Video Conferencing
Asheville Reporting Service offers full-service videoconferencing on site. Depositions, expert consultations, partner meetings, client and co-counsel conferences, witness/trial preparation, arbitration, negotiations, settlement proceedings and recruitment interviews are only a few of the uses of videoconferencing. We will be happy to arrange all of the details of your conference and let you enjoy a hassle-free, travel-free experience, whether you are in Asheville or out-of-town. Just tell us when and where, we’ll do the rest. This includes locating and booking a satisfactory far-side location and coordinating ALL the details, so that your firm doesn’t have to deal with it.
Video Conferencing: Just Like Being There
Imagine taking the deposition of an expert witness in Seattle or New York City or even Bejing or Dubai at 1:00 in the afternoon and then making it home right there in your own hometown in time for dinner with the family! This without ever stepping foot on a plane.
Videoconferencing makes it possible. It is the perfect solution for dealing with the hassle and high cost of travel, and the pressure of deadlines that exist in the legal industry. Depositions, expert witness testimony, co-counsel conferencing, trial preparation, contract negotiations - these are just a few examples of why the legal world is ideally suited for the videoconference technology.
The alternatives to videoconferencing are either traveling to where the other party is or talking by telephone. Travel is time-consuming, frustrating, and expensive. “Cost and time savings are the most beneficial characteristics of videoconferencing,” according to Judge James Twedt. “It allows us to turn our flying time into working time.” And a phone conversation can be impersonal and artificial, not allowing for the effects of body language and expression. By utilizing videoconferencing, a face-to-face discussion can be conducted from virtually anywhere in the world to anywhere else, and at a fraction of the cost, with uncompromising quality.
There is nothing complicated about videoconferencing either. Placing an ISDN videoconference call is much like placing a regular phone call. From the videoconference site, your call is dialed and connected to the far-end site where the other party is located. On a TV screen or monitor you see one another in color, you speak in a natural tone and volume, and at a normal pace. There is no distracting time lag. Within moments of your first videoconference being under way, you forget you’re not in the same room. Rather than being on a TV screen at the end of your conference table, it’s as if the person to whom you are talking is seated there in the room with you. It truly is just like being there.
Videoconferencing has and will continue to have a profound effect on the legal profession. It offers an affordable, convenient solution that makes it an industry leader in the legal field.
Travel vs. Video Conferencing
Cost Comparison
Videoconferencing costs range from $220 to $550 an hour, depending on your needs. This can include space rental at just your location with the far-end providing their own videoconference room and calling in to you; or it can include the cost of both locations and the the ISDN charge for placing the call from your side. Traveling can cost more than double that, and even more so when your time is calculated into the equation. In today's electronic world, this is one technology that is reliable, efficient and cost effective.
