CRR Certified Realtime Reporter case studies
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The Certified Realtime Reporter (CRR) is a professional certification offered by the National Court Reporters Association (NCRA), one of several credentials the association administers alongside the Registered Professional Reporter, Registered Merit Reporter, Registered Diplomate Reporter, and Certified Realtime Captioner designations. It is intended for working reporters who write on a stenographic machine and translate their notes in real time - delivering an immediate, readable feed of proceedings as they are spoken, rather than a transcript produced after the fact. The CRR Certified Realtime Reporter case studies are 5 cases and about 3,044 words.
1The 4% Untranslate Cluster in a Live Patent Deposition
You are the realtime reporter for a two-attorney patent deposition in a hotel conference room, feeding both counsel's laptops. At the 90-minute mark, a rough count of your last ten minutes shows about 25 untranslated words per 600 written - roughly 4% - clustered in a 12-minute stretch of assay names, gene symbols, and 'phosphodiester.' One attorney has already asked you, off the record, to 'clean it up.' You cannot stop writing; the witness is still testifying.
662 words, about 3 min2Three 300-wpm Bursts and a Clerk's Complaint
Commercial-litigation trial, jury out. You average 240 wpm for the first two hours, with three or four 20- to 30-second bursts near 300 wpm during cross-examination.
603 words, about 3 min3Right, Write, and a Live Feed to the Law Clerk
You are the realtime reporter for a three-day hearing on a contract assignment dispute. 'Right' will appear constantly - 'the right to assign,' 'right of first refusal' - and so will 'write,' because one exhibit is a set of written notices.
585 words, about 3 min4Latency Spike in a Remote CART Feed
You provide remote CART to a deaf graduate student in a seminar held on a videoconference platform. Baseline latency from your keystroke to the student's screen is about 250 ms, which is acceptable to them.
613 words, about 3 min5A New Brief That Silently Broke a Common Word
Before a medical-products deposition you import a set of case briefs. You define SPHAO as 'spinal,' but your 6,200-entry dictionary already translates SPHAO to 'spatial,' and you did not run a conflict check.
581 words, about 3 min