Gift Guide for Scopists 2020
If you're one of the few people in the world who knows what a scopist is, you'll probably be super surprised to hear that you can actually buy special scopist gifts for the handful of intrepid people who freelance in…
Work-at-Home Legal Jobs (for Non-Lawyers)
As you search the internet for different types of work-at-home jobs, you may not find jobs in the legal field at the top of the results. This may be because doing legal jobs at a home is a pretty new…
3 Best-Paying Work at Home Jobs for Retirees
Earning money at home is an ideal situation for many people, especially retirees. When you retire, you may need - or just want - to earn some money to supplement your retirement income but you probably don’t want to relive…
Internet Scoping School – Scopist Training in 2020
(UPDATED SEPTEMBER 20, 2019) Linda Evenson is the founder of a very successful scopist training course called Internet Scoping School. She freelanced as a scopist full time for 20 years before deciding to teach others how to earn money in…
Accuracy (and Inaccuracy) of Court Documents can Change Lives
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…
BeST Scoping Techniques Online Course – Interview with Teacher Judy Rakocinski
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,…
5 Best Headphones and Foot Pedals – Scopists and Transcriptionists
It's very important if you're a freelance scopist or transcriptionist that you use the best headphones and foot pedals for scopists and transcriptionists. In this post you will find the most popular headphones and foot pedals used by scopists and…
What is a Scopist for Court Reporters?
Almost no one has heard the word scopist. Spell checks don’t recognize it, autofills think you want to type science, scoop or socialist, and if you mention the word scopist to someone, they’ll probably say "what's a scopist?" You are…
How to Become a Scopist
(UPDATED 1/20/20) 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,…
10 Things Scopists Want Court Reporters to Know
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…