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CRS is a full service certified court reporter and videographer firm serving the entire San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. We have grown up with Silicon Valley to provide the latest in legal deposition technologies as they emerge. CRS provides the latest advances in the field of court reporting and videography including streaming real-time reporting and video, secure web repository, video conferen

cing, exhibit linking, electronic transcripts & exhibits and text/video synchronization. One call will assure you have the very best local professionals in the field.

Zoom depo today 6/3 9:00-4:00 for CA CSR. Email linda@crscourtreporters.com or PM me your availability.

06/03/2025

Zoom depo today 6/3 9:00-4:00 for CA CSR. Email [email protected] or PM me your availability.

01/15/2025

Lions at work.

10/30/2024

BY POPULAR DEMAND, West Valley College's Court Reporting and Captioning Program is hosting another Information Session!
November 4, 2024
5:30-7:15 PM
https://wvm-edu.zoom.us/j/96012212293
Our enrollment has tripled since fall 2022, and classes have been filling up early since word got out that our program has no tuition. If you apply to the college during the fall semester and register as soon as you get your registration date from the college, you have a chance of getting in.
https://www.westvalley.edu/classes/
SPRING 2025 CLASSES
The spring schedule is now available, and registration will begin on November 4th.
https://www.westvalley.edu/classes/schedule/
NOTE: West Valley College courses are for California residents only.
For additional detailed information, including FAQs, applying and enrolling in our program, see West Valley's webpage:
https://www.westvalley.edu/schools/continuing-education/court-reporting.html

West Valley College offers many Court Reporting classes to satisfy graduation and transfer goals.

10/21/2024

West Valley College's Court Reporting and Captioning Program Information Session

• October 21, 2024

• 5:30-7:15 PM

• https://wvm-edu.zoom.us/j/96012212293

Department Chair Maggie Ortiz, instructor, Linda Elaine Lawson, and I will be present to answer questions.

SPRING 2025 CLASSES

The earliest most students can enroll for the spring 2025 semester should be in mid-November. The spring schedule should be published at the end of October or early November.

Our enrollment has tripled since fall 2022, and classes have been filling up early since word got out that our program has no tuition. If you apply to the college during the fall semester and register as soon as you get your registration date from the college, you have a chance of getting in.

https://www.westvalley.edu/classes/

NOTE: West Valley College courses are for California residents only.

For additional detailed information, including FAQs, applying and enrolling in our program, see West Valley's webpage:

https://www.westvalley.edu/schools/continuing-education/court-reporting.html

West Valley College offers many Court Reporting classes to satisfy graduation and transfer goals.

03/24/2024

How do we do what we do? Watch this.

https://fb.watch/r02glxKifM/?mibextid=cr9u03

02/03/2024

The best career you’ve never heard about.

12/16/2023

The best career you’ve never heard of.

Basic Training class kicks off on Tuesday, January 9 from 6:00 -8:00 pm, and is every Tuesday evening through February 13! 🗓️⏰ Sign up now, space is limited! https://ow.ly/cWBA50QjkGS

10/17/2023

Keeper of the record - with a little adlibbing.

09/30/2023

A human mind, a human ear, a human that cares about the record.

08/17/2023

We need help next week Tues-Thurs in person SF Tuesday and San Jose Wed-Thurs. Also Zoom depos Tues-Thurs. PM or call if you can help. Good clients, quick pay. 408.298.DEPO or 408.641.0277.

07/21/2023

Have you thought about being an important link in our legal system! Find out how!

Thinking about a new career? Join our upcoming FREE seminar about being a court reporter! This remote seminar will take place on July 30th, so don't miss out and RSVP today by emailing [email protected]!

06/21/2023

Ready for Basic Training? Court Reporting and Broadcast Captioning

Two years of school! No crushing student loan debt!

Lucrative. Flexible. In demand. Register today!

Getting Started – Basic Training NEW! Students enrolled in any stenographic reporting program may be eligible for our $1,000 Merit Awards. Registration forms and requirements can be found here. STENO: Try It Out (It’s Free!) Project Steno’s Basic Training course is a free hands-on intro-to-ste...

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Our Story

Founded in 1980 by Linda Pugliese, CRS has always been on the cutting edge of court reporting technology, offering their customers the latest in litigation support. We strive to be one step ahead to make your job easier.

CRS is an acronym for Computer Reporting Service, our legal name, that was very cutting edge back in 1980 when Computer Aided Transcription (CAT) was just getting started. In those days our computer cost $12,000, had no hard drive, and our operating system and program were on one 8-inch floppy disk and our data was on another 8-inch floppy disk.

The data was captured on a data cassette attached to our steno machine (which amazingly has a keyboard that has not changed very drastically since it was invented in the early 1900s). The data cassette contained every stroke that was written phonetically on our machine and at the end of the day we would put it in a reader for transferring to the computer. It would take ALL NIGHT for the transfer. Amazing!

After transfer to the computer, it was magically translated from shorthand into English according to the dictionary entries that we painstakingly entered when building our dictionary. Then came the fun part. Instead of typing from our shorthand notes, now all we needed to do was clean up punctuation and untranslates and mistranslates. Was it faster? I don’t know, but it was more fun.

Our printers were dot matrix printers that had paper with holes on the edges for feeding through, and at the end of a long day of printing, all those edges had to be burst by hand. I used to pay my children to do it for me. They loved it.

As computers got faster, with bigger hard drives, it got easier. The history and transition from these monster computers to the small compact ones we use now is incredible. But the fact is, the skill and knowledge of the court reporter who creates the data to be transformed is still the same.

The technology allowed us to create instant transcripts, also known as real-time, and now attorneys, judges, and audiences can see the spoken word instantly on their screen. This cannot be duplicated by AI or voice recognition software. Maybe in some distant future, but not now. Have you looked at your voice recognized email translations lately? Not something that will pass the high standards of the record being made for litigants, those accused of a crime, family court, or the need for a verbatim, accurate transcription for appeal purposes.

Do not be influenced by advertisements for “new” technology and promises of voice recognition and translation by a computer being better than a thinking human being with the skills necessary to discern accents, ask for clarification if the words are garbled or there is cross-talk. And if the audio is being transcribed by an uncertified human sitting at home in their pink bunny slippers, is that transcript with many “inaudibles” or “simultaneous cross-talk” really a better record than from a certified court reporter who is actually at the proceedings, stopping the parties when necessary for an accurate record?

We’ve been on the cutting edge for many years and this kind of technology is not a step into the future, it’s a step backwards.