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Training School
Merrill Legal Solutions is the only organisation in the UK to maintain its own
stenography Training School.
Founded in 1988, the Training School has produced over 90 legal reporters,
editors and broadcast stenographers, with graduation rates in excess of 90%.
Last year, our graduation rate was 100%.
The course and graduation results are so successful that it continues to go
from strength to strength, with ex-trainees amongst the highest earners
within the court reporting profession. As a qualified stenographer, there is
the scope to be involved with many of the most high profile legal matters,
have a truly flexible working schedule, travel the world and generate
excellent earnings.
Overview of Court Reporting
Whether they work in court, at arbitrations, public inquiries, tribunals or
depositions, court reporters capture the words spoken by everyone during the
proceedings and prepare a verbatim transcript, either in real-time or after
the event.
Working at speeds of up to 250 words per minute court reporters use
stenography and computer software to translate the spoken words into text.
As well as being the official record of the proceedings, the transcript is
used by lawyers, barristers, judges and event participants to review and
analyse each day’s proceedings. With the very latest technology our
clients can receive back the transcript synchronised to a digital video, and
have all exhibit documents scanned and linked to the transcript when it was
referred to. This allows the reporter to be at the core of the official
record and to deliver a truly multimedia service to the clients.
A career at Merrill
Legal Solutions
We offer unique career prospects in stenography and subtitling. As the global
leader in transcription, stenography and subtitling, we operate worldwide and
cover events such as court cases heard in the Royal Courts of Justice
(London), the British Open Golf Championship; the Bloody Sunday Public
Inquiry in Ireland, to live subtitles of world news.
What are we
looking for?
If you are of graduate calibre, interested in the Law and possess excellent
English skills, can type, and are computer literate, we’d love to hear from
you.
All short-listed candidates are required to sit a 20-minute English paper
addressing specific points of grammar such as the correct use of
licence/license, affect/effect, principle/principal, discreet/discrete, etc,
and the correct application of punctuation rules (colons, quotes, semi-colons,
etc). This paper requires a 75% minimum pass mark before you can proceed onto
the typing, IQ and editing (proofreading on a computer) assessments. Finally,
we will call you back for an interview.
For further
information
For reporter enquiries - Contact: anne.kiss@merrillcorp.com
For existing
stenographers - train to LiveNote real-time standards of minimum real-time
accuracy of 98%.
Contact: trainingschool@merrillcorp.com
for more information.
For graduates - each
year up to 20 graduates are selected to join the graduate trainee reporting
programme, for which they will receive a training grant of £12,000. Contact: trainingschool@merrillcorp.com
for more information.
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