If you have a probate job and are looking for more probate research, have you ever thought about hitting the court records? Court reporters are in desperate need of a good proofreading service for their deposition and trial transcription. And there are tons of court reporters in sue-happy America. If your testing department already brings in reporters for court clients, here are testing tips on how to dramatically improve your product.
These evidence tips allow you to do evidence on the court reporter’s transcripts on the computer screen. In fact, if you try hardcopy, you’re consuming a ton of paper and ink, not to mention time with the printing process; Some court reporter transcripts can be up to 300 pages.
Money ever count all that paper and ink spend? When you factor this into your pay-per-page, this problem becomes unpleasantly clear.
Once you leave the hardcopy test, your seat position is limited. When I’m doing a test of the screen, I can lean back and my arms and hands around anywhere. This is better ergonomically.
When you try a hardcopy, the languishing system is reduced. When we test the screen, and the proper name doesn’t look right, and I know that name has arrived elsewhere in the transcript, I request that I report it at the end. Flag something that doesn’t seem right. Use any symbol for the whip, then find the perfect proof in that symbol. I’m not sure what a quick and efficient way to check things.
This cannot be done if there is a deposition of hardcopy evidence. Several errors will be detected from reading the hardcopy. Sez quem? If the proof is on the screen, think how quickly and efficiently the proofreader can rewrite every time he needs to refer to something that popped up on maybe eight, 15, 22 or 70 pages ago.
Of course, on screen, the spell checker can only pick spelling errors, not steno errors. Next, you will find the following common errors that are transposed words:
you would
if you do
you did
I have you
you
what to do
I ask you
while you were
to you
FIND will eliminate the need to carefully read words with similarly-phrased proof, saving time. The tester can easily be mistaken for “Aren’t you” if he’s asleep, but he’ll find his care.
Find “whose” and “whom” because they often transcribe these incorrectly.
If the attorney is female, find “Mr.” before her last name! It is surprising how common it is for a court reporter to insert “Sir”. before the name of the female patron.
You can find in “however” and “however” as well, because often, court reporters would transcribe these things incorrectly.
