Here’s an excellent video on the history of typography.
Makes us kind of sad that due to court rules we’re still stuck with good ‘ol Courier font!

Social media in Texas is about to get a little less social, if House Bill 1989 becomes law.
If you’re embroiled in a legal proceeding, the next Tweet you receive may be something very messy landing upon your head, something you really don’t want!

The sometimes hotly contested debate over steno recording v. digital recording often comes down to one of speed v. accuracy.  Stenographers can create a transcript in nearly real-time based on what the stenographer heard, whereas a digital recording is transcribed only after leaving the courtroom but the record can be listened to as often as necessary [...]

For years, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has kept an unusual code of silence during hearings before the country’s highest court. While his colleagues question, comment and cajole from the bench, Justice Thomas has relished a self-imposed role as a passive observer, keeping his thoughts and opinions to, well, his opinions. Yet a recent, [...]

Technological advances in the courtroom can impact us in unusual ways.
Take for instance e-filing.  As courts make this the norm or even the required method of filing papers with the court, and as benches become routinely equipped with computers with access to these electronic dockets, many judges are moving away from hard copies of filings. [...]

There are really no winners in the case of an Alabama woman whose death can be directly tied to poor transcription quality standards.  Ultimately there was a lawsuit and a very large verdict, though the amount that will be ultimately collected remains unknown.  What we can be certain of is that Ms. Juno’s family and [...]

We’ve always believed that the eScribers advantage – what sets us apart – is the level of pride that we take in our work.  Everyone involved with eScribers – whether as a transcriber, an editor, a member of the operations team or beyond – everyone believes that our value added is in going that extra [...]

Please take a moment to visit the website for the President’s 2012 SAVE Award.  We, the public, have the opportunity to vote for one of these four ideas.
Even putting aside our bias – and though these are all great ideas – we endorse Mr. Szender’s suggestion:
A written transcript of Federal meetings or hearings is often [...]

We’ve often heard a judge referred to as the “trier of fact”.  But it’s rare they get called a “trier of patience”.  And yet that’s exactly what happened last week when Judge Strine, Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, went off on an 11-page tangent in a written decision.
Click here to see why [...]

Some costumes are elaborate and difficult to create — lots of makeup, glue and markers, and whatnot to create the perfect look that can trick people into believing you’re real.
Some costumes just require a temporary name change and a business card.
Check out this story of a man who dressed up as a bankruptcy lawyer and [...]