their training. While all court | | | | transcripts to continually strengthen their position, the |
| reporters initially follow the same academic path, they | | | | inaccurate portrayal of an incredulous gesture or a |
| generally end up specializing in one of three types of | | | | pregnant pause could mean that an attorney misses |
| court reporting: stenography, electronic recording or | | | | out on the opportunity to revisit the subject matter that |
| voice writing. Stenography is the most common type | | | | caused such reactions. With this in mind, legal staffing |
| of court reporting and allows reporters to press | | | | companies that offer court reporter placement also |
| multiple buttons on a stenography machine | | | | screen court reporters on the more infinitesimal |
| simultaneously to record a series of letters that | | | | aspects of court reporting, as well as on their personal |
| indicate the speech, gestures and significant emotional | | | | views or convictions that could prejudice the accuracy |
| reactions that occur within a proceeding. As the | | | | and clarity of the more subjective aspects or court |
| proceeding progresses, stenographers translate | | | | reporting. |
| stenography code into word transcripts. | | | | |