Scoping is more editing of a rough draft. Some reporters - will scope their own work.

Posted: Mar 15th, 2022 - 3:01 pm In Reply to: More power to you doing that legal stuff. I wondered - sm

The idea is the more they use scopists, then they are free to accept more jobs and everyone earns more money. COVID added a level of poorer sound quality as an alternative to writing depositions in person. Enter Zoom. This will probably be used more because everyone has adapted to it. Of course, when everyone wears a mask that makes matters worse. It doesn't help that my hearing is progressively tanking on the right side, but still...

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I just have to say Court Reporters suck! - sm (Views: 1237, 2022-03-15, 7:43 am)
- What happened? I also scope. Mine is a bit - frustrated with me because (Views: 715, 2022-03-15, 1:01 pm)
  - Nothing out of the ordinary. - sm (Views: 780, 2022-03-15, 1:56 pm)
    - More power to you doing that legal stuff. I wondered - sm (Views: 513, 2022-03-15, 2:52 pm)
      - Scoping is more editing of a rough draft. Some reporters - will scope their own work.
        I don't do scoping. It's strictly typing from the recording - sm (Views: 593, 2022-03-15, 4:12 pm)
        Oh. What happens if she is asked to read back since - she is not trying to write the (Views: 441, 2022-03-15, 4:20 pm)
        Usually they flounder and get part of what they heard - sm (Views: 462, 2022-03-15, 4:48 pm)
        She was busted and will not be requested by that - lawyer again. I enjoy (Views: 443, 2022-03-15, 7:21 pm)
- It's ironic how much a company wants you to know - sm (Views: 448, 2022-03-15, 8:45 pm)
  - I attended court reporting school in California and - attempted the Boards which (Views: 665, 2022-03-15, 8:54 pm)
    - Yeah. It's too bad they don't use what they had to, to pass - a test, sm (Views: 684, 2022-03-15, 9:06 pm)
      - Here in my state, the Boards is Q and A at 225 wpm. - I know of mask writers, but (Views: 575, 2022-03-15, 9:17 pm)
        Yeah. That's what the whole complaint is about! They have a typist - who will, nm (Views: 418, 2022-03-15, 9:22 pm)
        That would take more time than simply scoping it. - Are you billing per page? (Views: 466, 2022-03-15, 9:32 pm)
  - kind of offensive to say a lot are like that - not my experience (Views: 476, 2022-03-15, 10:43 pm)
    - I had one of those training and they talked in the background - sm (Views: 441, 2022-03-16, 9:22 am)
- Yeah. A 13 word sentence and I get one word typed by the court reporter. - BMS, sm (Views: 553, 2022-03-17, 2:34 pm)
- “Court reporters suck” - Jodi (Views: 479, 2022-03-24, 10:28 am)
  - I agree with you 100%. I do legal scoping for a company - that had been slammed on here, and I make (Views: 573, 2022-03-25, 8:01 pm)