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A Principal with Experience: Mary Sorene

I am pleased to announce the successful conclusion of my teacher-training course at Bedford College with a JEB Level 3 Certificate in Education Principles and Practice, Level 3 Certificate in Education Practice: ICT Skills and a Diploma in Education Practice: ICT skills.  15^th June 2005.

I began my Court Reporting career at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) in 1971, working for George Walpole & Sons and began training others in 1972. I became a partner there in 1979. Having attained a speed of 210 wpm in Pitman's pen shorthand and 80 wpm typing, I left the Old Bailey and started on my own in 1988 signing a five-year shorthand writing contract covering the Acton and Willesden Crown Courts. These courts later closed and we transferred to the new court at Harrow (Wealdstone) in 1992.

Mary Sorene

At this time I rose to the Lord Chancellor's challenge to retrain others
and myself on to CAT within two years. Having mastered several CAT and word processing softwares, in 1993 I began working as a freelance Verbatim Reporter and founded Sorene Court Reporting and Training Services. 

Under my guidance, students from Britain and from abroad have completed the training course and gone on to pursue careers in stenography and real-time reporting. Two of my former trainees have been captioning at the BBC and a third has returned home to California to be a captionist there. Others are engaged in various Crown Courts or private work. I have trained new Real Time Reporters for one London contractor and currently have students in Liverpool, South Wales and other parts of England via distance learning - ie in their own home.

I am a member and officer in several national and international shorthand and reporting associations. I am currently Chairman of the IPS (the oldest shorthand writing society in the world). We meet at the Bishopsgate Institute, London, on Monday evenings for shorthand practice. I am Secretary of the British Institute of Verbatim Reporters, having become a member there early in the 1970s. I am a participating member of the National Reporters Association of America and regularly check into their Court Reporter's Forum. I received an award of merit from the City of London Business News for Services to Training.

When I'm not working, training others, and striving to improve my own
note taking, I enjoy reading.  For a complete CV, inquire via email

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CURRICULUM VITAE
QUALIFICATIONS
Pitman's Shorthand Theory and speed certificates to 210 wpm
Pitman's Typing
Commercial Correspondence
Elementary Arithmetic
Elementary English
RSA WP 5.1 Stage 1, Distinction Stenograph Speed Certificate
160 wpm IPS Stenography Speed Certificate
170 wpm IPS Stenography Speed Certificate (1998)
180 wpm IPS Stenography Speed Certificate (1999)
EMPLOYMENT RECORD
1993 - to date	Freelance Verbatim Reporter
1988 - to date	Self-employed Principal of Court Reporting (CAT) appointment at Acton then Harrow Crown Courts (Initial Contract ended 31.3.93. Transcript Contract ends 31.3.98) Training student stenographers using StenEd Real time machine shorthand theory with GlobalCAT CAT software
1982 - 1993	Pen Shorthand Writer at Acton Crown Court
1988 - 1993	Retraining part-time on to CAT from June 1988
1971 - 1982	Pen Shorthand Writer at the Central Criminal Court (Qualifying as Member of The Institute of Shorthand Writers - Now the British Institute of Verbatim Reporters)