Alice

They're like, ma'am, please slow down.

So here's a pro tip for practicing attorneys, but also something to adopt for our future court reporter friends.

This is a very good practice that an attorney long ago, I honestly can't even remember who taught me to do this.

And it's adopted by most lawyers, I would say, is when you walk into a courtroom, this is how you make friends.

You identify who the court reporter is and you immediately go over and introduce yourself if you're one of the attorneys who's going to be speaking and give them your business card so that they don't have to find out how to spell your name later.

Because oftentimes as the hearing is over, everyone's high-fiving each other or debriefing, you're running out of the courtroom, the court reporter's trying to run after you to say, Brett, how do you spell your last name?

And so you save them all of that.

And then guess what?

If they can take you down better,

They do.

They're just able to do their job better.

And so introduce yourself.

That's what I always do.

I come in the courtroom, put down my books early.

You should definitely be earlier than the judge.

Walk straight to the court reporter.

Introduce yourself.

Don't assume they remember your name because remember, they have to see so many people and they'll say, of course, I remember you, Alice.

But let them say, of course.

And I always hand them a card.