As a nearly 30-year veteran of the court reporting profession, I have had the opportunity to work in a variety of roles on a number of cases over the years while also building and growing my own north suburban Chicago court reporting agency. I am a licensed and registered professional court reporter and also certified in LiveNote, and have operated primarily in the Chicago area and its suburbs for the majority of my career. During my career, I've taken on a wide variety of complex court reporting tasks including highly technical patent litigation, medical expert testimony and municipal hearings. Like many of my colleagues, I worked for several different agencies before deciding to open my own suburban agency, Lake-Cook Reporting, which started as a single court reporter operating out of a home office, that has grown into a full-service court reporting agency along with an office complex complete with conference rooms and deposition suites located minutes from O'Hare Airport. We utilize over 25 experienced and certified court reporters to go anywhere and host a variety of depositions, meetings, and videoconferences at our expansive facilities. My goal has always been to give both the clients and the court reporters the best experience possible, and I've been able to shape this business I helped create into that image.