This formation of CIJ almost has the imprimatur that if you are not a member you do not believe in impartial justice. I dropped off this group of five or so firms at the inception when there was talk to introduce ethics into the equation. I never believed, and still do not, that a firm that discounts rates is doing anything unethical or inappropriate. As a matter of fact, to organize to keep rates high would violate various state and federal antitrust laws on price fixing, a practice which I never condoned as well. Veritext is a company owned and managed by sincere and honest people, people who are running a business, nothing short of trying to make a profit in an industry that has had difficulty so to do.
Court reporting is a business, a profession, a trade, an art.
Some of us are better at our art than others. Some of us are better at the business than others. And others have taken our profession and turned it into skilled labor. Vertitext has not done any of that. It has instituted quality assurance programs for all its offices.