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Contact Information:
Aimee Cardoza
Director, Outbound Marketing
Courtroom Connect
770.399.0736
aimee@courtroomconnect.com

Pete Wacht
National Court Reporters Association
571.228.7346 (Cell)
pwacht@ncrahq.org

Alliance for Integrated Court Technology Offers Low-Cost Solutions
to Ensure a Productive Courtroom
NCRA, Courtroom Connect, RealLegal, StenoCast Demonstrate How Realtime,
Wireless Technology and Litigation Support Tools Benefit the Court and Taxpayer

(Vienna, VA, September 14, 2005) – The Alliance for Integrated Court Technology (AICT) represents the collaboration of the National Court Reporters Association (NCRA), Courtroom Connect, RealLegal, and Horizon Technical Consulting, makers of StenoCast, to demonstrate how court reporting excellence and high-tech innovations can merge to provide a low-cost, highly productive wireless courtroom that benefits the judge, attorneys, court administrators and other judicial participants. AICT will be offering demonstrations on how this technology can benefit the courts at their booth, #1001, in the exhibition hall at the Ninth Court Technology Conference (CTC9) Sept. 14-15, 2005, in Seattle, Wash.

“The Alliance partners are extremely excited to have this opportunity to come together and educate the legal community on the value of combining the skills of a highly trained realtime court reporter with wireless technologies and litigation support tools,” said NCRA Executive Director and CEO Mark J. Golden, CAE. “Putting into practice the combination of technologies and professional stenographic court reporting creates an advanced and productive courtroom environment that benefits all participants within a litigation setting.”

AICT represents four elements that combine to give you the cleanest, most productive and litigation-supportive wireless courtroom possible. The first component, and the center of this collaboration, is the highly skilled court reporter that offers the human touch and coordinates the hardware, software, internal and external connectivity, and litigation support that makes the entire court operation flow with ease and ensures all participants in court proceedings have access to the technology they need.

The second element of this partnership includes the incorporation of safe and secure real-time wireless connectivity to allow participants to read on a screen what is said during proceedings as it is being said, without the hassle of traditional wiring.

The third element represented by AICT includes technology that enables advanced communication, such as through wireless Internet connections, during litigation proceedings.

The final component of the partnership relates to incorporating litigation support software and technology solutions into the courtroom, which allows judges and attorneys to have immediate access to the proceedings, highlight and issue code the transcript, and perform a variety of other functions, all designed to enhance the judicial process.

The combination of all these elements offers the possibility of creating a streamlined courtroom facility with improved access to transcripts, supporting documents, and realtime testimony. Most importantly, it ensures that the official transcript is accurate, timely, and accessible.

About Courtroom Connect
Courtroom Connect is the leading provider of advanced communications for litigation proceedings including trials, depositions, mock trials and war rooms throughout the United States.  Services provided include Internet connectivity, networking, video conferencing, video streaming, real-time transcript streaming, and teleconferencing.  Courtroom Connect maintains permanent connections in over 40 major courthouses in states such as California, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia – and also provides a complete range of communications services on a temporary basis wherever litigation events occur.

Courtroom Connect’s CTC9 Participation
During the Ninth Court Technology Conference (CTC9) in Seattle, Wash., on Tuesday, September 13, 2005 at 10:00 a.m., the president of Courtroom Connect, Michael Breyer, gave a presentation on Leveraging Public Internet Connectivity at the Courthouse: A Case Study of the Delaware Courts and the in Re The Walt Disney Company Derivative Litigation (“Disney Trial”). He was part of a distinguished panel, including: Robert Denton, Acting Information Systems Manager, State of Delaware,  Judical Information Center; Richard K. Herrmann, Partner Morris, James, Hitchens & Williams LLP (participation via video conference); Cheryl L. Kingston, Information Resources Manager, State of Delaware, Judical Information Center; Mollie Nichols, J.D., L.L.M, Courtroom 21’s Associate Director for Research and Professional Education; and Edward G. Pollard, Jr., Chief Register in Chancery Court, State of Delaware.
Courtroom Connect also participated in the Courtroom 21 "Courtroom of the Future" presentation.

About the National Court Reporters Association
NCRA is the 26,000-member professional association for the court reporting industry. Its members include captioners, official court reporters and freelance reporters who are responsible for making verbatim transcripts of legal, business, government and educational proceedings. These proceedings include court trials and hearings, federal and state legislative sessions, depositions, arbitrations, business and union conventions, and numerous other meetings and events that require an accurate record of what takes place. Additional information on NCRA is available by calling 800-272-6272 or visiting their Web site at www.NCRAonline.org.