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Birmingham · Tuscaloosa · Since 1996

Birmingham
Reporting Service

Dedicated to our clients.

Court reporting, legal videography, trial presentation, and records management for Alabama's litigation community — for nearly thirty years.

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When the record matters, you need a firm that has been keeping it for thirty years.
— Dedicated to Our Clients
What We Do

Five disciplines. One firm.

Every aspect of the deposition record — from the moment the reporter raises a hand to administer the oath, to the day the certified transcript and exhibits are delivered to your office.

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Court Reporting
RPR-, RMR-, and CRR-certified reporters available for depositions, hearings, EUOs, 30(b)(6) testimony, arbitrations, and trial daily-copy. Realtime feeds to taking attorney's laptop on request. Rough drafts within hours.
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Legal Videography
ENG-certified videographers for depositions, day-in-the-life videos, and site inspections. Synchronized video and transcript with trial-ready clip generation. Multi-camera setups available for complex matters.
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Trial Presentation
Evidence-display system rentals and operators for trial. Exhibit boards, deposition-clip playback, ELMO document camera, and synchronized testimony display. Walk-throughs the week before trial.
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Courtroom Graphics
Demonstrative exhibits, timelines, and litigation animation for complex matters. Medical illustration, accident reconstruction, and document blow-ups. Coordinated with our trial-presentation team.
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Records Management
Secure deposition archiving with full-text search across your firm's history. Read-and-sign deadline tracking. Encrypted exhibit retrieval. Redundant cloud storage with on-site backup at our Birmingham server room.
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Client Portal
Twenty-four-hour access to your firm's transcripts, exhibits, invoices, and read-and-sign deadlines. Schedule new jobs from the portal. Approved counsel and paralegal access. Fully encrypted.
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Our Reporters

The people who keep the record.

Six of our seventeen certified reporters. Twenty-plus years average bench experience. Specialists in medical malpractice, complex commercial, and patent litigation.

Marsha Lin, RPR · CRR · RMR
Marsha Lin
Senior Reporter · 22 years
Medical malpractice, expert depositions, daily-copy trials.
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David Reyes, RPR · CRR
David Reyes
Senior Reporter · 19 years
Patent litigation, technical depositions, realtime to multiple parties.
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Diane Park, RPR
Diane Park
Reporter · 11 years
Insurance defense, EUOs, 30(b)(6). Tuscaloosa-based.
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Priya Anand, RPR · RMR · CRR
Priya Anand
Senior Reporter · 24 years
Complex commercial, securities, multi-week trials with daily-copy.
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Jordan Whitfield, RPR
Jordan Whitfield
Reporter · 8 years
Family law, criminal defense, juvenile court. Birmingham-based.
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Sam Calloway, RPR · CRR
Sam Calloway
Reporter · 14 years
Construction defect, environmental, regulatory. Realtime certified.
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Our Story

Founded in 1996.

Birmingham Reporting Service was founded with a small staff of certified shorthand reporters and one rule that hasn't changed: show up early, get the record right, and deliver on time.

Twenty-nine years later, we're the firm of record for hundreds of litigation practices across Alabama and the Southeast. We've covered everything from one-witness EUOs to multi-week trials with daily-copy turnaround. Our reporters hold RPR, RMR, and CRR certifications. Our videographers are ENG-trained. Our trial-presentation operators have set up evidence systems in every major courthouse in the state.

What hasn't changed: the same standards, the same commitment to the record, and the same firm name on the certificate page. Dedicated to our clients isn't a tagline. It's the way the doors stayed open for thirty years.

29
Years in business
600+
Firms served
2
Alabama offices
How We Work

Built for the way litigation runs now.

Realtime feeds, secure delivery, video sync, and AI-assisted archive search. The infrastructure your firm wants when the case is moving fast.

Realtime Stenography
Live transcript stream to taking attorney's laptop. Search, mark, and annotate as testimony happens. Optional read-only feed to co-counsel and remote attendees.
  • Stenograph Luminex II writers · CaseCAT translation
  • Liberty Live · Bridge Mobile compatible
  • Multi-party feed available — five parallel viewers
Synced Video
ENG-trained videographers with multi-camera setups for complex matters. Synchronized video and transcript delivered with trial-ready clip generation in MPEG, MP4, and DVD formats.
  • Sanyo HD broadcast cameras · external lavalier audio
  • Day-in-the-life videos · site inspection documentation
  • Trial-ready clips with embedded Bates references
Secure Delivery
No more email attachments. Encrypted client portal with role-based access for partners, associates, paralegals, and approved experts. Two-factor authentication required.
  • AES-256 encryption at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit
  • Read-and-sign deadline tracking with auto-reminders
  • Audit log of every file accessed by every user
AI-Assisted Search
Semantic search across your firm's complete deposition archive. Find every reference to an exhibit, a witness, a topic — across years of testimony — in seconds, not days.
  • Natural-language queries: "every contradiction by Smith on the meeting date"
  • Cross-deposition cite extraction with page:line precision
  • Witness behavior pattern recognition across multiple sittings
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The record is the record.
Every word. Every page. Every time.

Our certificate page hasn't been challenged in court in thirty years. We don't take that lightly — and neither do the firms who put their case in our hands.

Where We've Been

Case experience across every kind of matter.

Anonymized aggregate of the work that's come through our offices. We can't name names — but the firms know.

MDL · Pharmaceutical
Multi-District Pharmaceutical Litigation
340+depositions
14experts
9 yrsactive
Construction Defect
Commercial Construction & Defect Cases
180+depositions
22matters
6 yrsactive
Insurance Defense
First-Party & Third-Party Insurance
520+EUOs & depo
40+carriers
ongoing
Medical Malpractice
Hospital, Physician & Long-Term Care
240+depositions
18experts panel
15 yrsactive
Patent & IP
Technology & Trade-Secret Cases
90+technical depo
tutorialsdelivered
realtime
White Collar
Federal & State Criminal Defense
110+matters
NDUcleared
securedelivery
Labor & Employment
Title VII, ADA, Wage & Hour
320+depositions
plaintiff &defense
ongoing
Environmental
Regulatory & Toxic Tort
70+technical depo
EPAmatters
9 yrsactive
Family & Probate
Divorce, Trusts, Estate Litigation
460+matters
discreethandling
ongoing
By the Numbers

A track record you can read into evidence.

1996
Founded
Almost three decades of continuous service to the Alabama bar
RPR · RMR
Certified Reporters
Including CRR-credentialed realtime stenographers
2hr
Same-Day Rough
Draft transcripts delivered within hours of taking
24/7
Dispatch
After-hours and weekend scheduling for emergency depositions
Sample Work

What the record actually looks like.

Excerpt from a deposition transcript — the proper court-reporting format with line numbers, Q&A, and certificate footer. Delivered as ASCII, PDF, and E-Transcript on certified copies.

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EXAMINATION BY MS. HARTWELL (continued)
01
Q.Mr. Henderson, what was the date of the meeting at the Brookhaven offices?
02
A.I believe that was the third Tuesday of March, around four o'clock.
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Q.The third Tuesday of March of 2025?
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A.Yes, ma'am.
05
Q.And the meeting took place at four p.m.?
06
A.Approximately. It might have been a quarter after.
07
Q.Who else was at that meeting?
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A.Mr. Brookhaven. His CFO. Two members of his board.
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Q.And what was discussed?
10
A.The proposed acquisition of my interest in the Cahaba properties.
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Q.Did you reach an agreement that day?
12
A.A handshake, yes. The papers came two weeks later.
Reported by Marsha Lin, RPR · CRR · RMR — Birmingham Reporting Service · Job No. 2025-1042
From Counsel

Word from the bar.

Selected from a longer list. The firms we work for are the firms we've worked for, year after year.

We've used Birmingham Reporting for fourteen years and never had a transcript slip past their committed turnaround. That's the whole ballgame in this business.
— Karen H. · Hartwell & Reed LLP
Their realtime saved us a witness's contradiction in real time. We pivoted before lunch. That's what realtime is supposed to be.
— Sarah B. · Beaumont Litigation Group
When my paralegal calls Birmingham Reporting at 9pm because we have a 7am deposition the next morning, someone picks up. I cannot say that about anybody else.
— Tom M. · McKenzie Defense
Common Questions

What firms ask before they call us.

If your question isn't here, call dispatch at 205.326.4444.

What's your turnaround on a rough draft vs. a certified transcript?
Rough drafts ship within 2 hours of taking for standard work, often within an hour for short matters. Certified transcripts ship in 10 business days on standard turnaround. Expedite is available at premium rates: 5-day, 3-day, next-day, and same-day. Daily-copy on multi-day trials is delivered overnight.
Do you offer realtime feeds, and what platforms do you support?
Yes — every CRR-certified reporter on staff offers realtime. We support CaseCAT, Liberty Live, Bridge Mobile, and direct feeds to Stenograph viewers. Multi-party feeds are available for up to five parallel viewers including remote attendees over Zoom. Confirm at booking — we'll bring the right kit.
How do you handle deposition scheduling and cancellations?
Confirmation typically within 2 business hours; after-hours and weekend bookings within 30 minutes. Cancellation with more than 24 hours notice is no-charge. Inside 24 hours we charge a half-day appearance fee. Inside 4 hours of start time, full appearance fee plus any travel committed.
What format do you deliver transcripts in?
Every certified transcript ships as ASCII, PDF, and E-Transcript (PTX). We also produce condensed (4-up) and word-index versions on request. Exhibits are delivered as a separate exhibit packet, OCR'd and Bates-stamped. Video sync, where ordered, ships as MPEG with synchronized transcript timecode.
Are you available for after-hours and weekend work?
Yes. 24/7 dispatch at 205.326.4444. We routinely cover after-hours emergency depositions, weekend continuances, and multi-day trials with daily-copy. There's no surcharge to call us at midnight — only the standard expedite rate if you need rough or certified turnaround inside our normal cycle.
How does your secure client portal work?
Every transcript, exhibit, video, and invoice is delivered through your firm's encrypted portal — not by email. Partners can grant role-based access to associates, paralegals, and approved experts with full audit logging. Two-factor authentication required. Read-and-sign deadlines auto-track with reminders to your office and the witness.
Do you cover federal court, state court, and arbitrations?
Yes. We're on the court-approved reporter list for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Alabama, and we regularly cover state circuit and probate courts across the state. We also cover AAA, JAMS, and ad hoc arbitrations. Hearings, EUOs, 30(b)(6) testimony, and statements under oath all standard.
Can you handle protective-order or sealed matters?
Yes. Reporters and staff are trained on protective-order protocols, including AEO designation, NDU clearance, and sealed-record handling. Transcripts in protective-order matters are delivered to a sealed portal area visible only to designated counsel. We've covered confidential commercial matters, white-collar criminal defense, and family-law cases at the most sensitive end of the docket.
Where We Are

Two offices. One state.

Birmingham is our headquarters. Tuscaloosa serves the western district and university-related litigation.

Headquarters
Birmingham Office
3710 4th Avenue South
Birmingham, AL 35222
205.326.4444 · schedule@birminghamreporting.com
Mon–Fri 7:30a–6p · 24/7 dispatch
Western District
Tuscaloosa Office
2300 University Boulevard
Tuscaloosa, AL 35401
205.348.2300 · tuscaloosa@birminghamreporting.com
Mon–Fri 8a–5p · After-hours via Birmingham dispatch
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Birmingham
205.326.4444
3710 4th Ave S
Tuscaloosa
205.348.2300
2300 University Blvd
Email
schedule@birminghamreporting.com
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