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Session Description: Michael Starkman will be covering what is arguably the most valuable feature to the reporter - the Auto-Brief feature. Additional editing-related features will be covered as well. You do not want to miss this seminar!

Learning Objectives:

1. The attendee will learn the most up-to-date features of Eclipse Software.

2. The attendee will learn the Auto-Brief Feature.

3. The attendee will learn the ways AutoMagic can improve editing.

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Session Description: With the changes in the way court cases, depositions, etc. have been recorded in the last two years, Lisa is here to help with tips and tricks on your ProCAT software. Who would turn down a chance to pick up a shortcut or two?

Learning Objectives:

1. Attendees will learn various quick editing tips ranging from utilizing bookmarks to quickly and easily locating items, and various other editing shortcuts.

2. Attendees will also learn about ‘On The Record,’ a timer for states that have limits for attorneys' remarks.

3. Attendees will also learn how to send realtime feeds to their Attorneys and Judges through the Cloud, and the many benefits of customizing page layouts to meet their needs, whether freelance or officials.

4. Finally, attendees will learn how to redact sensitive information in their transcripts.

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Session Description: The Power of the Positive Attitude presentation is an engaging, interactive presentation for court reporters and captioners of all types, including students. During this 60-minute presentation you will smile, laugh, cry, and even feel like dancing. The presentation includes a discussion of the science behind the impact of a positive attitude on a person's ability to be productive, happy, and healthy. The effect of motivation and its connection to the work of court reporters is reviewed and discussed. This motivational speech is a unique opportunity to have a speaker present the Power of the Positive Attitude and the Effect of Motivation to court reporters with the insight and understanding of being a court reporter for over 30 years.

Meredith Bonn works as an Official Court Reporter in Rochester, New York and has been a court reporter for 30 years. For the past several years she has researched the power of the positive attitude and its connection to court reporting and life. The purpose of the presentation is to make court reporters happier and more productive in everything they do.

Those who have taken “The Power of the Positive Attitude” at an NCRA event will not be eligible for credit for this session.

Learning Objectives:

1. Attendees will learn about the science behind the impact of a positive attitude on a person's ability to be productive, happy, and healthy.

2. Attendees will learn how motivation is connected to the work of court reporters.

3. Attendees will learn how to be happier and more productive in everything they do.

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Session Description: Project Steno has delivered successful high school programs in Texas and Massachusetts. In this session, you will discover how easy it is to bring a steno program to your local high school. Were you invited to a career day or asked to make a classroom presentation? Project Steno has all the tools you will need – intro letters, handouts, and a Power Point presentation – so you can say yes with confidence. Bring awareness to your high school of “the best profession you never heard of.”

Learning Objectives:

1. Attendees will learn how to take initiative in reaching out to their local high schools to create a steno program.

2. Attendees will learn to gain confidence in talking to high school students in presenting at a High School Career Day.

3. Attendees will learn how to answer tough questions that will come from students, like costs of schooling, length of school, and how to get started.

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Session Description: What is Realtime Coach? Realtime Coach is a very effective and widely used skill-building tool used by thousands of reporters around the country. Reporters use this tool to help them prepare for certification exams, transition to realtime writing, improve translation rates generally, and earn CEUs.

Learning Objectives:

1. Attendees will learn the importance of using Realtime Coach for the certification exams.

2. Attendees will learn how to transition to realtime writing.

3. Attendees will learn how to improve their translation rates.

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Session Description: Forty years of trial work, mostly in homicide and “big” civil cases, has taught that in trial we are “on the record” most of the time, and “off the record” sometimes, but what happens “beyond the record” is often the most important and the most entertaining part of trial. This session will review events in and around trials that illustrate the surprises that even well-prepared witnesses can present, actions that relieve the tension of court, and happenings that cannot be foreseen.

Much of the criminal trial work was done with co-counsel. With no apologies to the Honorable J. Craig Cox, formerly a real attorney before he got himself benched, participation in and creation of incidents in this presentation cannot go unacknowledged.

Learning Objectives:

1. The attendees will learn how an attorney works with sudden, unexpected changes in witness testimony on the stand during trial.

2. How to build a case for trial.

3. What parts of a case that, even if entertaining, should not be included in trial.