With over 30 years of court reporting experience, Ms. Neeson has been at the forefront of the advanced technologies of reporting. She was one of the first reporters in Canada to actively use and promote realtime reporting in the litigation setting. Upon starting her own business, Ms. Neeson expanded her interests to include realtime captioning for the hearing loss community.Ms. Neeson has served more than two terms as President of the Chartered Shorthand Reporters' Association (CSRAO). Her interest in court reporting issues resulted in her serving on the Ontario Government's Joint Committee on Court Reporting and the George Brown College Court Reporting Advisory Committee. She has written and spoken extensively about the reporting and captioning field. Her articles have appeared in the Law Times (one of Canada's leading legal newspapers), Listen/Ecoute (a publication of the Canadian Hard of Hearing Association) and The Reporter (a publication of the CSRAO). She has also been a presenter at the Canadian Institute, the Canadian Bar Association, the National Judicial Council, the CSRAO, the Canadian Hearing Society and the Canadian Hard of Hearing Association. She has also been called upon to testify in the Superior Court of Ontario on court reporting issues. Ms. Neeson was again ranked as one of Canada's top 100 women entrepreneurs by Profit Magazine, recognizing the growth the company has experienced under her leadership the last three years (2008-2010).
Currently Ms. Neeson is a member of the Chartered Shorthand Reporters' Association of Ontairo, The National Court Reporters' Association (USA), The Canadian Association of Stenotype and Stenomask Technologists, DepoSpan (USA), the Society for the Technological Advancement of Court Reporting (STAR - USA), the Ontario Court Reporters' Association and the international group INTERSTENO.
Ms. Neeson is a Registered Professional Reporter, a Certified Realtime Reporter, a Chartered Shorthand Reporter, a Certified CART Provider and a Certified Broadcast Captioner, and was recently awarded NCRA's Certified Realtime Administrator designation in July 2011.
| Court Reporting: R. v. Ernst Zundel R. v. Bernardo (private retainer) In the matter of Stephen Truscott - (for the Hon. Fred Kaufman Report & Court of Appeal hearing) In the matter of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery Works in Dispute (Realtime Arbitration and Appeal - Fredericton) In the matter of Romeo Phillion (Court of Appeal hearing) Andersen v. St. Jude Medical (Realtime Streaming Superior Court Trial) Gallo v. Government of Canada (International Tribunal under NAFTA) |
Captioning/CART:
Federal Government's Task Force on Disability Issues Private International Arbitration conducted under Canada's Controlled Goods Program Barrack v. Xstrata et al |