Follow the Leader

Provided by Matthew Spievak, Sarnoff Court Reporters, VP/GM Northern Region.  Matt is a member of NorCalPROS

There are a few childhood games that I still remember vividly. I loved Duck, Duck, Goose, Telephone and Follow The Leader. They all had an element of danger in them and the ability to really get a little kid's heart pumping. Duck, Duck, Goose because there was this anticipation in both being tagged as the "goose" and having to give chase around the circle, hoping to beat the tagger back to your seat. I never won, so my only hope was not to get tagged. Telephone because I lived in fear of being the one that screwed up the phrase that was being passed. That fear was born from an embarrassing revelation that came in first grade … the one time I recall being the leader was on the playground in second grade when someone got hurt. I thought it was a brilliant idea to lead my little troop up and over the teeter-totter. The third person in line pounced the teetertotter down to the ground and Kim Haggie, the fourth person in line, took that wooden playground apparatus on the chin, causing her to bleed profusely, which earned her a few stitches and me a chair in the principal's office.

Videotaped Testimony Synchronized with Transcript

A user-friendly tool for all phases of litigation 

By Marnie Levy, CLVS, Sky Blue Video and Jeff Koller, General Counsel and Client ServicesAdministrator, Hutchings Court Reporters, LLC.  Jeff is a member of the San Diego Chapter of SoCalPROS.

One of the most powerful tools for utilizing videotaped depositions is synchronizing the video and transcript.

Simply put, “video-sync” links each line of a deposition transcript with the video deposition so they play simultaneously. As you might imagine, video testimony and the written transcript scrolling side-by-side is a one-two punch of credibility!

In addition, the video-sync software has multiple features that make it a convenient, economical, user-friendly method for organizing, sharing, and presenting testimony before and during trial, arbitration, or mediation.