Electronic transcripts, or an e-tran as it is commonly referred to, is now a standard tool to receive copies of a court reporter’s documentation of a deposition or court proceeding. Transcripts are usually sent electronically as a file extension in a PTX format for viewing. A PTX Format is smaller and takes less time to [...]
The attorney arrived at 8:55 for a 9:00 a.m. deposition of a key witness in a highly technical case. Like opposing counsel, he was well-prepared; having spent hours in research and planning but also had a secret weapon lined up: a realtime transcript feed from the court reporter, with a live internet stream connection. Now, [...]
From Court Reporting to Trial Preparation (Software Tools Part 3) CT Summation iBlaze® has long been one of the standards of in-house document review. Less well known is the fact that this software (which originally launched under DOS) started as a way to capture (using built-in Realtime reporter support), analyze and annotate transcripts. This capability [...]
Analyzing Deposition Transcripts Using Software Tools Litigators think of LiveNote™ as a way to capture electronic transcripts from court reporters or deposition reporting in real time. Truly advanced practitioners may even know about slapping the Space Bar to Quick Mark noteworthy exchanges on the fly. But there is a lot more to LiveNote — and [...]
Electronic transcripts that can be captured from real-time court reporters are an accepted part of practice today. There is no need to wait for court transcription services to send over paper copies; all you need is the file on your computer, which you can examine at any time even before the final, signed version is [...]
Digital Management of Testimony in Court Reporter Transcripts Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (E-SIGN) was enacted June 30, 2000 to facilitate the use of electronic documents and signatures. As it relates to the law, see Digital Signature Guidelines Tutorial prepared by the American Bar Association abanet.org/scitech/ec/isc/dsg-tutorial.html. When applied to a court reporter [...]
Given today’s volume of electronic discovery, review software such as LexisNexis Concordance® is the only way to filter down to relevant material. Concordance® applies the same searching, tagging and annotation tools to electronic court reporting transcripts, allowing them to be searched, issue coded and digested along with the underlying documents. In an antitrust case involving [...]
