Many court reporting agencies are offering nationwide court reporting services. What are the differences in the court reporters and the court reporting services being offered by court reporting firms which advertising nationwide services?
Ownership is a major difference among court reporting companies. There are still many court reporting companies owned by court reporters who may still be doing court reporting or have put down their machines in favor of running their businesses.
And then there are the big corporations who have been buying court reporting companies for many years now across the United States.
There are also some court reporting companies who have been bought by entrepeneurs who have seen an opportunity in the court reporting industry to be successful.
And then there is another type of ownership which I am unaware exists in other industries to the extent it exists in ours, former sales people of court reporting companies who amass a nice book of clients and go out on their own.
After more than 30 years of participating and observing our industry, I see that each type of ownership has its own unique management type and each also shares many similiar characteristics.
I don’t think many people give much thought to the differences in court reporting companies but we are as different as any other group of professionals, and one of the differences certainly is the type of ownership.