Georgia is Opening!
Tips for Scheduling Your Reporter Amid the Exciting Upcoming Crazy . . .
Hooray! Let’s get back to work.
As the wheels of justice slowly start to grind and roll again, it is time to get excited about the opportunity to get back together and back to normal. I, personally, MISS everyone! I cannot wait to be back at conference tables, talking about what happened last weekend and what your kids are up to - oh, and the depositions … I don’t know how to act without them.
Help us help you ….
Scheduling Tips to Get the Job Done.
Just a quick note - I am painfully aware that the judicial train wreck that has occurred over the past couple months is going to cause a pretty interesting backlog of discovery due to time inside as a result of COVID-19. As the process gets moving, please know that we are going to do every.single.thing to accommodate and get you on the schedule. Know, that scheduling for us court reporters - statewide - will be a challenge once the crazy hits. Please think of this and help us out when scheduling by considering the following:
(A) Getting things on our schedule at the first whiff of a possibility. We can move your date - easy peasy. But finding you a last minute reporter is sometimes not so easy - especially when every attorney in Georgia is trying to get their dep in - I would rather reschedule you and be OVERprepared than underprepared.
(B) Think of scheduling a deposition that you KNOW will be a shorter one - 2-3 hour type depositions or no-shows, etc. at times other than the very popular 10AM - I know it might be challenging, but if you could attempt to schedule these at 2PM or 3PM … that might allow us to place reporters on more than one job, which would not only let more depositions happen - but give the reporters more work per day! Even a short dep starting super early would work - say 8 or 9AM, if the parties agree.
Reporters WANT to work - we WANT to stack our days. So at least during this time ahead - please help us help you by thinking along these lines … especially if more than one deposition is happening in your office on the same day - let’s think of maybe staggering these and use the same reporter when possible! In these situations, the reporter is already there and set up, ready to go :)
Take care, Atlanta - we’ve flattened the curve - we’ve done our part … now to safely get back to our REAL jobs!
Happy scheduling …
Whit