Court Reporting Schools
Court reporters have many different opportunities to pursue a career in court reporting. To become a court reporter, you don’t need any particular type of formal education. Many court reporters have limited education. However, the most successful court reporters all share an interest and great understanding of the English language. Court reporters have very good vocabularies and court reporters have an interest and understanding of grammer. It would not be a good idea to think about becoming a professional court reporter without a good understanding of the English language. Court reporters can go to court reporting school full time during the day. It would take approximately two years of court reporting school, which is 12 months a year with very little vacation time, to achieve the writing speeds necessary to become a court reporter. Night school is is usually a couple of hours a night for a couple of days a week. It could take as long as four years. How long it takes somebody to finish court reporting school and reach speeds necessary to work as a court reporter is largely a function of how much time one practices. Some people are fortunate enough to have a greater ability on the machine than others but everybody needs to put in hours of practice in order to reach speeds necessary to be able to work as a court reporter.