STAR Membership

STAR provides its members with extensive training, educational resources, and networking events.

STAR has created a community that will empower all members to better themselves professionally and keep their businesses profitable and successful.

As a STAR member, you’ll have access to expert guidance and advice from experienced court reporting professionals across a range of topic areas. It’s like having your own personal board of advisors!

STAR Membership Includes:

FROM DAY ONE, YOU’LL ENJOY
THESE CORE MEMBER BENEFITS

  • Networking & Communications
  • Educational Opportunities
  • Technology & Security
  • Members-Only Product Discounts

Networking & Communications

  • Referrals from trusted members

  • Practical business advice from reporting professionals of all methods of capture

  • Marketing advice from forward-thinking business owners from across the country

  • Comprehensive member directory of over 500 firm owners and professional reporters

Technology & Security

  • Cutting-edge resources for the latest technologies impacting your business

  • Access to leading technology vendors at STAR conferences

  • Practical and up-to-date information you can apply immediately to grow your business

  • Opportunities to support, improve, and influence the future of the speech-to-text industry

Educational Opportunities

  • Access to live webinars, podcasts, and exclusive Facebook Live educational events

  • Reduced fees for continuing education credits

  • Discounted conference registrations and VIP access to conference event

Membership Options & Pricing

At STAR, we have a membership option to fit your needs.

Please review our membership options and join today to see how STAR can help you achieve greater success for yourself and your business.

Industry Professional ($150): Any professional currently working in the field as a stenographer, voice writer, digital reporter, legal transcriptionist, videographer, scopist, or proofreader.

Agency Management ($150): Any professional who owns, manages, supervises, or assists in the operation of a court reporting or related business.

Educator ($150): Any industry professional in the business of educating court reporters regardless of method (steno, digital or voice).

First Year Professional ($150): Any professional in their first year of working in the field as a stenographer, voice writer, digital reporter, legal transcriptionist, videographer, scopist, or proofreader.

Student (FREE): Any person engaged in studies directly related to the field of court reporting, but not yet working in the field (stenography, voice writing, digital reporting, legal transcription, scoping, videography, etc.)

Retired (FREE):  Any retired stenographer, voice writer, digital reporter, legal transcriptionist, videographer, scopist, or proofreader (qualified individuals spent their career working in this field and are of an appropriate age for retirement).

Join STAR Today!

Submit your online application and enjoy immediate membership benefits. 

Questions? Please visit our contact page to get in touch with us anytime.

This decade,

we write the future

of court reporting.

become a member!

“For me, STAR means Strong, Transformative, 
and Realistic. STAR is a responsible and robust community that embraces progress and professionalism. It’s where everybody knows your name. It’s where I want to be.”

Mission Statement:

STAR is the leading professional organization in the speech‐to‐text industry. Its members are empowered through resources, education, collaboration, and technology.

Enjoy the STAR Treatment

As a STAR member, you’ll have access to expert guidance and advice from experienced court reporting professionals across a range of topic areas. It’s like having your own personal board of advisors!

Your STAR dues cover individual membership for one year, beginning the day your member application and dues are submitted. Your membership is not transferable.

Enjoy the STAR treatment

Networking & Communications

Educational Opportunities

Members-Only Product Discounts

This decade,

we write the future

of court reporting.