Court Reporter

Your New Career
Demand for realtime and broadcast captioning and translating will result in employment growth for court reporters. When it comes to realtime skills and transcription speed development, you'll have the skills for the job. 

• Earn your Career Diploma at home in as little as 18 months by studying just an hour a day for your new career.
• Prepare for several exciting professional specialties. You can be a Scopist, Legal Secretary, Medical Transcriptionist, Steno-Interpreter, Tape Transcriptionist, or Close-Captioner.
• Start your own business. Work part-time from home, or begin a full-time transcription practice.

Your New Skills
Demand for court reporter services will be spurred by the continuing need for accurate transcription of proceedings in courts and in pretrial depositions. There is a growing need to create captions of live or prerecorded television and provide other realtime translating services for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community.

Court reporters can earn, on average, $45,000 a year, and can earn much more with experience.*

The Internet is expected to affect how reporting services are provided as online video technology improves and more meetings, college classes, and even depositions take place on the Internet. Court reporters will be in demand online to provide instantaneous text of those meetings in a searchable, easy-to-access medium. Apply the skills you learn in your training program diligently for a successful and secure future.

Your New Skills
You'll learn every important part of being a Court Reporter:

• The art, history, and skills required for the court reporting profession.
• Concentration and speed development throughout the program.
• The legal and medical terminology required to produce flawless transcripts.
• Language and communication skills to make your job easier.

*Salary information is based on the Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-09 Edition, a publication of the U.S. Department of Labor. Individual student earnings vary based on experience.