But how are their decisions to be known?

EDITORIAL TECHNOLOGY
During the past decade all Bureau employees have been equipped with state-of-the art computing equipment, provided by the publisher pursuant to the Official Reports publishing contract. Now, even legal editors work at a keyboard, the ease and efficiency of personal computing having overcome the century-long aversion to "mechanical writing." In addition, the Law Reporting Bureau has become part of OCA's CourtNet wide area network, greatly facilitating communications between judges'chambers and the Bureau. Today, the Law Reporting Bureau utilizes technology in nearly every aspect of its editorial operations. Through the creativity of Chief Legal Editor Michael S. Moran, editorial processes have been automated to a degree unsurpassed in any other known editorial office, public or private. Verification of citations by paging through books in the Bureau library largely has been superseded by electronic research using either on-line services or the Bureau’s legal CD-ROM library. All decisions are electronically preverified to flag possibly erroneous citations. In addition, the citations in each decision are hypertext-linked to the full text of each cited case, statute, or other authority, allowing editors to verify citations against cited sources via a single mouse click. Proofreaders may review all corrections at any time by referring to a document that color-codes all additions and deletions. Additionally, instead of proofreading in paired teams, the office can employ customized "text-to-speech" software to read decisions to proofreading staff. Finally, when decisions are ready for release, institutionally developed software converts the corrected decisions to the proper formats for transmission to the publisher, posting on the Bureau’s Web site, and updating records in the Bureau’s comprehensive in-house administrative database.	Above: Chief Legal Editor Michael S. Moran demonstrates automated editorial procedures to then Court of Appeals Judge Richard C. Wesley (now United States Circuit Judge), as Stuart Cohen, Clerk of the Court, and Deputy State Reporter Charles A. Ashe look on. Above: Copywrights have been registered for several editorial automation programs developed by the Law Reporting Bureau.
	Left: Milagros Figueroa demonstrates the "text-to-speech" software for Court of Appeals Judge Victoria A. Graffeo with Senior Legal Editor Kelli J. Flansburg looking on.
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