Welcome! It’s a pleasure to meet you. My name is Abbey. I have been scoping for the past four, almost five years now. My scopist training comes from Internet Scoping School; my interest and familiarity with the legal field and associated terminology come from my time working as a legal assistant in an employment law firm for four years and being a notary public.

Professional Experience

Employment Law Offices – Santa Ana, CA

Transcribed cell phone recordings; translated retainers, letters to clients, and contingency agreements from English to Spanish; proofread complaints, motions for summary judgment, discovery responses, attorney correspondence; maintained records and client files; maintained confidentiality.

Scopist – Self-Employed – Stanton, CA

Scope deposition transcripts and court proceedings for court reporters by cleaning up untranslates, filling in drops, inserting bylines, utilizing spell check and Case Catalyst Check It, listening to full audio to ensure all words and utterances are captured, flagging questionable areas, and inserting conflicts (^s).

I have scoped the following types of transcripts:

• Family law
• Medical Malpractice
• Interpreted Depos
• Expert Witnesses
• Criminal Proceedings
• Personal Injury

Notary Public – Orange County, CA

Notarize loan documents for homebuyers.

English Tutor for Speakers of Other Languages – Fullerton, CA

Edited and proofread essays, provided feedback to improve students’ grammar and syntax, conversed with students to help them improve their speech.

Education

Internet Scoping School

I completed the Internet Scoping School course, where I studied the following areas:

• Advanced Punctuation and Word Use
• Notereading
• Medical Terminology
• Transcript Production
• Case Catalyst Software Training

California State University, Fullerton – Bachelor’s of Linguistics

I also hold a bachelor’s in linguistics from the University of Cal State Fullerton. My studies in linguistics continue to help me in my scoping career. I studied the following areas of language:

• Phonetics and Phonology
• Descriptive Linguistics
• Structure of Modern English
• Changing Words
• Linguistic Fieldwork (We studied Hmong, a language spoken in Vietnam)
• Sociolinguistics
• Syntax and Morphology
• Historical Linguistics
• Anthropologic Linguistics
• Child Language
• TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
• Spanish
• Arabic

My second languages of study were Spanish and Arabic. I am bilingual in English and Spanish, and I can read the Arabic script.

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