COURT REPORTING

Trade paper, 910 pages (4th ed., 2006)

This book is a court reporter's general vocabulary dictionary of approx. 64,000 conflict-free, mainly one-stroke briefs & phrases for realtime writing. Contains irregular verbs, principal parts of verb entries, arbitraries, punctuation, homonyms, special characters & more.

Windows Software (2006)

A searchable computer database of conflict-free briefs, phrases, irregular verbs, numbers and commonly used words. Based on the book “Brief Encounters” with elements of “CATegorically Speaking” included, searches can be performed by English or steno order as well as by words, phrases or combined. Users can add their own briefs via the "My Briefs" feature and optionally include these in a search.

Trade paper, 440 pages (3td ed., 2021)

A realtime dictionary/study guide for court reporters, divided into four parts: Grammatical Elements; Topic Categories (medical, deaf/hoh, geographical, computer and more); Numbers and Alphabets (numbering systems with/without number bar, 16 alphabet styles); Lexicon of Word Associations (incl. homonyms, antonyms, word families).

Trade Paper, 725 pages (4th ed., 2006)

This book is a court reporter's general vocabulary dictionary of approx. 64,000 conflict-free, mainly one-stroke briefs & phrases for realtime writing. Contains irregular verbs, principal parts of verb entries, arbitraries, punctuation, homonyms, special characters & more 

Windows Software (2006)

 A searchable computer database of conflict-free briefs, phrases, irregular verbs, numbers and commonly used words. Based on the book “Medical Briefs,” searches can be performed by English or steno order as well as by words, phrases or combined. Users can add their own briefs via the "My Briefs" feature and optionally include these in a search.  

Web-based searchable databases

BOUCKEBRIEFS.COM is our website dedicated to our court reporting materials, including the web-based versions of

• Briefs Encountered Pro
• Briefs Encountered Lite
• Medically Briefed Web
• Brief Me Up!

Because these programs are cloud based, they can be used with any internet-capable device; PCs, Macs, tablets, smartphones, Windows/OS/iOS/Android/etc.