I like to write on yellow legal pads with red ink. Here I am, sitting at the conference table, poised and ready to take lots of important notes about this very pivotal deposition. My job is to sit and listen. While sipping on coffee. It will be difficult and taxing, but I am working on being good at listening to conversations that do not include or pertain to me. I am a zealous advocate for my client. And I have on my favorite suit today. Clothes make a girl.

It is very rare that you get 5-10 people into one room to watch a question-and-answer session between

two individuals while it is tape recorded. Unless of course you go to a lot of depositions. Maybe that is the definition of a deposition: 5-10 people, one room, tape-recorded, question-and-answer session.

The tape recording is very complex: microphones, a court reporter with a mouthpiece, etc. The court reporter talks into the mouthpiece and repeats everything that is uttered by both sides of the table and takes notes (at least I think that is what was going on, I'm honestly not sure what she says into the mouthpiece). Apparently these people make a fair amount of money performing this task. I had a friend who used to get jealous and paranoid when her attorney boyfriend

had depositions with a court reporter he used to date. I wonder if court reporters get a lot of dates with attorneys. I find the mouthpiece rather unattractive, but it does accentuate a person's eyes.

It is nice to have the court reporter around because otherwise I would almost always be the only girl in the room. It's very strange; in law school there were as many men as women, but so far in my experience in the actual working legal world, men outnumber women tenfold. Especially in depositions.