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News from Around the PlanetInternational Arbitrations in Japan
Recently Planet Depos-American Realtime’s on-the-ground U.S.-Certified court reporters provided realtime services for arbitrations before the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association (JCAA).
Planet Depos Celebrates National Court Reporting & Captioning Week
Planet Depos salutes all court reporters, past and present, around the globe. Here we spotlight three of our own, as well as a student soon to join the ranks of professional court reporters.
Successful Intellectual Property (IP) Depositions in Asia, Europe & the U.S.
Scheduling successful intellectual property (IP) depositions in Asia requires proper planning and the selection of an experienced court reporting vendor. When looking for the right vendor to handle your IP depositions in Asia, Europe and the U.S., there are several...
Improving Your Realtime Feed
Are you not seeing sufficient improvement in your realtime feed? The first step to getting that clean, crisp realtime feed you’re looking for is to critically review your writing. Are you continually dragging certain keys, causing unnecessary...
National Court Reporting & Captioning Week 2014
This year, as we prepare to celebrate our second annual National Court Reporting & Captioning Week, Harry Reid caught our attention with his address honoring both retiring Senate reporter, Joel Breitner, and the reporting profession
Remaining Upbeat after Reporting Sad Proceedings
As court reporters, we hear so many emotion-laden stories every day, that oftentimes we carry home some heavy emotional baggage. So the big question is, how can we unburden ourselves after being a witness to so much? Noted psychologist James Laird suggests that we...
Preventing Court Reporter Burnout
Burnout syndrome, while not yet clearly defined by the scientific community as a “disease,” can literally knock a person right out of their chosen profession. For court reporters who tend to work day and night trying to “catch up” on a regular basis, that concern is...
Tips to Keep Your Computer Bug-Free
For a court reporter, keeping your computer bug-free and in good health is almost as important as keeping your body healthy, so here are some things you can do to keep your computer in tip-top shape. Perform regular backups of your files, keeping a full and complete...
The Amazing New Text on Top Software Platform
For court reporters who haven’t yet discovered Text on Top (TOT), it is a software platform created in Europe that was initially marketed to captioning reporters, but is now making its way to the U.S.; and realtime reporters are only now discovering its versatility...
The Secrets of Thorough Proofreading
No proofreading software can detect all the grammar and punctuation errors that a good human proofreader can, at least not according to Dean Evans of Good Content Co., who ran a snippet of text through the most popular proofreading programs marketed today, and...