Oldest transcript

[Kyung]

What's the oldest transcript you got an order on?

I mean you took the proceedings down. No one asked you for a transcript. And then one day out of the blue, remember that transcript you worked on 20 years ago, we need it not. That kind of thing.

What's the oldest?

[Anthony D. Frisolone]

Oh, I'm still getting orders from when I started in state court in 1998. My oldest federal order was last month from February 2005, two months after I started. My co-workers get orders from way back, sometimes before they were on the computer and they have to copy their notes over so they can translate them on the computer.

[Kyung]

Yikes!!! Isn't that past the statute of limitations?

[Judy Gage]

We just had an order come in today for something from 1994. Hard to believe that is 14 years ago already. Our reporter had to try to think back to what system they were on in '94 and whether they had a backup!
I got an appeal notice today on a 1996 case. Don't know how that works, though.

[Kyung]

Once again, isn't this past the statute of limitations?

[Anthony D. Frisolone]

Nope. Statute of limitations usually pertains to charging people with crimes. If the person has already been indicted and the case is stuck in litigation then you can get orders for transcripts from way back. I'm working on a state court appeal from four years ago currently. So there you go, the defendant's case is in appeals litigation and so four years later here we are.

And actually that's the beauty of working in court: You may not get an order today, but someday it will eventually get ordered. Sort of like money in the bank.

[Kyung]

I meant I thought we only had to keep our notes for ten years or something.

[Anthony D. Frisolone]

Here in New York the state requirement is 50 years for criminal notes.

[Kyung]

Ugh!!!!

[Judy Gage]

Kyung, in Federal Court the requirement is ten years, but now days with computers and all, most reporters discard paper notes but keep their data files much longer than the required ten.