Brown College of Court Reporting

Areas of Court Reporting:

• Official court reporter
  • Works in the courtroom
  • Handles trial cases
• Freelance court reporter
  • Handles pre-trial depositions
  • Flexible hours
• Captioning
  • Work on sports and other TV programming
• CART reporter
  • Work in classrooms
  • Aid the hearing impaired

Average Income:

Other Income Information

• Salary % of Court
• Reporters Earning
• Under $30,000 5.3%
• $30 - 39,999 14.7%
• $40 - 49,999 21.2%
• $50 - 59,999 20.7%
• $60 - 74,999 17.6%
• $75 - 99,999 13.2%
• $100,000 or more 7.5%

What are the court reporters earning at a large Southeastern reporting agency?

“Baby” Reporters

“Mid-Range” Reporter

“Heavy Hitters”

It’s Not Just Court Reporting Anymore!

Is Court Reporting a Career for You?

• Are you a person with one of the following qualities:
• Strong English skills?
• Dexterity?
• Interest in the law?
• A Sherlock Holmes type?

Other Career Options

• Students trained as court reporters also
• enter careers in:
• CART
• Captioning
• Information reporting
• And many more

CART (Communication Access Real-Time)

• Work with the deaf and hearing impaired students, captioning college and high school classes.
• More theaters are providing captioning of special performances for audiences that include people with hearing loss.
• The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 mandates equal access to the courtroom for all Americans. Hearing-impaired judges, attorneys, litigants and jurors can read the reporter's realtime text from a computer screen and participate fully in the judicial process.

Captioning

• Court reporters provide captioning of television programs for the deaf and hearing impaired. They caption news, emergency broadcasts, sporting events and other programming.

Information Reporting

• Information reporters are used by hospitals, insurance companies and other businesses that have large amounts of data to be entered in their computer systems.
• Many students work as information reporters, using their current skills, while pursuing their education and certification as a court reporter.

It’s a great profession!

• Court reporters enjoy a prestigious work environment, working closely with other court reporters, attorneys and judges.
• Court reporters are highly respected by their colleagues.
• Court reporters are always learning something new!

Misconceptions and Realities

• Misconception Voice recognition will produce a verbatim record at a savings to federal, state and county governments.
• Reality Not a chance. After listening to the theories of two well-known experts in the computer/voice recognition field on how such a system would work, the manpower involved, and the high degree of cooperation necessary of all users of the system, it is believed that in the "real world," the potential for failure of any voice recognition system would keep it out of most courtrooms.
• *taken From JCR On-Line

Misconception And Reailities 2

Classes at Brown College

Theory

• This class introduces the student to basic theory principles. Readback and basic transcription skills are introduced.
• At the completion of this course, students should be writing approximately 50 wpm with 97.5% accuracy.

Steno

• HRA *EU RPBLG
• T
• P RA * U B G DZ
• S
• T P H O U
• EU PB
• K W R O U R
• H A PB DZ

Translation

• Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
• the
• preponderance of the credible evidence
• is
• now
• in
• your
• hands
• .

Steno

• HRA *EU RPBLG
• T
• P RA * U B G DZ
• S
• T P H O U
• EU PB
• K W R O U R
• H A PB DZ

Translation

• Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
• the
• preponderance of the credible evidence
• is
• now
• in
• your
• hands
• .

Speedbuilding

• Speedbuilding classes take the student from 60 wpm to 225+ wpm. This portion of the program is proficiency based.

Information Reporting Program

• Theory
• Speedbuilding 60 wpm -- 140 wpm

Information Reporting Program Academic Classes

• English
• Court Reporting Usage and Punctuation
• Vocabulary Development
• Typing
• Legal Terminology
• Medical Terminology
• Court Reporting Technology

Court Reporting Program

• 140 -- 225 wpm Speedbuilding

Court Reporting Program *Prerequisite: Information Reporting Academic Classes

• Professional Development
• Proofreading
• Civil and Criminal Law
• Court Reporting Procedures
• Medical Terminology
• Anatomy/Physiology
• Court Reporting Technology
• Current Events
• Externship

Getting Started at Brown College

Admission to Brown College

• Interview with Admissions Representative
• Basic typing test of 25-30 wpm
• Basic English competency exam
• Approval of Admissions Committee
• Completed application & $50 application fee (non-refundable after 3 days)

Accreditation and Approval

• Approved by the National Court Reporters Association (NCRA)
  • Accredited by the Accrediting Commission of the Council on Occupational Education (COE)
  • Georgia Non-Public Post-Secondary Education Commission (GNPEC)

Brown College Placement History

• Historically since 1972 over
• 98.6%
• of Brown graduates have been placed in their profession of training.

Brown College of Court Reporting