CoverCrow Users

05/14/2026

I spent years believing the profession could be saved through exclusivity alone. What I failed to understand was that not every player in this industry shared the same incentive structure. Reporters fought to preserve a profession. Agencies fought to preserve labor supply, market share, and operational continuity. Once I understood that, everything changed. The future will not be secured by trying to lock everyone else out. It will be secured by building transparent systems of accountability, provenance, and trust around the legal record itself.

04/15/2026

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/04/08/3270031/0/en/NCRA-President-warns-court-transcripts-created-by-unlicensed-providers-put-judicial-integrity-at-risk.html

Cautions about dangers of relying on unsupervised recording devices, remote third-party transcribers, and automated systems operating outside of state...

09/14/2025

On July 21, 2018, CalDRA President Cheryl Haab led a pivotal town hall in Huntington Beach where Kimberly D’Urso pressed the issue of reporter-free depositions and Ed Howard advanced a flawed inter…

06/10/2025

This video is right on point.

Pros and cons of using a scopist as a new court reporter

04/09/2025

02/07/2025

In June 2023, a study published in The Journal of Neuroscience revealed that crows understand the concept of zero, a cognitive ability requiring abstract thinking. Researchers discovered that crows not only recognized zero as distinct from other numbers but associated it more closely with the number one. Brain scans showed the birds have specialized neurons for processing zero, highlighting how evolution independently developed this higher-level function in both humans and birds, despite their last common ancestor existing before the dinosaurs' extinction.

09/15/2024

https://www.ocregister.com/2024/09/05/court-reporter-shortage-prompts-la-superior-court-system-to-allow-more-electronic-recording/

Recording will be permitted during certain family law, probate and civil proceedings when court reporters are not available.

08/19/2024

I'm honored to be nominated for the Innovator of the Year award by the Orange County Business Journal for a third year.

https://ocbj.wppcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Innovator-of-the-Year-8.19.24.pdf