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New features and content will become available. Occasionally. As time and creativity permit. Because deadlines are for transcripts.

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Articles

Things to Remember — Care and Feeding of the Reporter

by Jason Meadors (with permission)

1. Numbers are tricky for the record. Please just trust us on this. If you say "twenty two ten," is that 2210? 22.10? 22, 10? 20,210? Dollars? Use exact numbers on the record, and take the time to pronounce them clearly. Numbers like 13 and 30, 15 and 50, can sound very similar in casual conversation.
2. We only report what we hear. If you hear something sotto voce, or whispered, or mumbled, and you want to see it on the record but you're not sure who else might have heard it, it's possible that the reporter did not. Please repeat it for the reporter.
3. Mechanics. When the parties at the deposition are talking over each other, whose words will be preserved? Reporters quite literally have about a tenth of a second to decide, which doesn't give us much time to read your mind and make the right guess, so there's no guarantee the choice made will be the one you want. And even when we sort it out and get it down, the transcript can become virtually unintelligible when reflecting multiple speakers talking at once.
4. Endurance. When people are talking, reporters are working. Others can talk longer than we can work. They often are not thinking when they're talking. Reporters, on the other hand, have to pay attention to every word. We can only concentrate intensely for so long. After a while mental fatigue settles in. In addition, reporters are not moving much, so physical fatigue will set in as well. A break every 90-minutes is greatly appreciated.

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Reading and Signing Reminder

At the conclusion of depositions, you will often hear the reporter say, "Reading and signing?" We do this as a courtesy. Rule 30(e) provides for reading and signing "if requested by the deponent or a party before completion of the deposition."

Ordinarily, we would not interject. The Colorado Bar Association Interprofessional Committee made it clear that attorneys would appreciate this prompting as a reminder to affirm whether reading and signing should take place as the Rules provide. Not every reporter is comfortable with this or may remember to prompt the attorneys.

Please remember that Rule 30 may well imply that reading and signing, when not affirmed before the completion of the deposition, can be considered be implicitly waived.