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Chicago’s Full Service Court Reporting Company, Since 1957.
Court Reporting Services

Court Reporting Services

We have over 50 years of experience reporting proceedings in the Chicago area.  We are a full-service court reporting agency and our court reporters average 25 years of court reporting experience. 
  • Depositions
  • Trials
  • Hearings
  • Arbitrations
  • Conventions
  • Technical symposia
  • Board of Directors meetings
  • Municipal public hearings

Complimentary Conference Rooms

Complimentary conference facilities

Enjoy the complimentary use of one of our conference facilities:

  • Downtown Chicago (Cook County)
  • Lake in the Hills (McHenry County)
  • Grayslake (Lake County)

Or let us arrange for the use of another conference facility anywhere else in the greater Chicago area. 

Transcripts

Each transcript is bound with a clear plastic cover and every transcript order comes with a complimentary condensed version with its own word index.
  • Full-size
  • Condensed (up to 16 pages per sheet)
  • Time-stamping*
*The transcript may be time-stamped with actual times printed next to each line of the hard-copy transcript.

Electronic Delivery

E-mail

We can e-mail your transcript and/or exhibits instantly in the format of your choice:

  • PDF (Adobe Acrobat)
  • E-transcript*
  • Microsoft Word for Windows
  • ASCII (.TXT)
  • Summation
  • WordPerfect
  • html (for Internet publication)

*E-transcript is an electronic transcript file with a self-contained program which is searchable and interactively linked with a word index. The E-Transcript Viewer is free to download at www.reallegal.com. 

Click on the filename in Windows Explorer, and E-transcript opens. Simply click on a page and line reference in the index. Copy and paste actual transcript testimony into a brief or deposition summary in any word-processing format. You can even use it to print additional full-size or condensed transcripts for your expert's review, up to 16 pages per sheet.

Because E-transcript is encrypted, password and virus-protected, it can be securely e-mailed to you as soon as the transcript is completed. For more information, please visit www.reallegal.com.

Realtime

Our Certified Realtime Reporters are certified by the National Court Reporters Association.  When your laptop is connected to the court reporter's computer, you can mark, search, issue-code and annotate testimony as it is spoken.

Realtime Over the Internet

A cost-effective alternative to Realtime, Skype can allow an attorney, expert, or paralegal access to a deposition from a remote location. 

Rough ASCII

Get an uncertified rough-draft ASCII disk immediately following the close of proceedings to prepare for cross-examination, etc.

CD-ROM

Uncomfortable with electronic delivery?  Transcripts and scanned exhibits are always available on a compact disk.

Hard-Copy Transcripts

Our transcripts are delivered locally by bonded messenger or shipped via FedEx and tracked online. We ship in heavy cardboard boxes so your transcript always arrives in perfect condition for filing.

Choose from a variety of delivery options to meet your needs:

  • Same-day delivery
  • Next-day delivery
  • Expedited delivery
  • Regular delivery

Video Depositions, Videoconferencing & Teleconferencing

Our Certified Legal Video Specialists are certified by the National Court Reporters Association:

  • Recording (Digital VHS, SuperVHS or DVD)
  • Editing
  • In-court playback
  • Video/text synchronization on CD ROM or DVD

 

Certified Language Interpreters

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