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The National Leader in Court ReportingVeritext Legal Solutions Pioneers Sustainability in the Legal Services Industry 7 Apr 2025, 4:31 pm
Company continues its commitment to environmental and social impact initiatives
Livingston, New Jersey – April 7, 2025 – Veritext Legal Solutions, the leader in technology-enabled court reporting services and litigation support solutions, today announces ongoing sustainability efforts through the release of its 2024 Sustainability Report and an enhanced online Sustainability Center setting new standards across the legal services industry.
Led by a dedicated team, Veritext incorporates sustainability into its universal business strategy. By publicly sharing progress and aspirations, the company demonstrates its commitment to social responsibility, ethical conduct and sustainable operations.
Veritext’s comprehensive sustainability program is structured around four strategic pillars that merge corporate innovation, environmental responsibility and ethical business practices:
- Innovate and Deliver Outstanding Services: Further support the litigation and deposition professions by elevating industry-leading tools and client services
- Attract and Develop Talent: Cultivate best-in-class talent by promoting an inclusive and healthy work environment
- Build Climate Resilience: Reduce environmental impacts, mitigate climate change and conserve natural resources
- Operate Responsibly and Ethically: Continue to embed robust governance and accountability, focusing on ethics, data privacy and security
“Since our establishment in 1997, sustainability has been a guiding principle at Veritext. It informs every aspect of our business operations,” says Rich Antoneck, CEO of Veritext. “This initiative is a strategic investment in our future, paving the way for impactful and lasting societal change while continuing to deliver outstanding services to our clients.”
To learn more about the company’s sustainability initiatives and view the full 2024 Veritext Sustainability Report, visit https://www.veritext.com/sustainability/.
About Veritext Legal Solutions
Founded on a commitment to excellence, Veritext has become the trusted partner and established market leader in litigation technology and legal service solutions for law firms, government agencies and enterprise corporations. Veritext focuses on the unique needs of each member of the legal team and provides access to innovative technologies and remote solutions, unsurpassed data security, the highest-quality network of reporters and legal videographers, unmatched expertise in multiparty and complex litigation and state-of-the-art conference space across North America. At Veritext, we focus on the details—so legal teams can focus on the case.
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Women’s History Month 2025 19 Mar 2025, 9:04 pm
ABOUT WOMEN‘S HISTORY MONTH & INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY (IWD)
Women’s History Month: How it was born and why it’s observed in March | JUST THE FAQS
WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
ABOUT WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
In the United States, March is designated Women’s History Month by presidential proclamation and commemorates and encourages the study, observance, and celebration of the vital role of women in American history.
Women’s History Month began in 1978 as a local Women’s History Week celebration in Santa Rosa, California. The organizers selected the week of March 8 to correspond with International Women’s Day. In 1980, a consortium of women’s groups and historians—led by the National Women’s History Project (now the National Women’s History Alliance)—successfully lobbied for national recognition. In February 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued the first Presidential Proclamation declaring the Week of March 8th, 1980 as National Women’s History Week. It wasn’t until 1995 that proclamations designated the entire month of March as Women’s History Month. Source
The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution, and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum have joined in commemorating and encouraging the study, observance, and celebration of the vital role of women in American history. You can see their contributions here.
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
ABOUT INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, MARCH 8TH
On International Women’s Day, the United States is proud to join the global community in celebrating the achievements and contributions of women and girls from around the world, while simultaneously recognizing the barriers they continue to face. Source
International Women’s Day (IWD) has been observed since the early 1900s – a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies. View the timeline!
As individuals, we can all take steps in our daily lives to positively impact women’s advancement.
We can call out stereotypes, challenge discrimination, question bias, celebrate women’s success, and so much more. Additionally, sharing our knowledge and encouragement with others is key.
Impactful organizations and groups across the world continue to deliver an array of effective strategies, resources, and activities that help #AccelerateAction in many areas including:
- forging women’s economic empowerment
- recruiting, retaining and developing diverse talent
- supporting women and girls into leadership, decision-making, business and STEM
- designing and building infrastructure meeting the needs of women and girls
- helping women and girls make informed decisions about their health
- involving women and girls in sustainable agriculture and food security
- providing women and girls with access to quality education and training
- elevating women and girl’s participation and achievement in sport
- promoting creative and artistic talent of women and girls
- addressing further areas supporting the advancement of women and girls
WOMEN’S DAY IN CANADA
WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH | CANADA
In 1992, the Government of Canada designated October as Women’s History Month, marking the beginning of an annual celebration of the outstanding achievements of women and girls throughout Canada’s history.
This year’s theme, Women at Work: Economic Growth Past, Present and Future, highlights the significant contributions women have made to the workforce throughout history, and the critical role they continue to play in driving economic innovation and progress that has benefited Canada as a whole.
At this link, you can see a timeline of notable moments in Canadian History in their journey for gender equality, including 1929 when women were finally declared ‘persons.’
This link takes you to an overview of the ‘trailblazers’ of Canada. One not mentioned is Georgiana Alexandrina Fraser, who was Canada’s first female journalistic stenographer. She blazed a trail by inspiring and teaching more young women to do the same, and the struggle of two of them is described in this Maclean’s article from 1954:
“SEVEN years ago, two energetic but penniless young women freshly out of His Majesty’s services were suddenly faced with the sobering [a]nd dismaying realization that they were once [a]gain living in a man’s world.
Ethel Zatyko and Rena Pettypiece had taken a twelve-month course in the hope of becoming court stenographers. They decided to pursue their chosen vocation in Alberta, which they regarded as a province of oil booms and millionaires. They wrote letters of application to court officials. But when the answers came, their hopes were dashed: the RCAF might recruit women wireless operators, but Alberta doesn’t allow women court reporters.
The girls were stunned and indignant, but never tearful.
They decided to go to Alberta anyway and show what women can do.”
NOTABLE WOMEN THROUGHOUT HISTORY IN THE LEGAL SPACE
Alice Sanger
The stenographer for President Benjamin Harrison, and the first woman to be employed at the white house in an office position.
After meeting Benjamin Harrison while working at a law firm, Alice Sanger became the first woman to join the official White House staff in 1890. As his personal secretary and stenographer, she was famed for her discretion and trustworthiness when it came to the many political secrets she was privy to. Later in life, she would be the woman to originate the official US holiday, Flag Day.
Elizabeth Freeman
First enslaved woman to successfully file a lawsuit for her own freedom.
Elizabeth Freeman, formerly known as Mum Bett, was an enslaved woman in the household of a prominent revolutionary during the peak of America’s fight for independence. After having heard prominent speeches on the subject of liberty and freedom being written and read aloud in her household, Elizabeth bravely set out to sue for her own liberation. She became the first African American to argue for and win her freedom in an American court of law. Her case set the precedent for “freedom suits” in Massachusetts, which effectively ended slavery in Massachusetts in 1781.
Delia Opekokew
First First Nations woman lawyer to ever be admitted to the bar association in Ontario and in Saskatchewan.
Delia Opekokew is a Cree lawyer and writer from the Canoe Lake First Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada. She was the first First Nations woman lawyer to ever be admitted to the bar association in Ontario and in Saskatchewan, as well as the first woman ever, to run for the leadership of the Assembly of First Nations. Delia Opekokew experienced residential schools first hand during her childhood, at both Beauval Indian Residential School and Lebret Indian Residential School. Delia Opekokew is an accomplished women in the field of Indigenous activism and has paved the way for numerous Indigenous women to follow in her footsteps. She has received many awards, including; The Aboriginal Achievement Award, Women’s Law Association of Ontario Presidents award, Law Society of Ontario Medal and Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations Lifetime Achievement Award.
Fadwa A. Hammoud
First Muslim Arab American woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court and the first Arab American Solicitor General in the United States
Fadwa Hammoud began her career as a clerk for a U.S. District Court Judge, before becoming a prosecuting attorney for Wayne County, Michigan. In 2016, she became Michigan’s Solicitor General, making her the first Arab-American to hold that title. In this role, she served as head of the Flint water crisis investigations. In 2021, Fadwa would argue Brown v. Davenport before the Supreme Court, making her the first Muslim Arab-American woman to do so. She currently serves the state of Michigan as Chief Deputy Attorney General.
Victoria Kolakowski
First Openly Transgender Person to Serve as a Trial Court Judge in the United States
Judge Victoria Kolakowski became the first and only openly transgender trial judge in the United States when she was elected to the Alameda County Superior Court in November 2010. Judge Kolakowski is a former President of the International Association of LGBT Judges, and of the Earl Warren American Inn of Court chapter in Alameda County. She was an attorney for twenty-one years in Louisiana and California, serving as a sole practitioner, attorney in a small firm, as general counsel for a publicly-traded company, as a senior government utility regulatory attorney, and as an administrative law judge for two different California agencies. As a judge, she has served in both civil and criminal trial assignments. She recently completed a year as the Supervising Judge of the Collaborative Courts, with subject matter oversight over all of the treatment courts (drug, behavioral health, veterans’, etc.) in Alameda County.
Jane Bolin
First African-American woman to graduate from Yale Law School, to join the New York City Bar Association, to join the New York City Law Department, and to serve as a judge in the United States.
Jane Bolin was born in Poughkeepsie, New York on April 11, 1908. She was the daughter of Gaius C. Bolin, a lawyer and the first black person to graduate from Williams College. At 16, she enrolled at Wellesley College where she was one of only two black freshmen. Bolin graduated in the top 20 of her class in 1928.
Although Bolin was strongly discouraged from applying to Yale Law School due to her race, she was admitted and graduated in 1931 as the first black woman to receive a law degree from Yale. She then went on to become the first black woman to join the New York City Bar Association in 1932.
On July 22, 1939, Mayor of New York City, Fiorello La Guardia, appointed Bolin as a judge of the Domestic Relations Court, making Bolin the first black woman to serve as a judge in the United States. Bolin proceeded to be the only black female judge in the country for twenty years.
Clara Brett Martin
Canada’s First Woman Lawyer
The legal pioneer for women was Clara Brett Martin. Clara was duly called to the Ontario bar and received her LL.B. in 1899 after the term ‘person’ was amended by the Law Society to included women.
She sadly died at age 49 and did not see the ripple affect she had for the women who followed. Still today women in Canada make up 40% of the law profession.
Ella Maria Ballou
First woman to be appointed as the Official Reporter of a county court in Vermont, and is believed to be the first woman to hold that title in the United States.
After leaving her vocation as a teacher, and becoming extremely proficient in shorthand, Ella began writing out cases in courts. Before long, lawyers took notice of her efficiency and attention to detail. In 1885, she was unanimously voted to be the official court reporter for the Rutland County Court by a Vermont Supreme Court Judge. Shortly after, she was appointed to that same position in the neighboring county, Addison. Ella is largely believed to be the first woman to hold such a title in the United States.
Kim Campbell
Canadian politician, diplomat, lawyer, and writer who served as the 19th prime minister of Canada
While lasting only a few short months in 1993, lawyer Kim Campbell served as the 19th Prime Minster of Canada. She has been the only woman to hold that post to date. Prior to becoming the final Progressive Conservative (PC) prime minister, she was also the first woman to serve as minister of justice in Canadian history and the first woman to become minister of defence in a NATO member state.
Victoria Kolakowski
Former Justice of both the Supreme Court of Canada, and the Ontario Court of Appeal
Louise Arbour is a former Justice of both the Supreme Court of Canada, and the Ontario Court of Appeal. She then took on the role of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and was the former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia, and for Rwanda. As Chief Prosecutor, she made history in at least two respects: 1) by being the first to prosecute sexual assault under the Articles of Crimes Against Humanity; and 2) by criminally indicting a sitting head of state, the Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic.
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Veritext Legal Solutions Introduces AI-Generated Smart Summaries for Arbitrations, Hearings and Court Trials 18 Mar 2025, 6:00 pm
Livingston, New Jersey – March 17, 2025 – Veritext Legal Solutions, the leader in technology-enabled court reporting services and litigation support solutions, announces a new development for its suite of Smart Summary offerings. The popular AI-generated transcript summaries will now be available for the additional proceeding types of hearings, arbitrations and court trials.
This forward-thinking AI-driven transcript summary is a powerful tool for the fast-paced, daily review that occurs in hearings, arbitrations and court trials.
Benefits include:
- A Quickly Delivered Editable Transcript Summary of the Proceeding – Great for Preparation and Strategy for Back-to-Back Events: Clients canprepare swiftly for the next day of future hearings, testimony and sessions—developing strategy at the fast pace customary for these proceeding types.
- Simplification of the Review Process with Key Information: Smart Summary provides digestible details in a quick-to-absorb format that simplifies the review process, whether for a paralegal, attorney, arbitrator or judge.
- Clear and Accessible Details:Smart Summary provides an easy-to-grasp breakdown of complex information in understandable terms that may be helpful for any nonexpert attendees.
- Legal Team Communication:Smart Summary is the perfect way to quickly inform colleagues who couldn’t attend proceedings about critical details so that they can weigh in on strategy or be prepared for the next day of negotiating.
“We understand that hearings, arbitrations and court trial proceedings can span several consecutive days and are conducted at a fast pace,” states Mike Murray, Veritext’s director of technical and creative solutions. “For that reason, Smart Summaries are now available for these proceeding types, allowing legal teams and judges access to an AI-generated transcript summary that can aid in preparation and case review for the next day’s proceedings.”
Smart Summary comes in several editable and convenient formats including page-line, chronological paragraph (typical for insurance litigation) and topical paragraph (typical for workers’ compensation litigation). It is available for both rough draft transcripts as well as certified transcripts. It was first released in late 2024 with the goal of making the lives of legal teams easier by saving time, increasing efficiency and enhancing the review process.
For more information on Veritext and Smart Summaries, visit www.veritext.com.
About Veritext Legal Solutions
Founded on a commitment to excellence, Veritext has become the trusted partner and established market leader in litigation technology and legal service solutions for law firms, government agencies and enterprise corporations. Veritext focuses on the unique needs of each member of the legal team and provides access to innovative technologies and remote solutions, unsurpassed data security, the highest-quality network of reporters and legal videographers, unmatched expertise in multiparty and complex litigation and state-of-the-art conference space across North America. At Veritext, we focus on the details—so legal teams can focus on the case
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Veritext Legal Solutions Sweeps First Place across Multiple Categories in the 2025 Best of National Law Journal Awards 11 Mar 2025, 9:03 pm
Livingston, New Jersey – March 12, 2025 – Veritext Legal Solutions, the leader in technology-enabled court reporting services and litigation support solutions, today announces the company has been recognized by the readers of the National Law Journal, taking first place and Hall of Fame placements in four categories.
The categories recognizing the company in top place include:
- Court Reporting & Deposition Service Provider
- Video Deposition/Production Service Provider
- Online CLE Provider
- Continuing Legal Education Provider
The annual readers’ choice rankings celebrate the most trusted legal service providers, helping legal professionals identify companies that consistently deliver superior innovation, quality and customer service. Companies receiving Hall of Fame recognition have demonstrated excellence by placing in the top three in their categories for three or more years within the past four.
“Receiving multiple first-place honors and a Hall of Fame induction from the National Law Journal’s Best Of Awards is nothing short of monumental for our organization,” says Rich Antoneck, CEO of Veritext Legal Solutions. “What makes this recognition so meaningful is that it is directly driven by feedback from our clients, who rely on us every day. It’s a testament to the dedication of our team and our commitment to empowering the legal community with cutting-edge legal solutions and top-tier educational resources.”
Founded on a mission to redefine the litigation support landscape, Veritext continues to set new industry standards by offering:
- Access to the most secure, precise and innovative technologies available.
- A robust network of skilled reporters to be the guardian of the record and state-of-the-art conference spaces across North America.
- Comprehensive solutions tailored to complex, multiparty litigation needs.
- Continuing legal education services that prepare legal teams for the evolving challenges of today’s legal environment.
For more information about Veritext and its award-winning services, please visit www.veritext.com.
To view the full Best of National Law Journal 2025 results, visit https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/best-of/2025.
About Veritext Legal Solutions
Founded on a commitment to excellence, Veritext has become the trusted partner and established market leader in litigation technology and legal service solutions for law firms, government agencies and enterprise corporations. Veritext focuses on the unique needs of each member of the legal team and provides access to innovative technologies and remote solutions, unsurpassed data security, the highest-quality network of reporters and legal videographers, unmatched expertise in multiparty and complex litigation and state-of-the-art conference space across North America.
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