Our management team has decades of experience in providing high quality courtroom services to the most complex and demanding trials, inquiries, arbitrations and depositions.

Graham Smith-Bernal

Graham trained as a court reporter and quickly realised that lawyers needed highly accurate realtime transcription and an easy means by which to mark, annotate and ‘digest’ it. He set up his own court reporting company to provide the transcript and created the LiveNote program to allow annotations in realtime. His company (Smith Bernal) went on to become the world’s largest international court reporting company and LiveNote is the most widely used transcript management program. He subsequently sold both businesses. He has now returned to the court reporting industry in response to requests from clients for a service based on old fashioned values coupled with the latest technology.

Douglas McQuaid

Douglas has worked in the legal technology industry for some 20 years, specifically in courtrooms for the last decade. When with Smith Bernal, he set up and managed complex installations such as the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, the Hutton Inquiry, the UN War Crimes trials and many criminal and civil trials. For the past two years he was Regional Director in the UK for FTR.