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How Do I Schedule a Videoconference? Seven Helpful Tips Behold, the Picturephone! Developed in the 1960s, AT&T's Picturephone was like something straight out of The Jetsons and was poised to lead the marketplace into a future filled with [...]

Casamo & Associates Sees Creating Your Transcripts as a Labor of Love When most people hear the term “court reporter,” they probably picture a well-dressed individual typing at lightning speed during a stressful trial. As far as court [...]

Why We Care So Deeply About Transcript Accuracy and Cleanliness You caught us—we love creating gorgeous transcripts. From format to grammar, we respect our craft and work hard to ensure that your transcripts benefit from our keen eye for [...]

Should You or Your Client Order an Extra Transcript? As the case you’ve worked on for months comes to a close, you begin to tie up your lose ends. You ensure that your client is prepared to take on the next chapter in her life post-proceeding, [...]

Attorneys, Here's How to Train Your Brain Being hungry or navigating a blood sugar drop is not a recipe for success in any environment, much less in a courtroom or a deposition, and the fact is that attorneys do not pay nearly enough attention [...]

What Your Court Reporter Hears When You Say “I Need My Transcripts as Soon as Possible” “I need this ASAP.” As soon as possible—what does this really mean? In your daily life, it probably is closer to “as soon as it’s convenient.” Among [...]

From Rough Draft to Final Masterpiece, Your Transcript Evolves in Form and Meaning Let’s face it: as friendly as the court reporters at Casamo & Associates are, attorneys don’t call on us just for our scintillating conversation skills. [...]

Help Us Help You: When to Check in With Your Court Reporter During a Deposition At Casamo & Associates, we pride ourselves on our excellent team. We know that the court reporters we send to attorneys and courts throughout the Virginia, [...]

HIPAA Regulations Should Influence Your Choice of Court Reporting Service As an attorney who regularly represents clients in the medical or insurance industries, you know the importance of HIPAA—the federal Health Insurance Portability and [...]

Real-World Experience in a Learning Environment: Making Mock Trials More “Real” for Students by Including Court Reporters The court reporters at Casamo & Associates have years of real-world experience working in court, on depositions, on [...]

Casamo & Associates Provides Arbitration and Mediation Court Reporting Services In the legal world, time is money. When individuals or businesses are involved in legal troubles, it behooves them to resolve the situation as quickly as [...]

BBB Is Best: Why the Better Business Bureau Accreditation Matters When Hiring a Court Reporting Service Most people have heard of the Better Business Bureau, but how many know what this organization truly does for consumers? If people know [...]

We Took the Pledge: A Look at NCRA’s Ethics First Program If you haven’t hired a court reporting service before, you are probably wondering why we’re on our soapbox about business ethics. After all, we just show up, write down everything that [...]

We’re Ready When You Are: Call Casamo & Associates When Time Is of the Essence Most attorneys plan their days down to the minute, trying to maximize their efficiency and performance for their clients and their firm. Of course, most [...]

A Promise to Our Attorney Partners Horror Stories From Our Friends in the Law Want to hear a good joke about lawyers? No? We don’t either. We have many friends in the legal business; most are advocates, and a few are on the bench. And [...]

You Can Help Your Next Video Deposition Launch Smoothly…and Land Successfully The ability to complement the court reporter’s text of a deposition with a video has been a positive boon for attorneys. This is the video age. Jurors are used to [...]

Many attorneys are wary of investing in high-tech recording equipment to create video depositions. While a recorded deposition may be beneficial to some attorneys for one client per year, others rely on video testimony for each and every case. [...]

Court Reporter, Court Stenographer: Our Roles by Any Other Name Would Sound as Sweet When you think of court reporting, you would probably picture it attracting professionals that are the strong, silent type (Get it? “Type”? Humor isn’t always [...]

Why Your Deposition Reporter May Refuse to Let You Go “Off the Record” Consider this scenario: You’re an attorney who is conducting depositions into a complicated abuse of discretion case. The opposing counsel and his client will be present, [...]

Help for Attorneys That Hate to Fly   Let’s Face it, Flying Scares People I recently flew from D.C. to Los Angeles and was seated next to a woman who appeared to grow increasingly nervous as the plane readied for takeoff. As the [...]