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title: "For Freelance Court Reporters | DepoStack"
description: "For freelance court reporters: the DepoStack tools for exhibits and rough-draft review, Field Notes on rates and realtime, and free tools for the job."
url: "https://depostack.com/for/freelance-reporters/"
---

# 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](https://depostack.com/for/freelance-reporters/#workday)

*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](https://depostack.com/tools/setup-picker/)
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](https://depostack.com/blog/state-of-transcript-review-2026/)
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](https://depostack.com/tools/job-log/)

The reporter certifies.  
The software never does.

You make, review, certify, and deliver the transcript. DepoStack supports the workflow; it does not take over the record.

## Tools for your work.

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

- [Exhibits by DepoStack](https://depostack.com/exhibits/) 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](https://depostack.com/transcript/) 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](https://depostack.com/blog/art-of-the-transcript/)

   Transcripts Oct 13, 2026
2. ### [Court Reporter Per-Page Rates Explained: Originals, Copies & Expedites](https://depostack.com/blog/per-page-rates/)

   Rates May 12, 2026
3. ### [How Much Do Court Reporters Make in 2026? Freelance vs. Official vs. CART](https://depostack.com/blog/court-reporter-salary/)

   Pay Jun 2, 2026
4. ### [Realtime Court Reporting: Equipment, Setup & Getting Started in 2026](https://depostack.com/blog/realtime-court-reporting/)

   Realtime Jun 16, 2026
5. ### [The State of Scoping and Transcript Review in 2026: Drafts, Audio, AI, and Who Decides](https://depostack.com/blog/state-of-transcript-review-2026/)

   Transcripts Oct 11, 2026

## Free tools and training

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

- ### [Rate sheet builder](https://depostack.com/tools/rate-sheet/)

  Set out your own rates on one printable page, under your own name. No prices of ours.
- ### [Transcript invoice estimator](https://depostack.com/tools/transcript-estimate/)

  Your own rates, line by line, the way the invoice adds up.
- ### [Turnaround date calculator](https://depostack.com/tools/turnaround/)

  Count calendar or business days from the proceeding to the transcript’s due date, past the closed dates you add.
- ### [Job and page log](https://depostack.com/tools/job-log/)

  A log of your jobs, pages and billing, totalled by month and year and kept only in this browser.
- ### [Exhibit number planner](https://depostack.com/tools/exhibit-numbers/)

  Plan the numbers for a multi-witness case and keep one exhibit log.
- ### [Errata sheet template](https://depostack.com/tools/errata-sheet/)

  Print an errata sheet for the deponent’s changes by page and line, with signature and date lines.
- ### [Setup picker](https://depostack.com/tools/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](https://depostack.com/training/art-of-the-transcript/)

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

## Follow what comes next.

Join the waitlist for development updates. We write only when there is something concrete to share.

*The waitlist form is not reproduced here. A person joins at https://depostack.com/for/freelance-reporters/#waitlist: it is for the person themselves, with their own consent, and may ask for a human check (Cloudflare Turnstile) and confirmation by email, so an agent should send the person there rather than submit it for them. See https://depostack.com/auth.md.*