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Atlanta, GA, March 16, 2015 – Remote Counsel, the leading provider of remote participation solutions for legal events, proudly announces a partnership with Elizabeth Gallo Court Reporting, which will enable the firm to manage and deliver all aspects of remote participation for viewing depositions, trials, and other legal events on Remote Counsel’s Intermediate subscription package.

Elizabeth Gallo Court Reporting, an industry leader with decades of court reporting experience and a wide variety of legal services, will leverage Remote Counsel software, services, and support throughout their workflow.

“We strive to provide the best possible experience for our clients using remote participation solutions,” said Elizabeth Gallo, owner of Elizabeth Gallo Court Reporting, LLC. “Remote Counsel’s subscriptions offer a comprehensive package of all of the technology services we need to deliver to our clients. When we realized Remote Counsel’s package subscriptions include their Cameo II service at no extra cost, we jumped at the opportunity to partner with them.”

Included in the Intermediate package are all elements of the Remote Counsel Case Management Platform, including event scheduling and management, event notifications, comprehensive access options for participants in depositions and other events, group chat, and access to the best videoconference rooms for legal events, along with top-tier support from the Remote Counsel sales, marketing, and customer experience teams.

“Elizabeth Gallo Court Reporting is a highly respected firm in the court reporting industry, and we’re proud to partner with them,” said Andrew Feinberg, CEO of Courtroom Connect, Remote Counsel’s parent company. “The Intermediate subscription is perfect for their firm and includes everything they need to remain successful in their target market, including our revolutionary new mobile videoconferencing service, Cameo II.”

Under the terms of the deal, Elizabeth Gallo Court Reporters will use the Remote Counsel platform with complete, end-to-end support from Remote Counsel’s award winning customer experience team.

About Remote Counsel:

Remote Counsel provides the most comprehensive legal technology platform in the industry. Since 1996, Remote Counsel’s products and services have been used by hundreds of court reporters and other litigation service providers to allow for remote participation in depositions, courtroom proceedings, jury research, and other legal events. Remote Counsel, headquartered in Atlanta, GA, is a division of Courtroom Connect. Courtroom Connect creates technology solutions and online platforms for legal and financial professionals, focusing on expanding access to legal events. Learn more at www.remotecounsel.com.

About Elizabeth Gallo Court Reporting, LLC:

Elizabeth Gallo founded the Elizabeth Gallo Court Reporting firm to focus on prioritizing substance over style in the court reporting industry. With decades of collective experience, the firm prides itself on their ability to provide fast turn-around times for transcripts, expedited services, court reporters and event scheduling, education courses for court reporters, and videoconferencing services. Learn more at https://www.georgiareporting.com/.

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There are certain things that people tend to think of when they envision court reporters: someone who is sitting up straight in a courtroom, the relentless tapping away at a keyboard that looks a bit different than what we’re used to, and piles and piles of paper. The court reporting industry is synonymous with the usage of paper, as that’s what we do – we keep an exact record of what happens in courtrooms or meeting rooms and we make a record of all of it. Unless you’ve worked at a court reporting firm, it may be difficult to fully understand just how much paper is involved with providing our service.

That’s why our decision at Elizabeth Gallo Court Reporting, LLC to go green is actually a very big step for us and for everyone who works with us. Our Georgia court reporters have all embraced this change with enthusiasm, and we hope that our clients continue to do so as well. In furtherance of this effort, we’d like to put some very basic numbers out there so everyone can perhaps gain some perspective on the difference that just one court reporting firm can make by moving as far away from using sheets of paper as possible.

Estimates Regarding Paper Usage

Most current estimates indicate that the average office worker in the United States uses approximately 10,000 pieces of paper every year. Considering that the average worker spends approximately 250 days per year at work, that’s 40 pages per day, which is an astounding number. 10,000 pieces of paper is roughly equivalent to one entire tree. Not to mention, that’s a very low number when one considers what court reporters do all day. Industry estimates state that it’s not uncommon for a court reporting firm to use several million pieces of paper every year.

Estimates Regarding Paper Avoidance

In addition to the massive estimates regarding paper usage in the United States, other estimates indicate that a dedicated effort towards eliminating this waste can cut paper consumption by upwards of 80 percent in a single office. That not only cuts way down on waste, but it cuts down substantially on the costs associated with this resource. Many court reporting firm owners have looked at their paper costs with horror at the end of the year. Some court reporting firms are changing all of that.

How We’re Adapting

The Georgia court reporters at Elizabeth Gallo Court Reporting, LLC have moved away from paper quickly. We now provide all of our transcripts and our invoices in electronic form. We don’t require all of our clients to handle things this way yet, but we’re hoping that before long everyone we work with sees things the same way that we do. Not to mention, and as is always the case, we are passing the cost savings we’re realizing directly on to our clients.

If you’d like to move towards the elimination of paper waste, contact us to find out how you can make use of our services without having to pay for paper, printing, storage and every other wasteful expense associated with the printed page.

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The media is quite a creature in the modern United States.  Media members reporting on media members has in itself become a spectacle, as our media stars have somehow become as much a part of the stories on which they report as the stories themselves.  We have seen this play out more than once recently, what with the suspension of NBC’s Brian Williams after it came out that he was allegedly dishonest with regards to old stories in the Middle East.  Williams’ suspension was for six months.

On the immediate heels of that ‘story’ came another ‘story’ regarding Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly.  O’Reilly has been under attack for more than one alleged exaggeration in recent days, and there is no telling how this situation will play out.  What does any of this have to do with court reporters, you ask?  Well, one of the specific situations that’s been dogging O’Reilly in recent days concerns his assertion that he heard the gun shot of a man who committed suicide as he was researching his book on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.  That story involved a court reporter.

Let us explain:

The man that O’Reilly claimed to have heard commit suicide was George de Mohrenschildt.  He was known at the time of Kennedy as a staunch Dallas conservative.  However, it was ultimately revealed that prior to the Kennedy assassination, de Mohrenschildt sought approval from the CIA to contact Lee Harvey Oswald, who was arrested for killing Kennedy and who was killed himself a few days later.  As was explained in this article, there would be no reason on the surface for a conservative such as de Mohrenschildt to want anything to do with a known communist such as Oswald.  The theory that emerged was that both were intelligence assets of some sort.

The question of whether Oswald was an intelligence asset was actually addressed by the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination of Kennedy.  The commission called what was supposed to be a secret meeting to ask the FBI and the CIA whether or not Oswald was an intelligence asset.  Both agencies denied this, and the matter was never pursued beyond that point by the commission.

If that hearing was supposed to be a secret, then how did anyone ever find out about it?  Because a court reporter did not destroy her record of that hearing, that’s how.  A transcript of the meeting was found and the American people eventually heard what was said during that gathering.  This should once again reinforce just how important court reporters can be whenever someone wants to review the record of just about anything.

To be clear, we are not taking any position with regards to the matters relating to Brian Williams or to Bill O’Reilly.  We just find it interesting that seemingly no matter where you look, court reporters are present on some level preserving an accurate record of what happened.