Title: “Shoptalk”

Ethics for Court Reporters: 5 hours

Presenter: Sue McDuffie, CSR

This program covers how to handle various situations that arise, such as:

• When to go on and off the record in depositions and court proceedings
• How to handle interrupting proceedings
• What to do when you can’t hear or understand
• Responding to clients’ challenges to transcripts
• Appropriate procedures when doing research
• Interacting with pro se parties and nonparties
• Billing clients and collecting money owed properly
• Punctuating difficult and poorly said sentences and passages (including an in-depth review of all punctuation marks)
• Handling verbatim issues (stutters, use of sic, accents, and so forth)
• Using quotation marks with quoted or possible quoted passages
• Depicting audiotaped and videotaped materials in transcripts
• Dealing with issues related to the use of translators
• Using parentheticals correctly and effectively
• Review of homonyms