as well as a special training on legal forms. In a corresponding ratio there is a high rate of remuneration. The stenographer who is ambitious and would reach the court reporter's chair, should have a special training on legal forms, words and phrases. The majority of court reporters owe their positions to the fact that they obtained their early training in lawyers' offices. Legal terms and phraseology are studies of themselves, and the forms in which the various documents are set out or drawn up call for special drill and expertness. From four to five carbon copies are made of all documents on the typewriter, and this style of writing necessitates absolute accuracy and fidelity in copying. Briefs and other legal documents are dictated and taken down in shorthand, and frequently to these are added long extracts from legal books which call for exact copying. The legal stenographer is often called upon to take shorthand reports of hearings, references, or examinations of witnesses. These give a good insight into court work. Unless the legal stenographer phrases he cannot obtain the shorthand speed that is requisite. It is therefore necessary for him to train himself on legal phrases. The phrase book contains a large number of these, which should be memorized. The various treatises on typewriting will give the ambitious legal stenographer the majority of legal forms, and a good drilling on these. supplemented when he gets into a legal office with
