ASTC Press Release

The Massachusetts Trial Courts have replaced human court reporters with digital audio recording systems. Ian McWilliams of New England Trial Services, a 20-year courtroom veteran, shares his knowledge and experience working with some of the nation’s best freelance stenographers in the article It Really is Your Record Now, first published in the Journal of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys. Ian lists all of the things stenographers do in creating an official transcript that attorneys will now have to do for themselves, such as; spelling, punctuation, visual cues and gestures, all things a tape recorder cannot transcribe….