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News from Around the PlanetFormatting Your Filings: The Importance of Layout and Typography in Pleadings
By Mary Lide Take a look at your caption page. There’s more to it than meets the eye. When formatting your filings—the caption page especially—it can never hurt to think about the aesthetics. While court rules are strict about typography, you can still make your...
Going the Extra Mile(s)
Have you ever had one of those days when you just knew that things wouldn’t go as planned? You just knew when you woke up that morning that the universe wasn’t properly aligned? It was Tuesday, June 28th. Nothing special about the day for Mike Miller, a court...
Japan – Leader in Customer Service
By Neal Price After a recent trip to Osaka and Tokyo, Japan, I was struck by two things - Japan’s impeccable customer service and their public transportation systems. I had often heard about Japan’s amazing customer service - complete with bows to one another,...
Disproportionately Popular Jobs
By Julia Alicandri Business Insider recently posted a fascinating map that shows the most disproportionately popular job in every state. In New York, it’s fashion designers. Texas’ most disproportionately popular occupation is petroleum engineers. In Maryland, that...
Go ‘Realtime’ – Foreign Depositions
By Jodi Harmon, CRR, RMR Litigation involving foreign witnesses can be challenging. Paralegals will no doubt find that their cases will require the services of both deposition interpreters, also known as legal interpreters, and realtime court reporters who are up to...
Award issued by Permanent Court of Arbitration in South China Sea dispute
By Jade King A ruling in the long-running South China Sea dispute was released by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague on Tuesday and has immediately become global front-page news. Initiated by the Philippines against the People’s Republic of China in...
Choukokuji: The Tokyo Zendo Experience
By Tom Feissner Dogen Zenji (19 January 1200 – 22 September 1253) is widely considered to be the first patriarch of Zen Buddhism in Japan. The order that he founded, commonly referred to as the Soto Zen School, is one of the leading Buddhist denominations in Japan...
Confidential Transcript Portions
Excellence in court reporting begins with the process of scheduling and continues through delivery of the final transcripts. Paralegals and their attorneys are always busy, dealing with lots of little details and unending paperwork. Naturally, to assist their clients,...
Court Reporting: An Unfamiliar Industry
By Julia Alicandri The College of Court Reporting recently tweeted a comedic photo of a man with a huge smile, standing in front of a whiteboard with a senseless algorithm of letters and numbers on it, and the caption was “Trying to explain court reporting to pretty...
New Arbitrators, New Code of Ethics for the KCAB
Just recently the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB) announced both the appointment of new arbitrators and the adoption of a new Code of Ethics for Arbitrators in 2016. Both changes demonstrate the KCAB’s continued commitment to improving the arbitration...