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Litigation

Sep. 23, 2011

Electronic evidence: To boldly go where no court reporter has gone before

Revised California Rule 2.1040 makes it easier to transcribe electronically recorded evidence. By John A. Taylor Jr. of Horvitz & Levy LLP


By John A. Taylor Jr.


Civil trials have increasingly become multimedia events. Courtrooms are packed with HDTV displays, computers, ELMO projectors, laser pointers, and sound equipment. Like James T. Kirk on the bridge of the Enterprise, court reporters are surrounded by this array of technical wizardry, enabling them to be masters of all they survey and to fulfill their duty of transcribing every word the jurors hear, whether those words fall from the lip...

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