The documents scopists prepare can carry a lot of weight in a court of law. And the bread and butter of a scopist’s legal work is the deposition. If you’re new to court reporting or to the legal world in…
Working online sometimes means studying online first in order to learn how to perform your future online job. BeST Scoping Techniques offers an online course in which you can study scoping. The owners of BeST, Cathy Knox and Judy Rakocinski,…
Learning how to become a scopist can be easy. It also can be difficult. And it can be in between. How quickly you’ll be able to learn depends on your innate abilities, the effort you put into learning, and the…
A lot of court reporters turn over a lot of transcripts to scopists. This is a good thing. It gives the court reporters more time to earn more money making more transcripts of testimony at legal proceedings which they can…
Life as a freelancer is a bit of a mystery to most people who are not freelancers. Delving into the unexpected can be scary, and that fear can really put people off of thinking seriously about moving from traditional employment…
Sometimes things that are very important can also be very difficult. Getting up when your alarm sounds is difficult. Organic chemistry formulas - AgOCN(aq) + NH4Cl(aq) ---->AgCl(s) + NH4OCN(aq) - are very difficult. Communication skills can be not only difficult but…
Danielle Cady is a 32-year-old Californian who began traveling and living abroad when she was 20. She's traveled in Spain, Greece and Iceland, to name a few countries. She's lived in South Korea and London, England, and she's moving to…
Self-employed people have many advantages in work and in life. Unfortunately, one of these advantages is not taxes. As a matter of fact, taxes are probably the only disadvantage of working for yourself. The tax situation for self-employed Americans is…
So many people want to travel but have no money. To solve this problem, a lot of people are starting to travel while working online at the same time. However, most people do not know this is an option. Those…
The court reporting profession came into being shortly after the invention of Gregg shorthand in 1888. The scoping profession did not come into being until long after the invention of the computer, about 100 years later. So the history of…