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While an Official Court Reporter at the federal building here in Orlando, I had the pleasure of working with many law clerks under the different judges. One law clerk was Terri Day, clerking under Judge Fawsett.  She is now a long-time professor at Barry University’s School of Law  in Orlando.

All Good Reporters is excited to announce our remote CART providers will be closely working with counselors and staff at Devereux, www.Devereux.org, a leading nonprofit behavioral health organization.  By providing our CART services, we’ll be empowering their consumers to decide for themselves and better understand the information being provided to them. For those of you not familiar with CART […]

With so much going on the beginning of this New Year, as Richard Branson suggested, it helps to make a list to keep you on track.  Better yet, scheduling’s a breeze when you use our website’s online scheduling form.   Regardless, here’s our favorite list of suggestions: Please Remember to Send a copy of the […]

With the dawn of the New Year, we’ve seen quite a few resolutions and motivational words of wisdom.   One of our personal favorites is: “We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s […]

With Thanksgiving fast approaching this week, all of us here at All Good Reporters were reminiscing about our reporting careers and the things we’re thankful for: Not having to type on an IBM Selectric (fitted with a court reporter’s ratchet). So long to cutting and pasting. And let’s not leave out the pages of carbon […]

Both Chan Muller and Kirk Kirkconnell passed away within this past month from battling recurrent cancers.  I extend my sympathies to both their families.  I worked with both of them during my court reporting career here in Orlando.  I can honestly say there are not many lawyers out there today of their caliber.  Whenever I’d […]

I read with interest the latest news on the George Zimmerman case playing out in a Seminole County courtroom. Donald West, a local A+ criminal defense attorney, left the Federal Public Defender’s office to join Mark O’Mara’s defense team.    http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-05-31/news/os-george-zimmerman-new-lawyer-west-20120531_1_federal-public-defender-defense-lawyer-legal-team One of the first places I worked over three decades ago was the new […]

Court reporter ambassadors overseas Merilyn Sanchez, a long-time member of the National Court Reporter‘s Association, has put together a trip for court reporters as ambassadors to Brazil. http://www.ncra.org/News/newsdetail.cfm?ItemNumber=12792.  Multi-tasking at its best:  great learning experience, lots of fun, different environment and even better, earn CEU credits in the process!

What is Ethics First?   “Ethics First is a voluntary, no-cost public awareness program that seeks to positively educate court reporters, colleagues, firms, and in particular, their clients and consumers about how and why the impartiality and neutrality of the court reporter is of the utmost importance in maintaining an unbiased legal system. Through its grassroots […]

With the skills portion of NCRAs certification test date fast approaching, we did a little research into the history of the National Court Reporter Association’s certifications.