I’ve been in touch with an attorney that is looking for potential New York plaintiffs to take on the unfair billing practices of court reporting companies, especially big boxes.
SPECIFICALLY, looking for someone in New York ripped off by a New York company OR potentially someone out of state ripped off by a New York Company. Or, of course, the New York office of a larger company.
Stuff like:
– Charge full price for copies
– Charge full price for word index pages.
– Page padding (using excessive parentheticals or bizarre formatting to make something many more pages than it needs to be.)
– Charge stenographer rates for digital court reporters.
-Tack on random fees, particularly of services that have not been ordered or requested.
-Use bills that aren’t itemized so it’s unclear what’s being paid for.
If anybody knows someone, we can push this issue, make it more public, and potentially achieve greater price transparency in court reporting, which would serve honest workers and the public alike.
Feel free to share this bulletin. Your share might be the difference between success and failure. That’s how it was with the legal claim against the National Court Reporters Association, and that’s how it’s going to be till the end of time.