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NVRA Court Reporting
NVRA - Court Reporting Terminology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Antitrust laws | federal/state statutes to protect trade and commerce from unlawful restrains, prior discriminations, price fixing, and monopolies |
| bench conference | Conversation held by attorneys with the judge about of the hearing of the jury, may also be used as a sidebar. |
| Certificate page | The last page to appear with the transcript, dated and signed by the court reporter who took the matter, attesting that the transcript is true and accurate. |
| Confidentiality | professional responsibility of reporter to not disclose testimony to others; confidentiality extends to Scopists, transcribers, and office staff |
| Elements of transcript | title, index, stimulations, body, exhibits, certificate |
| errata page | a page separate from the transcript upon which a deponent is permitted to correct any errors here or she claims are present in the transcript |
| Exhibit | material items of physical evidence introduced by attorneys to corroborate and confirm oral testimony or to introduce new evidence, which are marked for identification so they can be discussed. |
| Federal Rule 30 | A portion of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure which defines matters pertinent to the taking of depositions; many states pattern rules pertaining to depositions after this rule. |
| Impartiality | professional responsibility of reporter to be fair and unbiased to each participant in a proceeding to be alert to and disclose any potential conflict of interest |
| Litigation support services | extra services and individual reporter or agency offers clients, including instant viewing, ASCII disk, Keyword indexing, condensed transcript, and print options |
| oath | A form of attestation by which a person calls upon his God to witness truth about his testimony, called affirmation when all reference to God is omitted; also referring to as swearing the witness |
| Off the record | the discussion held by attorneys which is not reported during a deposition; requires the agreement of all attorneys present. |
| Parenthetical notation | an expression or statement added to a transcript either reporter to explain nonverbal situations or movements which occurred during the preceding |
| protective order | an order issued by a court to permit one party to temporarily hold back certain documents or information, or to protect a person from harassment or service of process. |
| Protective order may also be used when... | Interrogatories or requests for production are oppressive or burdensome |
| Readback (noun); read back (verb) | Reporter may be requested to read back portions of testimony following an objection, question needs to be rephrased, or following a brief recess of the proceedings |
| reporter's worksheet | the preprinted form that is built in the time of the proceeding or from the reporter status which includes date, time, location , appearances, exhibits, and witnesses , billing information , or contact |
| style of the deposition | the title or style of the case includes the name of the parties, the venue of the matter, the case number, may also be called to the caption or the heading. |
| Voir dire | examination by attorneys of prospective jurors with regard to qualifications, lack of prejudice, general knowledge and understanding; at depositions or trial examination by attorneys of an expert witness with regard to the qualifications as an expert |
| witness setup | The proper transcription of the name of a witness as it appears within the transcript, referring to the information that appears between the time a witness is called when he or she begins testimony. |
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