The Complete Court Reporter's Handbook (3rd Edition) [Paperback]

Mary H. Knapp (Author), Mc Cormick (Author), Robert W. McCormick (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 013571365X | ISBN-13: 978-0135713655 | Publication Date: October 26, 1998 | Edition: 3 Sub

This practical guide presents all aspects of court reporting across a wide range of court and legal procedures. Packed with forms, sample written knowledge tests, and review questions, this book provides an excellent source of information about how court reporters function in the real world. Serving as a hands-on OHow toO reference on different aspects of Court Reporting, this important resource covers various types of reporting assignments; how to administer oaths; how to report interrogatories, statements, and depositions; how to handle parentheticals, objections, exhibits, and interpreted proceedings; how to take and transcribe court cases, computer-aided transcription, word-processing, daily copy, testing, and video grand jury work. It also covers topics such as ethics and notary public duties. Finally, it provides practical advice to typical problems encountered in the field. With a reorganized presentation, the third edition of "Legal Assisting/Court Reporting" has been revised to incorporate changes in technology and demonstrate how these changes affect the role of the court reporter. Among these new technologies are: realtime writing, computer-aided transcription, instantaneous viewing of the transcript, immediate recall of all litigation documents, closed-captioning for the hearing-impaired, Braille copy for the visually-impaired, and instant multi-language translation. The book also discusses the use of court reporting skills in a variety of other professions including rapid data entry specialists, medial transcriptionists, classroom captioners, business meeting reporters, and others. An essential reference for every law professional and court reporter.

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From the Publisher

Using easy-to-understand language, this guide offers a host of court and legal procedures helping students effectively learn both the basic and the advanced concepts of every phase of court reporting. It's packed with general forms, sample written knowledge tests, and review questions, designed to give students on-the-job knowledge in an academic setting. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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This practical guide presents all aspects of court reporting across a wide range of court and legal procedures. Packed with forms, sample written knowledge tests, and review questions, this book provides an excellent source of information about how court reporters function in the real world. Serving as a hands-on ÒHow toÓ reference on different aspects of Court Reporting, this important resource covers various types of reporting assignments; how to administer oaths; how to report interrogatories, statements, and depositions; how to handle parentheticals, objections, exhibits, and interpreted proceedings; how to take and transcribe court cases, computer-aided transcription, word-processing, daily copy, testing, and video grand jury work. It also covers topics such as ethics and notary public duties. Finally, it provides practical advice to typical problems encountered in the field. With a reorganized presentation, the third edition of Legal Assisting/Court Reporting has been revised to incorporate changes in technology and demonstrate how these changes affect the role of the court reporter. Among these new technologies are: realtime writing, computer-aided transcription, instantaneous viewing of the transcript, immediate recall of all litigation documents, closed-captioning for the hearing-impaired, Braille copy for the visually-impaired, and instant multi-language translation. The book also discusses the use of court reporting skills in a variety of other professions including rapid data entry specialists, medial transcriptionists, classroom captioners, business meeting reporters, and others. An essential reference for every law professional and court reporter.

Product Details

• Paperback: 332 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 3 Sub edition (October 26, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 013571365X
• ISBN-13: 978-0135713655
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,156,144 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #21 in Books > Law > Procedures & Litigation > Court Records
  • #68 in Books > Law > Law Practice > Law Office Education

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25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for new scopists, September 14, 2000

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This review is from: The Complete Court Reporter's Handbook (3rd Edition) (Paperback)

This is a great book for new scopists to read. It gives you an overview of what court reporter's do. Learning about their jobs will help us, the scopists, do our job better. It is also a good book to get if you are thinking of becoming a court reporter. It goes over stipulations, parentheticals, motions, objections, etc. The part I liked best about this book is it gave alot of examples on preliminaries, title pages, appearance page, index page, transcripts.

I think this book makes a great collection for a court reporter or a scopists.