Seven Tips for Better Realtime Translation
- Provide your court reporter a caption/style of the case
- Provide your court reporter with names and addresses of all counsel on the case
- Provide your court reporter with a list of proper names
- Provide your court reporter with a list of any unusual or technical spellings
- Know your litigation support software and how to hook up with the court reporter
- Advise the witness that one person should speak at a time in order to ensure a better translation
- If possible, use the same reporter throughout the discovery process. The court reporter's translation and dictionary building gets better with each deposition
