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Realtime Reporting News
Rochester-Based Realtime Reporting Service Offers Attorneys The Latest In Courtroom Technology
Source: Daily Record (Rochester, NY)
Publication Date: 08/10/2006
COPYRIGHT 2006 Dolan Media Newswires
Byline: Tara E. Buck
With more than 30 years' experience as a court reporter, Jo-Anne Galloway has seen the job change dramatically with each addition of new technology. Galloway , in fact, started an innovative business, Realtime Reporting Service, Inc., to put the latest in court reporting technology to use for attorneys conducting high level depositions, and in courtrooms that can accommodate it. Although she retired last fall after working as a reporter within the New York State Supreme Court, Galloway wasn't ready to put her skills on a shelf, she said Tuesday. "With what the profession can now do for the bar and the bench in terms of the advanced services reporters can provide, I just want to remain a part of that," Galloway said. "I think I still have a lot to offer. I can still do something and make a difference." Before leaving the Supreme Court, Galloway managed the "Courtroom of the Future" program, training judges and staff to use the new equipment, but also the attorneys on the available software through continuing legal education classes with the Monroe County Bar Association. "Realtime software is used fairly regularly in other large metropolitan areas, but not so much in Rochester ," she explained. The technology allows attorneys who use the software to get "real time" transcripts of the proceedings, freeing them to pay closer attention to witnesses instead of taking their own manual notes. Attorneys could, for instance, also send their paralegal a portion of the realtime transcript while the court is in session, obtain appropriate case citations, and use the information to back up their argument in moments, rather than waiting for the following days' sessions, Galloway said. While not every courtroom and every court reporter has the technology, it is emerging, and gaining momentum.
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* Electronic binders for managing multiple transcripts and exhibits. Our evidence management solution provides the ideal tools for transcript intensive cases within a user-friendly interface
* Transcript searching, issue coding, annotating, digesting, reporting, and exhibit linking are standard functions within the high-performance software
DEMONSTRATED CAPABILITY
We have assisted the New York State Supreme Court in creating and implementing the "Courtroom of the Future" in Monroe County (New York). We designed and implemented the document presentation system using state of the art equipment, and enabling the court reporter to present realtime translation to attorneys and judges. In addition, we trained attorneys through the Monroe County Bar Assoc. to become proficient in the courtroom technology.
Building a case is often about finding links... connecting facts and statements to prove a point or disprove it. To do that, you must depend on the record. In today's fast-paced world, you need a record that is not just timely, accurate and complete, but also searchable, accessible online, available in realtime reporting, and able to capture and convey not just every word, but every nuance.
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