A year and six months have passed since I last wrote for this blog. That’s a long while. In that time I received some emails asking about updates, something new, et cetera, I’m going to answer your questions: Whatever happened to Binita? After September 2006 (see the previous post), I returned home the following December. [...]
September 16, 2006 – 9:31 am
On Tuesday, September 25, 2006, I had my first deposition in Brooklyn. I arrived early (too early, actually) and, although I was terribly nervous (What do I say to swear in the witness again?), things went smoothly and without incident. It was a short deposition, just 20 minutes, and I had returned home and scoped [...]
September 13, 2006 – 8:43 am
That’s it! I’ve finished. I’ve passed my final test. Done. Period. The end. Or is it just the beginning? I started studying court reporting at a place called Business Informatics in Long Island in 2005. I left that school, was off for a month, and then started studying at New York Career Institute. Eighteen months [...]
September 9, 2006 – 4:38 pm
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 [...]
September 6, 2006 – 5:41 pm
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 [...]