And at the conclusion of this deposition transcript, the court reporter who will be taking down everything I say and everything you say or your counsel says will be recorded in a booklet.

I think this sentence is saying that I will be recorded in a booklet. Not sure how that works.

Any suggestions on how to punctuate this sentence so it says what he means?

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You're right. That's too funny. Gosh, that one's got me stumped. I'm sitting here staring at it and I cannot think of how to punctuate that to make it read accurately.

Can't you just change it to: At the conclusion of the deposition, the court reporter will record everything I say and everything you say or your counsel says into a booklet called a deposition transcript.
Unfortunately, videotaped. Can't go randomly changing things. And I don't like to change the attorney's words around, in general.
And just to clarify, I'm not an advocate of changing someone's testimony. This is not a witness's testimony and is only a suggestion to help the attorney out and make him sound a little more logical.
I would put a comma between say and everything.
I agree, I would type it with the dashes. I do verbatim transcription work and that's how I was taught to make "sense" out of a sentence such as this one or when the train of thought was broken, etc. . .

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