Law Practice
Oct. 23, 2018
For the record: Notes from a California court reporter
Why, after four years of education and training (and after I also received a B.A. from UC Berkeley), passing my third test attempt, and 23 years of experience is the end of my profession as we know it in sight in California?
Susan Imperial
Susan has been an independent court reporter in the Bay Area for almost 23 years.
As most attorneys know, when everything is going smoothly in a deposition, neither the attorneys nor anyone else in the room hears from the court reporter. For obvious reasons, attorneys only know court reporters from a limited and transient perspective: When they see reporters at depositions and when they receive their transcripts. Court reporting is a mysterious, enigmatic profession that laypeople know nothing about.
Yet the time...
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