Court Reporter Career Center
Court reporting careers can go a number of directions, both in and out of the courtroom.
Court reporters have several options when it comes to specializing within the field of court reporting, as well as when it comes to other industries. This section will give you an idea of what career paths exist for court reporters and those with court reporter training. Explore the links below to see your employment options in court reporting.
Also be sure to check out court reporter salary figures, see training information, and read about court reporter certification.
Court Reporter Careers:
Court Reporting
Court reporters work in courtrooms during trials and other courtroom proceedings, where they convert the words spoken by attorneys, judges and witnesses into text for use by the courts.
CART Reporting
Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART), also known as real-time or live-event captioning, provides live, individual, in-person captioning services to the deaf and hearing-impaired...
Broadcast Captioning
Broadcast captioners provide captions for live television programming so deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers can easily read what is being said...
Webcasting
Webcasters create and transmit via the Internet captions for meetings, conferences, seminars and other organized gatherings...
Data Entry
Trained court reporters may use their skills in rapid data entry for businesses, since a trained stenotype operator can type at least twice as many words per minute as a skilled typist...
Certified Legal Video Specialist
A Legal Videographer produces legal video and is also known as Forensic Videographer, Court Videographer, or Video Court Reporter.
Judicial Transcription
Judicial or legal transcriptionists document speech dictated to them by legal professionals, editing for grammar and clarity.
Certified Manager of Reporting Services
One way to manage a court reporting firm or business is to obtain the CMRS certification.
Scopistry
Scopists assist judicial court reporters by proofreading and editing their transcripts into an easily-legible and comprehendible form.
