Attorneys are psychic

[Kyung]

I swear attorneys can smell when you're going on vacation. They immediately expedite any and all transcripts. It's gotten to the point that the week before I go on vacation, I always ask the agency to see if they can find out if the attorney is going to want an expedite.

You'd think you could take a couple of days the week before and send the transcript off to the scopist and work on it when you get back. Especially if you're only taking a week. I mean, you've technically got two weeks to turn it around. But, no. Inevitably someone will want an expedite and I have to haul my laptop along and work.

Of course, it's happening again. And this time, I haven't even been taking a lot of depositions. So the attorney all of a sudden start calling for transcripts for days that I sat out court. Oy vey. I mean, I seriously had someone call me last week. They said they needed a transcript and that regular turnaround was okay so I didn't plan on starting it until I got back. I get an e-mail yesterday going, oh, we'd like to rush that transcript and get it as soon as possible. Egad!!!

How do they do it?

[Kyung]

I think it would be a 3-day rate, maybe a 2-day rate bump because they want it on Thursday by 10 a.m. and that means you'd probably have to turn it in Wednesday.