Charles Dickens' early days as a court reporter in London's Parliament became a subplot in David Copperfield.
The court reporters in the O.J. Simpson trial took down more than 1 million lines of trial transcripts.
Actor Harvey Keitel began his professional career as a court reporter at Century Reporting Company in New York City.
The federal judge who later became the first commissioner of baseball began his career as a court reporter.
Actresses Michelle Pfeiffer and Kim Delaney once studied to be court reporters.
Court reporters have taken depositions or court proceedings of multitudes of the rich and (in)famous: Elvis Presley, Bill Cosby, Joan Collins, Jimmy Hoffa, Frank Sinatra, Isley Brothers, Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis, Muhammad Ali, Alex Haley, Michael Bolton, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Michael Jackson...
