There are many directions a career in court reporting could take you, and not all of them are practiced in the courtroom.
Here are some popular career paths pursued by court reporters and those with stenographer training.
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.
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 captioners provide captions for live television programming so deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers can easily read what is being said...
Webcasters create and transmit via the Internet captions for meetings, conferences, seminars and other organized gatherings...
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...
A Legal Videographer produces legal video and is also known as Forensic Videographer, Court Videographer, or Video Court Reporter.
Judicial or legal transcriptionists document speech dictated to them by legal professionals, editing for grammar and clarity.
One way to manage a court reporting firm or business is to obtain the CMRS certification.
Scopists assist judicial court reporters by proofreading and editing their transcripts into an easily-legible and comprehendible form.
