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"AVLawDepot technology is mind-boggling. They can not only improve our practice, but also cut our costs and improve the delivery of depositions."
--Thomas Alan Schaffer, Esq. Utah Bar Ethics and Civility Chair

Hard Facts Rule in Your Client's Favor:
   AVLawDepot complies with state and federal laws allowing digital recordings and transcripts.
    There’s no reason your clients must continually suffer high costs for a stenographic deposition.
   Seventy-five percent (75%) of all responses are visual-- and won't appear in a transcript.

         1. AVLawDepot makes "One Touch" digital depositions. We create comprehensive, pushbutton, legal video depositions at a low, flat rate. This is legally-admissible evidence, sworn and witnessed under oath. Sealed, barcoded video recordings are delivered on the spot. They never leave your sight. Attorneys exit with certified HD video originals-- not duplicates. We type convenient transcripts of the sealed digital records via professionals in the United States of America. Each original is witnessed, created, delivered, authored, transcoded, sealed, timecoded, and certified admissible by purview of dozens of state, federal, and appellate laws-- and all administrative law, such as within the Department of Commerce and DOPL's rules, allowing recordings and transcripts to be made by non-stenographic means, without ever involving a stenographic court reporter.

         2. No surprises and no tricks. AVLawDepot's pricing is fixed at about 1/3rd of what you'd expect from court reporters. Your clients benefit. Flat rate means we don't gouge your client for "heavy" index or charge for exhibit pages. We don't charge extra for quick turn-around, production of HD video DVDs, delivery of audio files, provision of notary services, time, travel or fuel, etc. It's included. No add-ins. No 'gotchas.' No gimmicks. And we enforce a strict "no dudes" policy, too. You get a trained, impartial notary legal videographer-- no shaggy, scruffy "dude" in a black shirt glaring at your emotionally-frail deponent across a nest of wires and tripods. And only AVLawDepot delivers your sealed recording on the spot: Finished, authored, chaptered, certified, and ready to watch or edit. And we do it by hard, factual state and federal law, not mere hope for changed laws.

         3. The Guardian of the Record... IS the Record. Don't trust us-- replay! In 2010 we pioneered the delivery of sealed legal video depositions, precisely based on existing laws of the land-- and plenty of caselaw, too, running back to 1992. We alone lowered costs, efficiency, and accuracy by utilizing Utah's Electronic Reporting (ER) laws, now since 2009 the sole official record in virtually every courtroom. But you never have to trust us-- just rewind and listen! Digital electronic reporting, without the presence of machine steno court reporters, is used in 86% of U.S. courts (source: NCRA). No surprise either is the mandatory recordings of all interrogations at police stations and in police car dash cams because it "provide[s] courts the means to develop a complete, accurate, and objective record..." (Source: Utah Bar Journal) So our entire legal system-- state, federal, legislative, and administrative-- all depend on ER to make a better digital record. But AVLawDepot ensures your deposition record is pure. It's never cut or edited and you and your opponent get the very same original before you leave the room. Before the bench or in depositions, less-costly ER recordings will always be verified by replaying the audio. That is your failsafe "guardian"-- never reliance on skills of a human. Court reporters will never provide you that digital recording; since the 1880s they've insisted everyone must simply trust them; ignore their aging bodies, diminished hearing, or even a momentary distraction during a sip of water or whilst marking exhibits while intoning the mantra, "We [alone] are the guardians of the record." Even assuming that a phonetic stenographic coding machine is operated by a trustworthy person who somehow manages to capture 100% of everything the witness vocalized, their paper transcript will never tell the whole truth: Paper excludes witness facial expressions, emotions, and intonations. You might think the mark of the top-notch attorney is your argument, but your great argument-- without evidence-- is gutted in settlement talks, at summary judgment, directed verdict, verdict or on appeal.

Powerful evidence grabs the attention of jurors and fact finders... and it's never paper-based.

The Gold Standard of Digital Depositions
     1. Twice the deposition.
       2. With half the trouble.
   3. At 1/3rd the cost.

Seventy five percent (75%) of all responses are visual. Judges and juries want to see testimony sarcastically, jokingly, sadly, rapidly, haltingly, etc. versus dry paper written testimony. We record, preserve and defend-- equally and to all parties-- a superior level of digital testimony preservation prescribed by law.

TRANSCRIPTS, VIDEO, AUDIO, NOTARY, and TRAVEL are COMBINED: You get everything.

WE ARE NOT STENOGRAPHIC COURT REPORTERS. Instead, we give you far more: comprehensive digital preservation. We are duly commissioned, bonded notaries public witnessing the taking of a legal video. We adminster the oath of truthfulness. We record audio-visual (digital) recordings we personally attend. We seal and distribute unadulterated audio-visual originals to adverse parties. Then we employ American professionals to type, for your convenience, the most accurate transcription from that sealed record. AT NO TIME do we perform shorthand stenography, a complex, costly, and difficult occupation. Nor do we ever represent ourselves as certified court reporters, a licensed profession.

Our digital record IS the duly-noticed official record. Transcripts derive from the sealed record: CJA 04-0201 (Utah courts rely exclusively on audio-visual records and have eliminated previous requirements for recording a court hearing by a court reporter), and Hudson vs. Spellman High Voltage, 178 F.R.D. 29, 31, (E.D.N.Y. 1998) ("[t]he Advisory Committee Notes to the 1993 Amendment to Rule 30 reflect [an] intend that law office personnel, rather than an independent stenographer, will most likely prepare the typed transcript of those portions of the audio or video deposition which counsel intends to introduce at trial")

Home Grown in Salem, Utah, USA where true value and honest service is the rule. Always.