NCRA-Certified Scopists

Precision Scoping Services for Elite Court Reporters Nationwide.

Seamlessly translating, editing, and refining your transcripts with absolute fidelity to the audio — resolving untranslates, verifying every speaker, and formatting every page to your exact specifications.

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11+ yrs

Court Reporting Experience

Why reporters choose us

A long-term scoping partner court reporters can rely on.

Accuracy, reliability, and discretion are the backbone of everything we do. When a transcript leaves our desk, it's right.

NCRA-Certified Expertise

Our team features scopists certified through the National Court Reporting Association — the premier professional association for court reporters and legal support professionals. Membership reflects a commitment to the highest standards of ethics, education, and excellence in the court reporting field.

Built for Your Schedule

We understand the grueling schedules court reporters face. Every engagement is structured around delivering a pristine, turnaround-ready product — polished, production-ready transcripts within your required timeframe, without ever sacrificing quality.

Local Roots, National Reach

Based in Rochester, Minnesota, we proudly serve court reporters locally throughout Minnesota and all over the country. Distance is never a barrier to precise, reliable, court-ready work delivered on or before your deadline.

Software compatibility

Scoped natively in your preferred CAT software.

Files are edited natively within the reporter's own platform — never converted or round-tripped. This preserves your user dictionaries, formatting macros, includes, and personal style settings exactly as you built them, ensuring a seamless workflow and a truly turnaround-ready file on delivery.

Case CATalyst
Native, expert-level command of the complete toolset — global editing, dictionary management, and formatting macros.
Eclipse CAT
Fluent editing within Eclipse, preserving your blocks, includes, and personal formatting conventions.
ProCAT
Full support for ProCAT files, honoring your dictionaries and page-layout preferences throughout.

Core services

Three disciplines, one exacting standard.

Exactly what you receive — no ambiguity, no surprises. Each offering is built for the precision the legal record demands.

Scoping Services

Comprehensive editing of raw steno translations to produce clean, accurate, and court-ready transcripts.

Full text-to-audio matching with meticulous verification of spellings, proper nouns, expert-witness names, case citations, and formatting. I resolve untranslates, correct misstrokes, and match your style guide precisely — handling expedited, daily, and standard turnaround schedules with seamless audio synchronization.

Untranslate resolution
Dictionary suggestions
Formatting to your style guide
Speaker identification
Audio-to-text verification

Legal Transcription

Accurate transcription of depositions, hearings, and proceedings from audio recordings.

Converting multi-speaker legal audio recordings, depositions, and administrative hearings into beautifully formatted, accurate verbatim transcripts that comply with jurisdictional standards — delivered with the same precision and attention to detail as every scoped transcript.

Deposition transcription
Hearing & proceeding records
Verbatim & clean-read options
Time-stamped transcripts
Multi-speaker identification

Proofreading Services

A meticulous final review that catches what others miss.

A rigorous final pass against the reporter’s audio or as a straight text read. Every page is examined for typographical errors, punctuation inconsistencies, missing or repeated words, formatting anomalies, parenthetical accuracy, and logical flow — ensuring your transcript is flawless.

Grammar & punctuation review
Page & line number verification
Appearance consistency
Index cross-referencing
Final quality assurance

Inside the scoping process

The art of transforming a raw CAT file into a production-ready record.

Working directly in your CAT software, I edit with precision — resolving every untranslate, verifying every speaker, and formatting every page to your exact specifications, leveraging the industry's leading tools to meet the highest standards of the legal profession.

Untranslate Resolution

Every untranslate is researched, audio-verified, and corrected using contextual knowledge and dictionary building — capturing every word spoken, including false starts, interruptions, and non-verbal notations where required.

Formatting to Your Style Guide

Margin settings, line spacing, headers and footers, exhibit references, and certification pages — all handled per your firm’s standards. For readability-focused deliverables, filler words are removed while preserving full meaning.

Speaker Identification

Q&A designations, colloquy, and speaker turns are formatted cleanly and consistently throughout, with clear designation across the full transcript.

Spelling & Terminology Verification

Legal terms, proper nouns, expert-witness names, and medical vocabulary are carefully researched and confirmed. Questionable passages are flagged with time references so you can verify against the recording.

Dictionary Suggestions

New briefs and conflict resolutions are flagged and returned with your finished transcript to improve future jobs — with optional time-code insertion keyed to the original audio.

Final File Delivery

A cleaned .ptx file and/or ASCII/PDF delivered via your preferred method, on or before your deadline — in standard deposition or hearing format with appropriate headers, line numbering, and certification block.

The difference

Why reporters choose Expert CAT Scoping.

Consistency You Can Count On

Every job, every time — the same meticulous standard. Untranslates are resolved, formatting is pristine, and the record is court-ready, without exception.

Communication & Availability

Clear, responsive communication throughout every project. You will never be left wondering about the status of your transcript.

Competitive Rates

Two decades of efficiency mean top-tier quality without premium pricing — excellent value for exceptional work.

Your Workflow, Respected

I adapt to your preferences, style guides, and formatting requirements — a seamless extension of your practice, reviewed word by word.

Full Platform Proficiency

Expert-level command of Case CATalyst’s complete toolset — from global editing to dictionary management — for efficient file exchange.

Confidential & Secure

All transcripts are handled with strict confidentiality. Rush jobs and tight turnarounds are protected with the same care as standard timelines.

About the practice

Over a decade of precision behind every word.

Expert CAT Scoping is a dedicated NCRA-certified scopist, transcriptionist, and proofreader with over eleven years of experience in the court reporting industry. Based in Rochester, Minnesota, the practice was built on a singular commitment: delivering the most accurate, clean, and court-ready transcripts possible.

As a certified Case CATalyst, Eclipse, and ProCAT scopist, I work closely with reporters to resolve untranslates, build and refine dictionaries, and produce polished final transcripts that meet the highest standards of the legal profession. A deep familiarity with stenography means I integrate seamlessly into your workflow — saving you time and delivering consistency you can rely on.

Professionalism and responsiveness are the backbone of everything I do. Tight deadline? Rush job? I'm built for it. Clients return because they know that when it leaves my desk, it's right.

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11+

Years in the industry

CAT platforms supported

States served

100%

Confidential handling