Question regarding blurbs

[Cynthia S. Bicad]

I had a situation the other day where it was an interpreted depo. The defense atty is the questioning atty. However, a lot of times during the depo the plf's atty would interrupt the interpreter and start speaking to his client in his native tongue. So of course, the dfs atty and I didn't know what was being said. Do you guys think that I should put in a blurb every time this happened. It was often enough for me to notice and see that the defs atty was getting frustrated.
Help!!!! What should I do.

[Rosalie DeLeonardis]

FYI: I also put who the first person is who starts conversation, i.e., if it's the witness that turns to his attorney to confer I put ( Discussion between Witness and Mr. Attorney) or the opposite if it's the attorney who starts to confer I put as I did above (Discussion betwen Mr. Attorney and Witness). Don't know if I'm right or not, but this is the way I was taught.

A little off topic on the blurb, but when you take a depo in a different language and sometimes the witness will answer in English I was taught to put "A. (In English) and then whatever the answer may be. And of course I have the standard blurb at the beginning of the depo that states. "(Statements attributed to the
witness were made through the interpreter unless indicated "In English.")

[Rosalie DeLeonardis]

Usually when it's in a different language it's usually loud enough that we can hear them, and they don't say off the record, and I can't understand the language, so I was taught to put the blurb above. When an attorney is having a conversation with his client, and I can hear them, I will obviously write what I can hear unless they say off the record, but when they whisper and it's in English I put (Discussion betwen Mr. Attorney and Witness.) It's just to show what is happening during the depo when they don't say off the record.

[Rosalie DeLeonardis]

What I do in this situation is (Discussion in Spanish between Mr. Attorney and Witness.) And as far as when the attorney interrupts the interpreter I would put THE INTERPRETER: (Translates to Witness) -- (and I would probably use the dashes to show the attorney cut off the interpreter's translation, and then use the blurb above (Discussion in Spanish....)