Services - Collins Realtime Reporting - Court Reporters - Certified Shorthand Reporters

Address: 1722 Routh St., Suite 900, Dallas, Texas 75201
Toll Free: 888-886-9121 | Phone: 214-220-2449 | Fax: 214-220-2777

DEPOSITION SERVICES

Certified Shorthand Reporters are available for depositions, trials, hearings, arbitrations and meetings throughout the Dallas/Ft. Worth area as well as nationally and overseas.

Quick Turnaround Time is made possible by our responsive and dedicated reporters and by our internal production and administrative staff. Expedited delivery and/or same-day draft copy is available upon request. Same-day final copy is available when requested at time of scheduling.

Conference Rooms are available for depositions, arbitrations, and mediations. We have four conference rooms that can accommodate eight to fifty people.

Exhibit Services include photocopying, Bates stamping, image scanning, and OCR of exhibits for any size job.

Condensed Transcripts are available in conjunction with or in place of a full-size transcript. Our standard format is four pages to each side of the paper.

Full-text Computerized Transcripts (ASCII) are offered in various formats, i.e., Amicus, Summation®. The ASCII files may be quickly and easily imported into your favorite litigation support software for text searching, annotating and reporting.

E-Transcript™ by RealLegal® provides high performance, standardized, secure electronic transcripts. It converts imported ASCII files into a full-text searchable product and can be printed full size or condensed.

Publisher™ by RealLegal® provides a bundle on CD which includes the transcript, linked exhibits, and OCR-scanned documents for easy searching. A bundle may also include the transcript text synchronized and displayed with the video for videotaped depositions.

Records Retrieval Services specialize in managing the records retrieval process and depositions on written questions ensuring compliance with all rules and statutes relating to those records and their confidentiality.

Process Services are available for both deposition and court subpoenas through our professional and experienced process servers.

Worldwide Scheduling & Tracking of Depositions is available with our partners and affiliates around the globe. This saves you the time and effort of scheduling and tracking cases through multiple agencies.

Videography Services are provided by Collins Legal Video Service with oversight by a Certified Legal Video Specialist (CLVS) with more than 27 years of experience in the legal videography field. Video and text synchronization links video and text together for instant video access while reading the text.

Records Retrieval Services specialize in managing the records retrieval process and depositions on written questions ensuring compliance with all rules and statutes relating to those records and their confidentiality.

Process Services are available for both deposition and court subpoenas through our professional and experienced process servers.

HD Videoconferencing allows witnesses, parties, and attorneys to participate in a deposition without traveling. We have one videoconference suite in Dallas and the ability to schedule other locations around the world.


REALTIME SERVICES

Realtime Reporters simultaneously translate proceedings from their steno machines to their notebook computers for quicker readbacks, whether the last question or proceedings earlier in the day. Text can be displayed to an additional computer monitor, TV, or onto a wall or screen for the entire room to view upon request. Over half of our reporters are Certified Realtime Reporters for the legal setting. In comparison, only 5% of Texas reporters are certified in realtime.

Attorney Realtime Connections utilizing LiveNote®, Summation® Blaze™, RealLegal® Binder™, or other software allow attorneys to receive a "live" uncertified transcript directly to their computers from the court reporter through a serial connection. The text can be viewed, highlighted, and annotated.

Daily draft copy provides you a draft copy of the day's transcript for you to immediately begin reviewing, annotating, and summarizing. Daily final copy is also available if requested at time of scheduling.

Remote Realtime Internet Depositions can be accomplished by streaming the transcript realtime into a "virtual" conference room so attorneys and paralegals in remote cities can "virtually" attend the deposition. They can view the realtime text and instant-message back and forth with their co-counsel, clients, or experts. This saves travel time and costs.

Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided either on site or remote for schools, business conferences, and other public venues for anyone with hearing loss. Less than 2% of Texas court reporters are CART certified. The majority of our reporters hold a CART certification.

Open captioning to live video is also available. Remote CART allows for the CART provider to be in one location and the meeting participants in another city or state by sending the text over the Internet as the CART provider listens to a person over the telephone and inputs the text.


HD VIDEO CONFERENCING SERVICES

We now offer in-house videoconferencing services. We have combined the best available "broadcast quality" technology with our private, professional conference facility and complete range of services to provide you with a convenient and economical alternative to travel. The video is of superior quality and you feel as though you are in the same conference room with the other participants in another city, state, or country.

Our office is conveniently located in downtown Dallas. We have a conference room that can comfortably accommodate up to eight people at a table and others around the perimeter of the room. The conference room is equipped with wi-fi and a state-of-the-art videoconferencing system.