Court Reporters
Court Reporters have the opportunity to work on many different types of depositions. The simplest type of deposition would be those that are called slip and falls. These normally involved an accident and involve an individual suing somebody for injuries incurred during a slip and fall type of accident. Normally, the defendant, person/company, being sued has insurance for this type of lawsuit. The entity being sued is defended by an insurance company lawyer. These cases are usually not very complicated, do not require sophisticated court reporter skills, such as realtime. Another type of deposition which is defended by insurance company lawyers would be classified as medical malpractice. This is a lawsuit where an individual or group of individuals is suing a medical professional/hospital for what the plaintiff is claiming is malpractice which resulted in injuries. Many court reporters like doing malpractice work and these court reporters normally have a very large vocabulary involving medical and drug terms. Court reporters who like medical malpractice will seek out court reporting firms who have insurance companies for clients who defend this type of lawsuit. When a court reporter is investigating which court reporting agency to work for, it is very important that the court reporter inquire of the court reporting firm what their client base consists of and what type of clients the court reporting agency has. Then the court reporter will have a better understanding of the type of court reporting work they will be working on.