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For freelance court reporters.

The proceeding is one part of your day. The rates, setup, review, and delivery are yours to carry, too. Start with the tools for the work in front of you.

Follow the workday
Source + draft Your rate sheet Prepare → review → deliver
Your setup. Your judgment. Your finished record.

From the first rate quote to the final page.

A practical path through the work around the proceeding, with something useful at each stop.

  1. Before the job

    Set the terms. Check the setup.

    Put your rates in writing, work out the due date, and check what the assignment needs. Stenographic, voice writing, or digital: the checklist should fit your method.

    Build your setup checklist

  2. After the proceeding

    Return to the source.

    Read the draft against the audio. Resolve uncertain words and names before they become somebody else’s reference. AI can suggest a correction; the review still belongs to you.

    Read the transcript review guide

  3. At delivery

    Close the loop on the job.

    Check the pages, delivery terms, and invoice against your own rate schedule. Keep a job log so the small pieces of production do not get lost between assignments.

    Open your job and page log

Tools for your work.

Explore the tools and the work ahead. Each product’s status is shown beside its name.

  • Exhibits by DepoStack

     Preview

    Prepare exhibit stickers and review the marked pages in the current Preview. Keep the final exhibit decision and record review with the reporter.

  • Transcript by DepoStack

     Planned

    Planned to help you check a draft against its audio. You would still make the corrections and certify the transcript.

Keep a useful reference.

Field Notes on the decisions behind the work.

  1. The Art of the Transcript: Scoping and Proofreading Best Practices

    Transcripts

  2. Court Reporter Per-Page Rates Explained: Originals, Copies & Expedites

    Rates

  3. How Much Do Court Reporters Make in 2026? Freelance vs. Official vs. CART

    Pay

  4. Realtime Court Reporting: Equipment, Setup & Getting Started in 2026

    Realtime

  5. The State of Scoping and Transcript Review in 2026: Drafts, Audio, AI, and Who Decides

    Transcripts

Free tools and training

Open a tool and get to work. No account needed.

  • Rate sheet builder

    Set out your own rates on one printable page, under your own name. No prices of ours.

  • Transcript invoice estimator

    Your own rates, line by line, the way the invoice adds up.

  • Turnaround date calculator

    Count calendar or business days from the proceeding to the transcript’s due date, past the closed dates you add.

  • Job and page log

    A log of your jobs, pages and billing, totalled by month and year and kept only in this browser.

  • Exhibit number planner

    Plan the numbers for a multi-witness case and keep one exhibit log.

  • Errata sheet template

    Print an errata sheet for the deponent’s changes by page and line, with signature and date lines.

  • Setup picker

    Choose stenographic, voice writing or digital and the job, and print a setup checklist where every line is sourced.

  • The Art of the Transcript training

    Six short lessons in scoping and proofreading US deposition and court transcripts, for reporters, scopists, and proofreaders.

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