She's dead, Jim.
Really?
She needed rest.
About damn time! The mods are being very tolerant today.
Wow. She sure is.
One of my clients was accidentally pepper-sprayed just because she was nearby when a deputy had to put down a courtroom brawl...another was present when a defendant sliced his own attorney's cheek with a razor blade.
Even depos aren't always safe, although they're usually cut and dried...years ago `when I was a legal secretary a brawl broke out during a depo in our conference room. (Ironically I didn't know until I'd worked with her for years that one of my clients was the reporter who was in our law firm that day!)
I have immense respect for reporters, who perform reporting miracles, often during stressful situations. When I read trials it's always because they've been appealed...there's never any doubt in my mind the defendants are guilty. I like to think I'm doing a small part to help keep the creeps behind bars when I help a reporter make her transcript as perfect as possible, so defense attorneys can't poke holes in anything :).