Category Archives: Humor

The most important tool for studying court reporting: Laughter

A real vermiform appendix

In one of my online court reporting groups, I received an email today about a post written by a journalist in San Diego on his blog. So I had a look and this is what I read: But I have a much more basic question: Why do we have court reporters at all? Aren’t audiotapes [...]

Required laughs

So I’ve been collecting some funny court reporting-related things for a while now, and I thought I now would be a good time to post them. Why now? I passed a test last week and that means I have one test left. One test. This should make me feel good, but I’m nervous, wondering if [...]

Volunteering at the NCRA convention

A litte more than a month ago, folks at our school asked if anyone would be interested in volunteering for the 2006 NCRA Annual Convention. I was interested in volunteering and signed up with some other students to volunteer all three days. About two weeks before the conference, all the students from my school who [...]

Mastering jargon

So far in my internship I’ve had an easy time. I’ve sat in on mostly car-accident depositions, which were as simple as pie for the court reporters I was there with. Some of the court reporters were 10-year veterans and others were in their first year of work. Still, none had any difficulties. Then during [...]

Court reporting quote

I can imagine this hanging above my desk. Or perhaps in my bag to take with me to depositions? Very cute.