When a client court reporting firm from Philadelphia called us and asked if we could cover 3 days of depositions in London with Led Zeppelin, we were glad to help. The case which has been well publicized all around the World both before and since the verdict concerned the potential infringement of copyright from a segment of the track ‘stairway to heaven’.

Aside from the standard videotaping and transcribing the deposition we also had to make sure that the audio for Live acoustic guitar played by Jimmy Page and playback of pre recorded music from performances were captured in broadcast quality without a hitch, as there is never any second take in a deposition scenario. Our Videographer, Gerlando handled this with his customary cool professionalism. Being 26 years old he had never heard of Led Zeppelin, although our court reporter certainly had. She was absolutely walking on air at having the opportunity to spend a whole day each, in the company of Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones.

To listen to Robert Plant and Jimmy Page recount their experiences touring in the USA in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s was a privilege but to see and hear Jimmy Page play segments of the guitar solo in a deposition was truly unforgettable.

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European Deposition Services is delighted to be providing expert Court Reporting and Transcription for the prestigious World Bank Group.

The World Bank Group is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of poorer countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects.  The headquarters are in Washington, D.C. and they have more than 10,000 employees in more than 120 offices worldwide. They’re not a bank in the ordinary sense but a unique partnership to reduce poverty and support development comprised of five institutions managed by their member countries.

We’re proud to be working with an organisation providing a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world.

We often are presented with challenges by clients that require novel solutions. One such instance was last year, when we were covering a large Cell phone Patent litigation with depositions taking place simultaneously in Germany, Finland and the UK. The challenges were 2 fold; the data-heavy electronic exhibits needed to be shared amongst the teams in real-time along with the witness testimony relating directly to small segments of computer code buried within thousands of pages of computer code. Coupled with the fact that the locations internet connection was unreliable!

We decided to use in the deposition a Vision mixer. This captured both a high resolution image from the witness computer and the computer code whilst simultaneously videotaping the witness Picture in Picture. This gave the advantage of being able to have both the witness audio/video and relevant part of the exhibit to be securely streamed simultaneously to Attorney colleagues in other countries. We also provided an unlimited wireless 4G high speed data dongle in order to stream the deposition. The videographer and Court reporter arrived at the location the day before the deposition in order to set- up and test the system so that it would all run seamlessly on the day.

The depositions ran successfully and we now use a vision mixer coupled with either a visualizer (Digital Elmo) or computer regularly. Indeed the Paralegal on this job has congratulated us on the fact that the PIP footage we provided from that job have saved the client thousands of dollars in Post-production that they would have had normally spent in preparing the footage for trial.

European Deposition Services were contracted to live stream the annual World Business Summit in Milan.

We produced the official transcript of former President Clinton’s keynote speech to 5,000 of the most influential business executives in the world.

When you need to trust completely that a one-time event needs to be captured the first time and done right – EDS are the only people to contact.

We were contacted on a Friday morning by a US paralegal asking if we could get to a remote village on mainland Greece and deliver the video and Final for presentation in Court on the Monday morning in Philadelphia.

We arranged for the videographer Gerlando and Thelma the Court reporter to fly out that day to Athens, spend the night in Athens and then hire a car and drive for 3 hours to take the deposition with the attorneys attending telephonically. We uploaded the final transcript synchronised with the video by Sunday morning US time – job completed ahead of time.

Thelma and Gerlando even had time to take some snaps en route!!