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Best practices for remote / video-conference depositions
During these challenging times, while being forced to comply with shelter-in-place orders and social distancing requirements, legal professionals are faced with the task of quickly developing and adopting new best practices for working from home. Most local and court-specific rules in federal and ...
CSI - Courtroom Sciences Inc
— April 2020 — 1811 views Court reporting COVID-19 Depositions Paralegals Webinars


Cyber security and attorney-client privilege concerns with remote/video depositions
Cybersecurity and privileged communications are two very different (although related) concerns, and CSI provides sound best-practice recommendations for law firms who use CSI for remote/video depositions to successfully address both concerns. When law firms schedule remote/video depositions, CSI h...
Jae Ellis - Courtroom Sciences, Inc.
— April 2020 — 1513 views Court reporting COVID-19 Depositions Paralegals


Coronavirus information from the State Bar of Texas
We wanted to share some Texas specific updates related to the COVID-19 pandemic, courtesy of the State Bar of Texas. * “Stay Home, Stay Safe” Orders and Travel Authorization for Lawyers * Many Texas cities and counties have issued “stay home, stay safe” orders in response to the pandemic.  To pro...
CSI - Courtroom Sciences Inc
— April 2020 — 1202 views Court reporting COVID-19 Depositions Paralegals


Conducting depositions remotely
*UPDATE:* TX Supreme Court announces emergency order allowing anyone involved in a hearing, deposition, or other proceeding of any kind-including but not limited to a party, attorney, witness, or court reporter, but not including a juror - to participate remotely, such as by teleconferencing, vide...
Julie Villafuerte - CSI Global Deposition Services
— March 2020 — 2150 views COVID-19 Depositions Paralegals


How CSI is addressing the court reporter shortage
* A court reporter crisis * The deposition is about to begin, and you realize your court reporter isn’t there. You panic. Then you recall you did schedule a court reporter with a large national court reporting agency.  You check your email and see the agency emailed you late last night to let you ...
Julie Villafuerte - CSI Global Deposition Services
— January 2020 — 1467 views Court reporting Depositions Paralegals


Leveraging technology to improve your deposition experience
As interest in using desktop videoconferencing to conduct  depositions [1]  has increased, there are often several questions that are asked by attorneys, such as how to go off the record (you can easily mute your line and have a productive discussion with your co-counsel.)  Here are some of the ot...
Julie Villafuerte - CSI Global Deposition Services
— December 2019 — 1982 views Court reporting Depositions Paralegals


Paralegals helping paralegals with records and depositions
What can you do when everything is urgent and the demands on your time don’t allow you to produce everything you need to get done? There is an option to work more efficiently and get more done in less time: outsource to someone who gets it. Most days it’s a challenge just to keep up. And you don’t...
CSI - Courtroom Sciences Inc
— October 2019 — 2608 views Court reporting Depositions Paralegals Records Retrieval