Idaho Court Reporters Association

Please see http://www.id.uscourts.gov/jobs/CourtReporter.11.08.pdf for details.

Position Title:  Realtime Court Reporter for Chief U.S. District Judge

Location:  Boise, Idaho, with frequent travel

Closing Date:  Monday, October 20, 2008, 5 p.m.

Please see website address below for more details:

http://www.id.uscourts.gov/jobs/CourtReporter.10.081.pdf

The Inverness Hotel and Convention Center has an airport shuttle from DIA and

Colorado Springs.  It also has a shuttle to Park Meadows Mall for some great shopping, and golfing.  It’s a great hotel with a day spa, as well.

 Location:

Inverness

Hotel & Conference

Center
200 Inverness Drive West

I-25 & Dry Creek RoadEnglewood, CO 80112

Dates:        Friday, 10/17 through Sunday, 10/19/08 Hotel Info:   Reservations:  800-346-4891Web Site:  www.invernesshotel.com (take a virtual tour!)(link on ccra@info for hotel registration) 

CEUs:         1.0 CEUs applied for!!! Friday, October 17, 2008 Agenda:7:00 – 11:00 Happy hour in the CCRA Suite Saturday, October 18, 2008 Agenda:7:00 – 8:30: Registration and continental breakfast 8:30 – 10:00: Bernard Poskus, Esq. – Learn about estate planning, dealing with Alzheimer’s, and much more from veteran attorney Poskus. 10:00 – 10:30: Break (snacks, visit vendors) 10:30 – 12:00 Thomas Hanson, CPA – We’ll learn how to  prepare for financial security, tax prep tips, and more from long-time CPA Hanson. 12:00 – 1:30  Buffet lunch 1:30 – 3:00   Jason Meadors – Jason will give us the REAL  scoop at the national level:  finances, helping to write the WKTs, online voting, and more! 3:00 – 3:30   Break (snacks, visit vendors) 3:30 – 5:00  

CCRA

Board

Town Meeting – We’ll hear from Betsy Clark Murray, our lobbyist, and from our CCRA Board about things going on at the state level. Sunday, October 19, 2008 Agenda:  “Realtime in the

Rockies” (bring your writers and laptops!) 7:00 – 8:00   Continental breakfast PLEASE SELECT ONE OF THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS AND INDICATE ON THE SPACE PROVIDED ON THE REGISTRATION FORM WHICH OPTION YOU WILL BE ATTENDING: Option I:8:00 – 9:30   Teresa Coogle - Realtime writer Teresa will share war stories, tips for realtimers or wannabes, and much more! 9:30 – 10:00  Break (snacks) 10:00 – 11:30 Kathy Davis’s Stenoswap – Kathy will host a stenoswap, so bring your favorite briefs to share! 11:30 – 12:00 Break (snacks) 12:00 – 1:00  Sylvia Noneff – Sylvia will review testing procedures, followed by mock tests to gain experience writing in a test setting.  Option II:8:00 – 9:30   CAT Breakout Sessions – Part I.  Choose from  four CAT software classes to learn about updates in your software, focusing on realtime applications and much more! (Please indicate your CAT class choice on the registration form.)1.   Stenograph (Case CATalyst) 2.   Advantage Software (Eclipse)3.   ProCAT4.   StenoCAT              9:30 – 10:00  Break (snacks) 10:00 – 11:30 CAT Breakout Sessions – Part II.   Our four CAT software teachers will continue their informative sessions, concluding with a question-and-answer session.   11:30 – 12:00 Break (snacks) 12:00 – 1:00  Join Sylvia’s NCRA Testing Prep class!

 

ICRA NEWS!!

On behalf of ICRA we would like to welcome the members for the 2008-2009 year and encourage everyone else to please support your association through your membership or willingness to volunteer with the tasks of the association.  

At the business meeting held in

Post Falls, Idaho, in May, Nicole Omsberg was re-elected as President, Ronelle Corbey was elected as Vice President, and Kim Saunders will stay on as Secretary-Treasurer.  We will be asking for volunteers to help plan the next seminar as well as fundraising and other duties. So if interested, please contact us.  Also, suggestions for seminar topics, dates, places, etc., are always welcomed. 

We are proud to report that our seminar in

Post Falls, Idaho, this past May was a tremendous success.  We would like to thank all of those that attended.   It was great to finally put faces to the northern reporters and to meet reporters from the surrounding areas. We will have pictures from the seminar posted on the ICRA website in the near future.   

While official court reporters in

Idaho aren’t facing serious problems at this time with being replaced with digital recording, it was disheartening to learn that the official court reporters in King County Washington will be replaced by digital recording through attrition in the future.  This is yet another reason we need to stick together, keep the lines of communication open, and strive to become an indispensable part of the legal community.   

 

On that note, we would encourage all of the reporters in the state of Idaho to obtain either their Registered Professional Reporter, Certified Realtime Reporter, or Registered Merit Reporter designation as a way of exceeding the expectations of our clients, whoever they might be, attend seminars, classes, conventions, and share with others the knowledge you acquire.  Instead of thinking of ourselves and the work on our own plate, be conscientious of the bigger picture, the reporting community as a whole. Ask yourselves what am I doing to promote my profession?  What can I improve on?  How do others perceive me?  Challenge yourselves.  Let’s be proactive.  Sometimes it only takes one bad apple to spoil the punch.   

The online direct member voting for NCRA president/issues will be conducted on Thursday, July 24, 2008, after NCRA’s Annual Business Meeting.  To vote please make sure your NCRA contact information is up to date.    

If anyone is attending NCRA’s National Convention, please let us know what you learn so we can share it with our members.   

Thank you for your support, 

Nicole Omsberg, President, nlomsberg@msn.comRonelle Corbey, Vice President, rcorbey@spokanecounty.orgKimberly Saunders, Secretary-Treasurer, ksaundersrpr@yahoo.com or jameskim@cableone.net 

Friday and Saturday, May 16 and 17, 2008

Red Lion Templin’s Resort in Post Falls, Idaho

Day 1–Tentative Seminar AgendaFriday, May 16, 2008

Registration/Check in                                                     3:30 -4:00

Welcome                                                                               4:00 – 4:15

Idaho Historical Society                                                 4:15 – 5:15           

Honorable Judge Wilper and Dianne Cromwell                                                    

Dinner on own                                                                  5:15 – 6:30

Clarity Legal Software                                                    6:30 – 8:00               

Software for court reporters and attorneys

Deputy Dan Jordan                                                          8:00 – 9:30

The A.I.R. of Personal Safety and Preventing victimization

VendorsStenograph, Clarity Legal Software, Deputy Dan Jordan

*************Speakers subject to change *********************

Day 2 – Tentative Seminar AgendaSaturday, May 17, 2008

Continental Breakfast                                                     8:30 – 9:00

Kootenai Medical Center                                                 9:00 -10:30               

Susan Hillenbrand Herbst, Oncology Clinical Nurse

Break                                                                                     10:30 – 10:45

Special Agent Michael Sotka                                        10:45 – 12:00

Catered Lunch                                                                    12:00 – 1:00       

Case Catalyst Indexing, Dianne Cromwell            1:00 – 2:30

Business Meeting                                                              2:30– 3:30

Break                                                                                     3:30-3:45

Deputy Dan Jordan                                                          3:45 – 5:15

Magic to Balancing Stress

**** *****Anticipated CEUs for both days = 1.05***********

March 7, 2008

Dear Court Reporters,

It is that time of year again, time for the Idaho Court Reporters Annual Seminar.   We are very excited about this year’s seminar, especially since it will be held in beautiful Post Falls, Idaho, at Red Lion Templin’s, right outside of

Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.   Attached you will find the Seminar outline and Registration form.  

ICRA has reserved a limited number of rooms at Templin’s government rates.   When making your hotel reservations, please specify that you are with ICRA to get the special rate.  Deluxe room, single occupancy is $71.00/night.  Deluxe room, double occupancy is $81.00/night.  Additional adult guest per room/night is $10.00.   Important!!  Hotel reservations need to be made by April 3^rd.  That is when the room block expires.  Call 1-800-283-6754 to make your reservations.  We have also been informed there is a softball tournament in the area the same weekend, so hotel rooms are expected to be scarce.

The approach to seminar planning this year was unique in the sense that we looked at it from the perspective of “What am I interested in?” realizing that we are more than court reporters.  We have strived to include some software training and stress management techniques along with some serious topics that affect most women, breast cancer. And, yes, men can be affected as well, as can the women in their lives.   We hope you feel the same way we do, learning comes in many forums.

Our hope is that we will have a great turn out and that everyone who attends can walk away having learned something useful and, in the process, invigorate themselves with a sense of community by coming together with other reporters.    

Nicole Omsberg, President; List Yant, Vice President; Kim Saunders, Secretary-Treasurer

ICRA May 16 & 17, 2008, Seminar Registration Form

Registration includes all seminar sessions/NCRA continuing education fees and specified meals Before May 10, 2008     ____     ICRA Member Registration  $ 125  ____   ICRA Student Registration    $   75____  Non-member Registration  $ 140

After May 10, 2007        ____     Late Registration     $ 140                ____     Late Student Registration      $   90

Donations:         ____     Recommended donation to ICRA    $  50                $_____    Total included Name: __________________________________________________  CSR No.: __________

Designations:   CSR ___   RPR ___    RMR ___ RDR ___ CRR  ____    STUDENT ______ OTHER ____

Mailing Address: ____________________________________________________________________________                   

Telephone Number(s):  Office ________________ Home: ___________Cell: ______________

E-mail Address: _____________________________________________                                                   

Reporter Type: Freelance ____    Official ____    Captioner ____    Other ____

SIGNATURE: _____________________________________  DATE:                                                   Make check or money order payable to ICRA and mail with this form to:

Idaho Court Reporters Association

Post Office Box 6038

Boise, Idaho

83707  (208)  454-7364

 

To Idaho Court Reporters:

The Oral History Project of the Idaho Legal History Society is committed to interviewing, transcribing, and filing 30 interviews of prominent lawyers and judges in Idaho in the calendar year 2008.  More than a dozen interviewers are poised to contact one or two lawyers over the next few weeks to schedule one to two hour interviews. A major concern is having advanced volunteer help to transcribe the interviews and prepare them for filing in the Idaho Legal History Society archives and at the Idaho State Historical Society.

The incredibly valuable help from the Idaho Court Reporters in this important project is greatly appreciated.  Those court reporters who volunteer contribute immeasurably to the project by recording and transcribing attorneys’ and judges’ personal stories about their careers and lives.  They also have the enjoyment of hearing and reading many of the colorful stories that will illustrate the significant lives of the storytellers.We are proceeding  with some dispatch on the interviews statewide so that more of Idaho’s rich legal history is not lost as lawyers age, forget some details in their personal histories, or worse.If you are willing to participate, please notify oral history committee member Dianne Cromwell: 

dcromwell@cableone.net , or one of the regional court reporter-coordinators (Sandy Beebe in judicial districts 6 and 7–sbeebe@cableone.net) .   Dianne has participated in several oral history interviews and completed the written transcriptions.  Court reporters Lisa Yant and Sue Wolf have also contributed to this project.  They can tell you what is involved, and the enjoyable experience they had.Your professional help with the legal history society’s oral history project will be greatly appreciated.  Thank you for your support.

Rita Ryan, chair
Oral History Project,
Idaho Legal History Society
February 14, 2008

Please contact Dianne Cromwell at (208)345-3704 or dcromwell@cableone.net to participate. 

ICRA SEMINAR

May 16 and 17, 2008

Friday and Saturday

POST FALLS, IDAHO

Hope to see all of our members at the seminar.  
Hotel information and seminar speakers forthcoming.

Nicole, Lisa, and Kim

ICRA Leaders 

View and print the Seminar Agenda and Registration Form.

The Seminar will be held on Saturday, June 23rd, 2007, at Tucker & Associates on Fort Street in Boise, Idaho.  You may earn up to .6 CEs for attending this seminar.  We look forward to seeing you there!

If you are not able to attend the seminar, please print out the Membership Application and mail it to ICRA with payment.

ICRA’s Membership is from June 1, 2007, through May 31st, 2008.

Membership in your State Association affords you and other Idaho court reporters with:

• opportunities to attend seminars
• network with others in the profession
• obtain CEUs for licensing
• an informative website

ICRA works with the CSR Board, NCRA, the Idaho Supreme Court and other legal and professional entities to:

• provide you information
• work on legislation regarding court reporters
• research

ICRA welcomes every court reporter’s input and participation!

Elections were held at ICRA’s Business Meeting at the seminar in January of this year.

Welcome to ICRA’s new officers commencing their postions June 1, 2007.

More information about your officers and group photos coming in June!

President:  Nicole Omsberg, CSR, RPR

(208) 287-7585

nlomsberg@msn.com

 

Vice President:  Lisa Yant, CSR, RPR, FCRR

(208) 334-9721 

lisayant@usa.net

 

Secretary/Treasurer:  Kimberly Saunders, CSR, RPR  

(208) 884-5640

jameskim@cableone.net

ksaundersrpr@yahoo.com

Kasey Redlich, CSR, RPR, Star, Idaho, and myself took off for Las Vegas to see if we could learn some new and useful StenoCAT 32 (Gigatron) software tricks at the StenoCAT Users Network (SUN) seminar April 26-28, 2007.

I can now (finally!) global an untranslate and/or fingerspell from my steno machine in realtime.  I was excited about finally understanding and being  able to apply the automatic  indexing feature to my transcripts.

It’s been said we only use 10  percent of our brains.  I think it might also be said that we only use 10 percent of our software features!

It was such a wonderful and positive opportunity to make friends and network with many reporters from around the country.  We had lunch as we attended the SUN Business Meeting.  G. Allen Sonntagg shared with us his TV appearance as a court reporter on “Candid Camera” a few years back.  Hilarious!  I’m going to try and get my hands on a copy of that to share with you!

 Vegas was a new experience for me.  What a crazy place!  The highlight of the trip was the M&M World store.  Four stories of M&M stuff!  We had a blast shopping there and left with lots of goodies!  Kasey and I had a great time and laughed a ton!

What’s great about court reporting is there are always new and exciting things to learn and techonology to apply. There are many wonderful people in our profession. Every time I attend a conference or seminar, I am re-inspired and excited about striving to be the best court reporter I can be!

– Tammy Hohenleitner, CSR, RPR

To my fellow reporters of Idaho:

What a blast Tammy and I had in Vegas last month. Not only did I learn some new moves on my trusty StenoCat software, but I learned what a wonderful reporter Tammy Hohenleitner is! What passion she possesses for our profession and for us as individuals.

The seminar was very educational and informative with many new things to learn on the new update. I appreciate and thank all who were involved in making the weekend a success!

It is always exciting to meet new reporters all around the country to share our stories and experiences with. It’s always good to learn that I’m not the only one who has undergone the unexpected when it comes to our profession. But knowing that we all stress over our jobs at times, when we come together as a group of reporters and uplift one another, it creates a more positive and energetic light in us all.

By Kasey Redlich, CSR, RPR