Harriet Brenner-Gettleman, CMRS, CRI
Agent, Instructor, President and Director of The Realtime Center For Learning
 Beginning
with her first freelance court reporting assignment in the
mid-1960s, Harriet Brenner-Gettleman, CMRS, CRI, has been on the forefront of
innovation in the court reporting field. Harriet has held a variety
of positions, from court reporting in court and in the freelance
field to owning an agency and a court reporting school, to serving
as vice president of one of the largest court reporting companies in
the country. There she was in charge of training, management and
quality control of seventy-five reporters, writing the company's
format book, instituting an intern program, and a level system of
reporters based on their expertise, changing the industry's way of
scheduling work for court reporters.
Harriet is a lifelong learner and a born educator. Her teaching
experience includes several schools such as the Verbatim Court
Reporting School and the
Academic Business Institute,
private court reporting tutoring, and realtime court reporting
teacher for BOCES of Nassau County, New York. She has taught speed
classes in which students received dictation at speeds ranging from
60 to 225 words per minute; created and taught deposition-court
procedures and four-voice classes; and trained inexperienced
reporters after completing their formal training. During her
extensive career, Harriet also developed and coordinated an intern
program for a multi-million-dollar court reporting business, which
she continues to oversee in her present company.
Seeing an urgent need for further changes in the court reporting
industry, Harriet made a decision to open a new kind of court
reporting agency, one that addressed the need for highly technical
computer-aided court reporting skills. Realtime Reporting, Inc. was
incorporated in May of 1997 and opened for business in January of
1998. She incorporated the intern program and level system to
create a highly-skilled workforce of reporters.
As president of Realtime Reporting, Inc., Harriet has cultivated
trusting, long-standing relationships in the legal community,
including attorneys, law firms, administrators, support staff, and
other professionals. Harriet
embarked on a mission to provide the legal field with the most
professional, courteous and experienced court reporters available in
the industry, and to provide court reporters with an everlasting
opportunity for professional and personal growth through
state-of-the-art technology and a supportive staff to meet the
reporters' needs. Realtime Reporting, Inc. received the Long
Island Business News award as the Best Court Reporting Firm for the
years 2007 and 2008. As of October 2008, Harriet has retired from
Realtime Reporting, Inc. to pursue her ongoing dedication to the
training of new court reporters by focusing on Realtime Center For
Learning, Inc.
Harriet is an Agent, Instructor, Director and the President of The Realtime Center For Learning. She received her Certified Manager of
Reporting Services from the NCRA on August 3, 2001 and her Certified
Reporting Instructor on June 30, 2003.
Kathryn Dittmeier
Agent and Instructor at The Realtime Center For Learning
Kathryn Dittmeier has been a Stenograph Certified
Independent Training Agent since 1994, training Long Island, New
York court reporters on Premier Power, Case CATalyst, and CaseView
software systems. She developed Phoenix Theory and Case CATalyst
classes for Stenograph University Online (SUO), co-developed SUO's
Speedbuilding Online course, and has taught online court reporting
classes for Brown College of Court Reporting and St. Louis Community
College.
With a background as a realtime transcription agency owner, court
reporting school teacher at Midstate College in Peoria, Illinois,
and Stenograph's Education Program Manager, Kathy opened Steno
Solutions, an educational product development company for the
machine shorthand industry, in 1994. Steno Solutions provides
educational information and products for the field of machine
shorthand as well as novelties and gifts related to court reporting.
Kathryn has authored several textbooks including Getting Started With RapidWrite Pro, EZ Transcripts With Case CATalyst, Pocket Practice
Dictionary Building, Pocket Practice Numbers, Making Money With Your
Electronic Shorthand Machine, Learn To Use Case CATalyst, and also
authored the popular Road to Success audio tape dictation series.
Her articles have been published in the Journal of Court Reporting,
and she has been a seminar speaker at numerous state conventions as
well as the National Court Reporters Association Convention.
Kathryn is an Agent and Instructor at The Realtime Center For Learning.
Marianne Misiti, Instructor and Agent
Mary Anne Misiti began her career in court reporting in 1994,
initially with the Queens District Attorney’s Office as a Hearing
Reporter and subsequently with the Worker’s compensation Board. The
following six years she free-lanced mainly reporting bankruptcy hearings
and federal grand jury proceedings.
Because of her desire to work in court, she became a Provisional Court
Reporter in Brooklyn Criminal court in 2004 and continuously worked
there through 2008. While enjoying her role as a reporter, Mary Anne had
a desire to teach and began teaching speed classes at night at New York
Career Institute in 2006 and 2007.
After taking and passing the Court Reporter test in 2007, Mary Anne
decided to transfer to Nassau County. It was then, upon learning that
Realtime Center had a position available, that Mary Anne met Harriet and
learned that they shared an ideology as to what they believed to be the
future of the court reporting industry. Now that she has joined the
Realtime Center’s team, Mary Anne’s love of the field has been
reenergized by her highly-intelligent and motivated students who learn
the Phoenix Theory while applying realtime techniques from their very
first day. She is confident that when they complete their studies, they
will fulfill the strong need for qualified, competent and professional
reporters, whether as a court reporter, CART Provider or captioner.
Mary Anne maintains memberships in both the NCRA and the NYSCRA.
Joan Donnelly, Agent and Instructor
Joan Donnelly has been actively employed for over 30 years in the
court reporting field since graduating from Adelphi Business School in
1978. She has been a member of the National Court Reporters Association
since 1979 and is a Registered Professional Reporter (RPR), as well as a
Certified Realtime Reporter (CRR) and a Certified Reporting Instructor
(CRI).
After freelancing for several years at the beginning of her career, she
successfully passed the New York State Supreme Court test and was
appointed as an Official Court Reporter in June of 1982. She was
assigned to Queens Supreme Court, handling both criminal and civil
matters, until 1990 when she then transferred to New York County Supreme
Court at 60 Centre Street. In her capacity as an Official Court Reporter
there, she gained extensive experience reporting a wide array of
litigation, particularly medical malpractice and commercial litigation.
The majority of trials reported by Joan were delivered to the parties on
an immediate basis and reported in realtime. While employed in New York
County, Joan was elected to and served as a member of the Executive
Committee and was instrumental in resolving employer-employee related
issues.
After serving over 20 years in the Supreme Court, Joan moved on to the
teaching aspect of court reporting in 2004. She has been a court
reporting instructor at New York Career Institute in Manhattan for the
past five years. She has taught theory and speed classes in which
students received dictation up through 160 words per minute.
Joan has always taken an active interest in her students and believes
one cannot educate the mind without first opening the heart.
Joan has since joined the staff at Realtime Center For Learning and has
become a highly effective contributor to the administration as well as a
skilled teaching instructor.
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