National Court Reporters Association

www.ncraonline.org

Primary Contact Information

BJ Shorak
NCRF Deputy Executive Director
8224 Old Courthouse Road
Vienna, VA 22182

Phone: 703-556-6272, ext. 126
Fax: 703-556-6291
E-mail: BJSHORAK@ncrahq.org

Secondary Contact Information

BJ Shorak
Deputy Executive Director, NCRF

Vienna, VA 22182

Phone: 703-556-6272, ext. 126
Fax: 703/556-6291
E-mail: bjshorak@ncrahq.org

Company Information

Abstract:

NCRA is a 22,000-member nonprofit organization representing the judicial reporting and captioning professions. Members include official court reporters, deposition reporters, broadcast captioners, providers of realtime communication access services for deaf and hard-of-hearing people, legal videographers, and others who capture and convert the spoken word into information bases and readable formats.

Description:

The professional, certified court reporter has evolved with the technology of the modern court room and remains the perfect match of the best technology and highly skilled, highly trained human judgment applied to the task of professionally capturing, managing and preserving the courts’ records.

In the computer-integrated courtroom, the realtime, stenographic reporter provides an immediate computerized text record of the proceeding, which can be reviewed, researched, corrected, telecommunicated “live” as the testimony is proceeding, and stored on CD-ROM or other computer media, integrated with a videotape or simply printed out in a conventional or compressed format transcript for later review. Judges and attorneys can search for and retrieve testimony given minutes, hours, days or weeks earlier, without leaving the courtroom, through realtime, which connects the reporter’s transcript to litigation support systems. Court clerks can access the case’s database from the courtroom itself and input critical information in the courts case management system.

Reporters have become information managers, moving data to judges, court administrators and attorneys as they need it, before, during and after a case. The computerized, digitized record, provided by a realtime court reporter, becomes an active ingredient in a speedy and efficient judicial system.

NCRA certifications and certificate programs ensure the highest level of competence and continuing education, and in a range of specialities and applications, including judicial realtime, interpretive services for the deaf and hard of hearing CART, realtime systems troubleshooting, and trial presentation technology administration.