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Achieving an appropriate degree of confidence can be tricky for clients called to testify in a deposition. Too little confidence can be crippling; too much, foolhardy. It falls to the litigators to find the balance when preparing a client to be deposed. No small feat.  The recent rise of remote depositions has added a new…

Most litigators in 2023 likely know at least two things about remote depositions. First, they’re on the rise, quickly becoming a viable alternative to in-person witness examination. Second, they’re different from taking testimony in person.  One significant difference between remote and in-person depositions involves how the court reporters recording them do their jobs. Capturing a…

Until a few years ago, online depositions happened on the outer margins of litigation practice. Most litigators preferred to take depositions in person. Occasionally, they’d take testimony by video conference when deposing minor witnesses or if logistical complications demanded it. But resorting to an online video platform for conducting a deposition was a last resort. …

Remote depositions require software to conduct, record, and transcribe each session. But not all court reporting software is created equal. And some lawyers still run significant practical and ethical risks by not using digital deposition solutions at all, opting instead to muddle through remote witness examinations by hosting them on generic video conferencing platforms.  Savvy…

Court reporting has undergone a transformation in the past decade. The combined effects of a stenographer shortage, the pandemic, and—perhaps most importantly—remote deposition technological innovations, have re-laid the foundations of the industry and created new possibilities for how lawyers conduct discovery. In 2023, despite labor market headwinds, court reporting looks poised to deliver on the…

When the pandemic banished everyone to their home offices, litigators turned to remote depositions to keep their cases moving. It wasn’t pretty at first. Technical glitches and logistical hurdles abounded. In those early days, you were lucky to cover half as much ground with a witness remotely as you could in person.  But in time,…

The text transcript has long been the evidentiary gold standard for recording a witness’s sworn testimony and proving it in court. Transcripts are as potent a piece of evidence today as they were one hundred years ago. And yet, the black-and-white certainty of a typewritten transcript also leaves something to be desired. It strips spoken…