Depos, On-the-Go

The time and money legal practitioners can save by using video conferencing to “attend” out-of-town meetings and depositions, makes the service very popular these days. But did you know the technology is going mobile? At PohlmanUSA Court Reporting, we have launched a new portable video conferencing litigation support service!

Like its traditional counterpart, portable conferencing allows multiple parties to communicate real time using a simultaneous, two-way video and audio transmission. This next generation of conferencing allows a video meeting to take place anywhere an internet connection is available – connecting up to four locations.

The process is simple. A PohlmanUSA specialist will visit the site of the deposition – be it across town or across the country – to set up the mobile video conferencing equipment that will record and stream the session live over the internet. Then all participants must do is simply join the conference from any internet protocol (IP)-capable location, equipped with video conferencing technology. For convenience, PohlmanUSA offers IP-enabled conference rooms in both St. Louis and Chicago – or we can find you one in any another city.

Significant time and cost savings are possible using portable video conferencing because, like traditional conferencing, the cost of travel and lodging is spared. With refundable plane tickets typically costing more than $300, plus daily hotel and car rental costing about $150 and $75 respectively, high-tech video conferencing can cut travel costs by more than $500 a day.

Other benefits are lower environmental impact (less travel) and the preservation of a key analytical tool – the ability of the attorney to see the physical reaction of a subject to a given question. Is the answer the whole truth or just a fraction of the truth? Another benefit unique to the portable format is the ability to interview critically ill and end-of-life witnesses from the comfort of their homes, nixing the need to travel to a location equipped with the conferencing technology.

Legal practitioners take note: advanced video conferencing is ready to go anywhere the internet can!