What Does a Court Reporter Do?

A court reporter is an individual who works on the stenotype machine for capturing exactly everything that is spoken throughout a courtroom proceeding and then delivers the transcripts of the Proceedings. The job of a court reporter is to make sure that everyone's claims are preserved throughout a legal process whether it would be public consultations, hearing boards, in courts, or legislative meetings and commissions.

Most of the court reporters usually work outside the legal arena for providing the real/time captioning aids to a show screening during sporting performances, political talks, live fun games, conferences, and appointments. A court reporter is responsible for the recording and transcribing oral or written communication during a judicial process into the judicial form.

They perform the entire job by using stenography or voice reporting tools to generate word of word documentation of eyewitness statement high profile criminal cases, appointments, hearings, pre-trial statements, agreements, and arbitration session The Lawyers and judges often rely on the court reports for verifying testimony therefore accurate transcriptions are very important for legal recording and documentation.

Different types of court reporters are specifically skilled for proving the instant transcripts while the legal proceeding is taking place and this instant transcription is helpful for all those people who are deaf or hearing impaired. Court reporters can work in a different type of places like in court or legislatures for local or state governments Freelancer are doing their services for all the work outside the courtroom and for all the documentation that require official legal transcripts. Television and Producer also hire court reporters to achieve real-time closed captioning for the deaf and hearing impaired. All those individuals working in broadcast captioning can also work out of the central office or at home.