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Litigators have a lot to manage as they work their way up to and through a trial.  The last thing an attorney needs to spend time on is chasing down evidence, documents and transcripts and then organizing them in such a way that he or she can properly prepare for the next steps in the process.  Thankfully, the world of technology has invaded the legal industry, and some Georgia court reporters have embraced that invasion to the point where their services incorporate all of the latest capabilities that can be offered to attorneys.

Elizabeth Gallo Court Reporting, LLC, is one of those Georgia court reporting firms.  Below you’ll find five ways that our litigation support capabilities make your life as a litigator much easier as you push towards a desired result:

1.  Mobility

Litigators who have been around for a while likely remember the days of dragging in box after box of evidence or information to every deposition, every hearing and every courtroom.  With the litigation support package from Elizabeth Gallo, LLC, those days are over.  All you need now is an electronic device that can connect to the Internet and you can access all of this information anywhere in the world.

2.  Video Synchronization

If you go through a deposition and you record it on video, you may dread the thought of having to sit and watch hours of questions before you find the exchange that you want.  Video synchronization allows you to highlight sections of the deposition, search for keywords and export software that helps you manage the case.

3.  Technology-Based Transcript Capabilities

A technology-based transcript allows you to search through an entire transcript with a word index from your device.  This will obviously save you hours of time.  Elizabeth Gallo Court Reporting, LLC, provides clients with this capability so that attorneys and staff members can get right to what they need instantly.

4.  The Power of PDF

A Portable Document Format file, or PDF, is a powerful tool for many reasons.  It will make a document look cleaner than other programs and it can protect the actual content on that document.  You can create a PDF transcript with our software instantly if you want to share a copy with someone.

5.  Link Your Exhibits

Transcripts will many times lack context without the exhibits that are presented in court with testimony.  Our technology allows you to link your exhibits directly into your transcripts so that someone reviewing that transcript will instantly know what is being referred to by a witness or an attorney.

Litigation support is a developing area of the court reporter world, and the Georgia court reporters at Elizabeth Gallo, LLC, make sure to provide our attorneys with every advantage available to help them work through their cases.  If you would like to learn more about how we can help you, all you need to do is contact us for prompt answers.

When a litigator needs to review the transcript of a deposition, hearing or trial in order to be prepared for a subsequent proceeding, that attorney has traditionally faced a difficult choice.  He or she can either spend hours upon hours poring over a paper transcript looking for useful answers or that attorney can ask staff such as a paralegal or a clerk to do the same.  The first option sucks up a lot of time that could be spent doing other things to prepare and the second option leaves open the possibility that something might be missed during the review.  No one looks forward to reviewing transcripts, but it is a necessary task for obvious reasons.

The Georgia court reporters at Elizabeth Gallo Court Reporting, LLC have been working with litigators for several years, and we listen when they tell us about what they dislike.  We are not techies in the sense that we can come up with some new tool that eliminates all of this pain, but we make sure that we pay close attention to those who can.  Based on a recent article that appeared on the American Bar Association Web site, it seems that there are tools that could help to put the drudgery of reviewing paper transcripts for hours in the past.

A link to that article can be found here, and our team at Elizabeth Gallo Court Reporting, LLC is excited to see some of these developments.  We are particularly interested in the ability to make use of tablet PDF readers.  Taking this step could completely change the way that litigators review depositions and other types of transcripts, and this capability even allows for direct links to exhibits and the word index.  With the search functionality already a part of many of these packages, time is saved and answers are quickly found.

Elizabeth Gallo Court Reporting, LLC is already jumping into the technology world in as many ways as possible.  We are engaging with a software company that will allow us to convert all of our transcripts to the PDF format.  Doing so will allow our transcripts to obtain compatibility with apps, readers and other functionality that will make the jobs of litigators easier by simply saving them a ton of time.  We’re going to keep taking these types of steps whenever possible.

We’ll keep you posted on some of the new things that are coming about that will make the entire legal process easier to manage, but this is one step that we are excited to take.