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Purpose The Association is committed to compliance with the laws and regulations to which it is subject and to promulgating policies and procedures to interpret and apply these laws and regulations. This policy governs reporting and investigation of allegations of suspected improper activities that violate laws to which the Association is subject. Employees who in good faith report the commission …
Categories: Policies and Procedures, Ethics and Business Practices
Document destruction It is the policy of the Association to destroy confidential and sensitive documents when the time period required to keep the documents has expired. In no circumstances, however, may any member of the Association’s Board or employee of the Association knowingly alter, destroy, mutilate, conceal, cover up, falsify, or make an entry in any record, document, or tangible obj…
Categories: Ethics and Business Practices
NCRA Document Retention and Destruction Policy The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires all corporations (including not-for-profit corporations such as NCRA) to maintain a written, mandatory Document Retention and Periodic Destruction Policy. NCRA has such a policy in place. NCRA Document Retention and Destruction Policy
Categories: Policies and Procedures, Finance, Ethics and Business Practices
Reporting a deposition where the witness is appearing by telephone (1999) Statement of Facts A Member has requested an opinion from the Committee on Professional Ethics regarding the following scenario: a reporter arrives to report a deposition where the witness is appearing by telephone. Although the reporter is not in the presence of the witness, there is a notary in the presence of the w…
Categories: Ethics and Business Practices, Advocacy
Statement of Facts A court reporter has requested the Committee on Professional Ethics (the “Committee”) develop an advisory opinion regarding the reporter’s duty under NCRA’s Code of Professional Ethics (the “Code”) in the following scenario: A reporter reports a deposition for Attorney A. At the close of the deposition, Attorney A orders the original and a copy. As required by …
Further Guidance on Gift Giving (2011, Revised 2013, 2017) Statement of facts The NCRA Board of Directors has requested that the Committee on Professional Ethics address several fact scenarios involving gift-giving in order to provide guidance to NCRA Members on complying with the new rules. Scenario 1 A court reporter makes a presentation at a luncheon put on by the local paralegal associat…
Should a Court Reporter Act as Both the Verbatim Reporter and the Videographer for the Same Proceeding(Originally written, 2006) Statement of Facts A freelance court reporter has requested an opinion from the Committee on Professional Ethics regarding ethics issues involved when a court reporter acts as both the verbatim reporter and the videographer for the same proceeding. Discussion The Commit…
Holding a Transcript Hostage (2001) Statement of Facts A member of the NCRA Board of Directors has requested an opinion from the Committee on Professional Ethics regarding ethical issues involved in the following scenario: The litigants in a case order a transcript and it is not produced because the court reporter and agency owner are fighting amongst themselves about payment for the reporter’s s…
Providing the official transcript of a proceeding to the hiring party (1999) Statement of Facts The NCRA Board of Directors has requested an opinion from the Committee on Professional Ethics regarding the following scenario: A reporting firm enters into an arrangement with the hiring party to provide the official transcript of a proceeding to the hiring party and not to sell copies of the officia…