Slate senior editor Andy Bowers explains the operation of machines used by court reporters to create detailed transcripts of court testimony. One more mystery now, not quite on the scale of Deep ...

If you’re a fan of courtroom dramas on TV, then you know that the law is a living structure, built case by case. Lawyers cite precedent (the more sensational, the better) to win controversial trials ...

The technology and computerization increasingly being installed in courtrooms across the country is changing the job of court reporters, and is, in some cases, replacing them. Overloaded and ...

Court stenographer Lena Villegas runs a continuous narrow strip of paper swiftly through her fingers, reading from it as easily as if it were newsprint. “Koupbl aou phaeu teupb w kwror tkrebgt,” reads ...

The name Stenograph has long been synonymous with legal transcription. Court and legal reporters, for example, are referred to as stenographers. The craft they practice is known as stenography. While ...

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A Florida man convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison will get a new trial, all thanks to a court stenographer who erased the entire transcript of his murder trial. Randy Chaviano, 26, of ...

Court stenographer Melissa Clagg, shown Wednesday in the Champaign County Courthouse in Urbana, is set to retire at the year’s end after a career of more than 30 years. Court Reporter Melissa Clagg ...

PHILADELPHIA, May 7 (UPI) -- Authorities in Philadelphia said they arrested a homeless man accused of stealing a pair of stenography machines from the City Council chambers. Police said Rica Hughes, ...

During her early days as a court reporter, Karyn Valeriano found that two years of training at the Community College of Allegheny County didn’t help her nerves when a couple of attorneys started ...