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Court Reporter "Goes the Extra Mile" in Asia
The case: An extremely technical dispute between an electrical power plant in Asia and a U.S. management company.

The job: Patterson Reporting sent a court reporter to the Philippines, Singapore and Hong Kong for discovery. The client then asked Patterson Reporting to send a reporter to Hong Kong for five weeks to report the arbitration and provide a LiveNote real-time reporting feed to the arbitrator and the attorneys. On the first day of arbitration, the arbitrator surprised everyone by instructing counsel to have daily transcript copies delivered to him first thing each morning, for all five weeks of the arbitration.

Ordinarily, this task involves at least two reporters and a support person; but the client had asked for one reporter, who was alone in Hong Kong. There was no time to make arrangements for additional reporters or support people to join the effort.

The reporter single-handedly took care of the situation by reporting at the proceedings all day, every day, and then producing the day's transcript at night. She sent copies of the transcript electronically to counsel's client office in the United States, and then transferred the transcript to three computers the next morning before the start of arbitration proceedings. This enabled the attorneys, the arbitrator and counsel's client to have on their computer complete transcripts of the entire proceedings through each day. They used LiveNote to search and retrieve text. The arbitrator, who was from Hong Kong, acknowledged the Patterson reporter's efforts and accomplishments in his written order at the conclusion of arbitration.

The job: Patterson Reporting did the court reporting and the depositions. Patterson's court reporter moved to the rural area where the proceedings were held for the six weeks of the trial.

The attorneys wanted daily transcripts with next-day turnaround, so the Patterson court reporter, after reporting at the proceedings all day, prepared the transcripts at night for use by the attorneys and their paralegals.