Do you love language? Are you looking for an exciting and challenging career? Do you  enjoy working with technology? Choose court reporting as a career. Your potential is unlimited!

Real Time Court Reporters are in high demand by courts and court reporting firms. As a freelance Court Reporter, you can work the hours you choose and guide your business toward success. Check out the Entrepreneurship section for help in starting your own free-lance business.

Macomb College's Real Time Court Reporting and Captioning program : Is recognized by the Department of Education as an approved prerequisite for the Certified Shorthand Reporting Examination

• Prepares you to become a professional real time court reporter
• Provides training for television captioning for the hearing impaired
• Prepares the students to become educational reporters

For more information about careers in Court Reporting call 586.226.4572 or email kandts@macomb.edu.

 National Court Reporters Association specific requirements for judicial reporting students:

• The student shall pass three 5-minute tests with 95% accuracy at each of the following speeds: 225 wpm, testimony (two-voice),200 wpm jury charge, and 180 wpm literary.
• The student shall complete at least 40 verified hours of internship.

 Captioning Standards Option-minimum standards:

• Write a 5-minute, 180 wpm literary take with 1.4 syllabic density at 96% accuracy.
• Prepare a captioned translation of one-hour captioning services for course evaluation taken from the internship experience.
• The student shall complete at least 40 verified hours of actual writing time during internship.

Testimonials: "Throughout my years of practice as an attorney and now as a Judge, I have had the opportunity to employ and work with the graduates of Macomb County Community College Court Reporting Program and have found them to be very educated, well trained and hard-working." The Honorable Douglas P. Shepherd, Macomb County District Court Judge.

"I am a litigator who has spent his entire 35-year career in Macomb County. Beyond a reasonable doubt, graduates of the Macomb Community College Court Reporting program stand out from the rest because of their professionalism, competency and always timely work product. If a person is considering a career in court reporting, the step to success would be to enroll at Macomb Community College." Charles Trickey, III