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 at home is one of the best things in the world. If you work at home - or if you know someone who does - you know that it is a great way to live. (This post contains affiliate…
When October was turning into November this year, I flipped the page on my kitchen wall calendar. One reason I had bought this calendar was because a helpful quote comes along with each new month. The November quote was really…
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,…
(UPDATED MARCH 10, 2019) You may be one of the growing number of people who wants to walk out of your stifling office job and into the freedom of being self employed working online. Or you may already be living…
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…
“How do you use that thing, anyway?” Most court reporters like myself have heard that question dozens if not hundreds of times over the years of our careers. Witnesses at depositions are the ones who usually ask this when they…
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?" (This post…
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…
