Top Ten Reasons to Use a Court Reporter
The NCRA has an article in the June 2008 issue of JCR that talks about the top 10 reasons to use a court reporter. It is written by Nate Smith and Laura Dennis and is reproduced with permission below. In future posts, we will discuss each of these. Now, without further delay…
- Transcript Production
- Redaction
- Mobility
- Human Intervention
- Accurate NOT Adequate
- Realtime
- ADA Compliance
- Quick Turn Around [of transcripts]
- Certified Court Reporter
- Customer Service
While these top ten were written with ER (electronic recording) in mind, I think they also fall perfectly into the reasons why a certified reporter is essential for quality transcripts — but now I’m getting ahead of myself. What other key reasons do you see for using a court reporter?

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