NAEGELI Deposition & Trial has been scheduling court reporters since 1980, and Spokane is one of the Washington cities where the firm keeps a staffed office rather than a mailing address. For a litigation team working a case in the Inland Northwest, three things usually matter before they call a vendor: where the office actually sits relative to the courthouse, who runs the company, and what can be booked through a single phone call. Here is a look at all three.
Spokane, Washington and the Courts That Serve It
Spokane sits about 20 miles west of the Idaho line and roughly 280 miles east of Seattle, far enough from the coast that it operates as its own legal market instead of a satellite of Puget Sound. It is the second largest metro area in the state. Attorneys practicing here often carry matters across state lines into northern Idaho and western Montana, since Spokane functions as the commercial and medical hub for that whole stretch of country.
Court activity is layered and concentrated. Spokane County Superior Court and Spokane County District Court handle state matters for the city and the dozen or so smaller communities in the county. City ordinance and misdemeanor cases go to Spokane Municipal Court. Federal civil and criminal litigation for the eastern half of Washington is heard downtown at the Thomas S. Foley United States Courthouse, home to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington. Gonzaga University School of Law is a few minutes away, which keeps a steady supply of new attorneys moving into the local bar.
The Spokane office is at 25 South Altamont Street, inside the old East Side Carnegie Library. The building went up in 1913 on money donated by Andrew Carnegie and served the East Central neighborhood as a library for more than six decades before it was repurposed. Its original architecture is largely intact. Inside are conference rooms used for depositions, arbitrations, and witness prep. The company puts the drive to both the municipal and county courthouses at roughly ten minutes. Out-of-town counsel flying in will land at Spokane International Airport (GEG), and The Historic Davenport Hotel is a comparable drive from the office.
Who NAEGELI Deposition & Trial Is
The firm opened in 1980 and has spent more than forty years in court reporting and litigation support. What started as a regional operation now covers work nationwide, with staffed offices through the Pacific Northwest and scheduling for proceedings well outside it. Spokane is one node in that network, not an independent franchise, so a local booking pulls from the same scheduling desk, reporter roster, and technical staff as any other office.
That structure is the argument the company makes for itself. A case team can hire a reporter, a videographer, and a trial technician on one call instead of chasing three vendors and reconciling three invoices. Scheduling is staffed around the clock, and both a direct Spokane line and a toll-free number are published.
How reporters are recruited and trained comes up repeatedly in the firm’s own description of its work, along with continuing education for reporters, videographers, and trial techs. NAEGELI has picked up industry and regional recognition over the years, including awards for court reporting and professional service, and it publishes testimonials from practicing attorneys and sitting judges. Those are worth reading. They are also marketing, so most firms will want to pair them with their own references and a direct conversation about the matter at hand.
Litigation Support Services Offered in Spokane
Court reporting is the backbone of the practice. Reporters cover depositions, arbitrations, administrative hearings, and trials, and the firm lists expedited and same-day transcript options for matters on a tight clock.
Remote depositions run through the same scheduling process. Parties appear from wherever they are, which cuts travel out of the equation for cases with witnesses scattered across the region. The same setup gets used for appeal and administrative hearings and for remote court appearances.
Legal videography puts a certified videographer in the room. Recorded testimony can be synced to the written transcript, which makes the record keyword searchable and lets a team pull individual clips for a motion or for cross.
Trial support is the courtroom side of the operation. Technicians build presentations that combine documents, photographs, graphics, animation, and video exhibits, then run the equipment during proceedings so counsel is not doing it from the podium.
Legal transcription covers existing recordings rather than live proceedings. The team works on legal, business, and medical audio and video, handles a wide range of languages, and delivers finished transcripts through an encrypted repository.
Copying and scanning exist for cases buried in paper. High-speed scanning, OCR processing, Bates stamping, trial binder assembly with tabs, and document destruction are all handled in-house. The firm states that its document handling follows HIPAA-aligned practices.
Interpreters are available for depositions, meetings, and hearings in a long list of languages, American Sign Language included, along with written translation of exhibits and correspondence.
Transcript summaries round out the list. Long transcripts get condensed into shorter, organized documents with key testimony flagged, which tends to earn its keep in matters with a heavy discovery record or a dozen witnesses.
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Getting in Touch
To reach NAEGELI Deposition & Trial in Spokane, use any of the following:
Address: 25 South Altamont Street, Spokane, WA 99202 Local phone: (509) 838-6000 Toll free: (800) 528-3335 Email: schedule@naegeliusa.com
