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Midwest Reporters, Inc. provides your team all the litigation support you need. From certified court reporters to in-house legal videographers, our expert staff is qualified to deliver wide-ranging services that strengthen your legal case—whatever that case may involve. We strive to capture testimony in a compelling way, so we use the latest production technologies and guarantee that your deposition or legal video is shot by a CLVS-trained videographer. Our results are undeniable: Midwest Reporters, Inc. helps your legal team win.

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• Telepresence-Quality

Whether you need legal videos or teleconferencing capability, we use innovative techniques and technology to ensure telepresence-quality that makes watching our legal videos as powerful as witnessing crucial testimony or messages face-to-face.

• Realtime Reporting

Midwest Reporters, Inc. understands our clients often need to use deposition testimony immediately, so we offer instantaneous transcripts—viewable even while proceedings are still occurring. Our realtime reporting is accurate, convenient, and quite often a must for your legal team.

• Downtown Deposition Suites

To ensure that your witnesses are comfortable and ready to deliver compelling testimony, Midwest Reporters, Inc. provides roomy deposition suites conveniently located downtown in any Midwestern city.

• Daily Copy

Whether you’re dealing with arbitration, litigation, or a jury trial, Midwest Reporters, Inc. is here to help your legal team prepare for its case. We can even provide a copy of any proceeding the same day we capture it, so you can immediately begin planning how to use the critical testimony.

• Expedited Delivery

Our clients count on us when they’re running behind and desperately need to finish case preparation, so Midwest Reporters, Inc. offers expedited transcript delivery upon request. We’ve not yet discovered how to deliver your transcript yesterday, but we can guarantee you won’t be asking where it is tomorrow.

• Litigation Support

Midwest Reporters, Inc. makes life easier for your litigation team. Using the latest technologies in the industry, we provide the in-depth, high-tech support that can help win your case. Whether your team needs excellent teleconferencing capabilities, engaging depositions, travel arrangements, an interpreter or any other litigation-related service, Midwest Reporters, Inc. is here for you.

• Mini-transcripts

So you can easily view multiple portions of a given deposition concurrently, Midwest Reporters, Inc. includes a complimentary, four-to-a-page mini-transcript with every transcript you order.

• Keyword Indexing

With every transcript you order, Midwest Reporters, Inc. provides a keyword index volume at no extra fee. For your convenience, we can send your keyword index formatted electronically or as a printed hard copy.

• ASCII Disk

So you can use the software program you prefer, Midwest Reporters, Inc. includes an ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) disk with every transcript we deliver. ASCII formatting eliminates your need to buy expensive new software to access crucial information from a proceeding. We believe our clients deserve this service at no extra cost. After all, your success is the key to our success.

• Easy Access Delivery Package

Midwest Reporters, Inc. delivers a comprehensive CD-ROM with every transcript order, because we understand easily accessed information is key to building your case.

Every CD-ROM includes your transcript file along with any related exhibits scanned and formatted to PDF files. Like all services, our delivery package makes your life easier, so you can get on with winning your case.

• Nationally Certified Videographers

Every Midwest Reporters, Inc. videographer has been NCRA-certified and trained to use the latest recording technology. We demand these excellent qualifications of our videographers so they can deliver compelling and unblemished deposition videos time after time.

• Digital Videotaping

Midwest Reporters, Inc. can record your deposition using digital videotapes. That’s important to maintaining a smooth deposition, because it eliminates the need to interrupt the proceedings just to change an older, 60-minute videotape.

• Video on DVD, CD-ROM, VHS

To provide options that best suit your litigation needs on a case-to-case basis, Midwest Reporters, Inc. can deliver your deposition or proceeding in various formats. You can choose among DVD, CD-ROM, or VHS format.

• Video Text Synchronization

To help you further engage your audience, Midwest Reporters, Inc. can perform video text synchronization, which lets viewers read the transcript while simultaneously watching the proceedings.

Along with standard VHS format, we can deliver your synchronized transcript and video on DVD or CD-ROM. Clients love our digital formatting, because it lets them easily access and present specific clips of a legal video.

• Exhibit Imaging

Midwest Reporters, Inc. provides complimentary exhibit imaging services with each legal video we deliver. We’ll scan every physical exhibit and format the files to a convenient, well-organized CD, so your legal team can concentrate on other pressing matters.

• E-Transcript Delivery

Midwest Reporters, Inc. recognizes that our clients often need to review a given transcript the moment it’s available. With that in mind, we’ve adopted newly developed e-transcript technology, which lets us deliver a printable, fully searchable electronic copy of every transcript using standard email practices. Successful legal teams swear by our e-transcript delivery, because it’s convenient, reliable, and as immediately accessible as it gets.

• Interpreters

Going global with your law firm? Midwest Reporters, Inc. is here to help. We’ll provide fluent interpreters, available at your convenience, for any deposition or proceeding we handle.

• Nationwide Network

Midwest Reporters, Inc. conducts nationwide networking with the most reliable, technologically-advanced court reporting firms available. So we can provide our clients excellent litigation support and legal video production anywhere in the country.

• Conference Rooms

Midwest Reporters, Inc. provides comfortable, state-of-the-art conference rooms for your out-of-town clients and to meet your needs for any reporting job.

• Teleconferencing

In today’s national and international business climate, legal teams rack up serious travel expenses. But why break the budget for an hour-long meeting when Midwest Reporters, Inc. makes communication over the Internet so easy?

Our experienced technicians provide telepresence-quality videoconferencing that’s reliable, cost-efficient, and every bit as effective as face-to-face meetings.

• Video Wills

Even clearly written wills can be contested, leaving grieving family members bickering over the deceased’s intentions. Midwest Reporters, Inc. can eliminate this unfortunate possibility by capturing the testator’s wishes in a video will—shot by one of our certified videographers. Our video wills effectively demonstrate mental competence and always include a close-up shot of the testator signing a written will in front of a witness.

• Site Inspection

Many cases require visual information about a building or property located in a remote area. Midwest Reporters, Inc. meets this need with our site inspection videos. Our professional videographers can capture the exact footage your legal team directs us to, so you can effectively present the pivotal video evidence in court.

• Video Demonstrations

A video demonstration by Midwest Reporters, Inc. is the perfect way to capture a reenacted event. Our captivating approach thoroughly and accurately depicts the event for the judge or jury, so they can make an informed decision.

• Mock Trials

Midwest Reporters, Inc. can assist in your trial preparation by setting up a mock trial. We’ll conduct the trial in one of our conveniently located conference rooms or right there at your law firm. Our certified videographers will capture every moment of your mock trial, so your legal team can review the proceedings and shore up any potential weakness in your case.