Our Reporters Farmer Arsenault Brock provides its clients with some of the most experienced and qualified court reporters in the country. Our reporters cover many of the most high-profile cases in Boston, including cases involving high-tech manufacturing processes, biotechnology patents, software contract disputes, and securities class actions. Boston, with its universities, think tanks, high-tech companies, and financial giants, has a tremendous concentration of expert witnesses. Attorneys deposing those experts - from econometricians to epidemiologists, computer scientists to telecommunications specialists - can rest assured that by calling Farmer Arsenault Brock they will have the best reporter for the job. When it comes to providing realtime translation of any testimony, expert or not, our nationally recognized reporters set the standard. Skip to: David Arsenault Alan Brock Susan Blatt Joan Cassidy Kathy Silva Ed Varallo Jan Young Jonathan Young   Linda M. Farmer, RPR, CRR, has been reporting since 1971. Her experience includes reporting Congressional committees and Presidential speeches and interviews during the Carter Administration. During much of the 1980s and the 1990s she covered work for Fritz & Sheehan Associates, Inc. She has reported the highly technical hearings of the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy and the Energy Facilities Siting Board, as well as patent litigation involving biotechnology and complex industrial processes, often providing next-day delivery and interactive realtime. Linda is a Certified LiveNote Trainer, and is a designer and presenter of seminars for attorneys on the use of interactive realtime. She is the author of a technical manual for reporters on computer software and is the codesigner and presenter, with David Arsenault, of weekend workshops on the use of court reporting software. David A. Arsenault, RPR, has been a reporter since 1985. He worked through Fritz & Sheehan Associates, Inc., during much of the 1980s and 1990s. His work has included technical litigation concerning patent infringement, contract disputes, medical devices, industrial processes, and tobacco and public health. He has furnished interactive realtime for attorneys since 1995 and has frequently provided transcripts on a next-day basis. David is the codesigner and presenter, with Linda Farmer, of advanced workshops on the use of court reporting software. He and Linda have also authored a realtime technical manual for court reporters. He received a B.Mus. in piano performance from the Longy School of Music in 1976. Skip to: Top of Page Linda Farmer David Arsenault Susan Blatt Joan Cassidy Kathy Silva Ed Varallo Jan Young Jonathan Young   Alan H. Brock, RDR, CRR, has been a reporter since 1981. He has reported a wide variety of complex technical litigation concerning various occupational lung diseases, biotechnology patent disputes, medical malpractice, environmental contamination, and contract disputes involving econometric analysis. He has for 15 years reported the hearings of the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy (formerly Department of Public Utilities), involving power-plant siting, rate setting, and performance review of gas and electric utilities, with a particular focus on telecommunications deregulation. In all these areas of litigation he has specialized in providing interactive realtime and daily copy. He worked through Fritz & Sheehan Associates, Inc., during much of the 1980s and 1990s. Alan was the champion of the 2003 National Court Reporters Association Speed Contest and placed fifth in the 2003 National Realtime Contest. He is a 1979 graduate of Oberlin College, with a B.A. in government, and Oberlin Conservatory, with a B.Mus. in piano performance.   Susan J. Blatt, RPR, has been a reporter since 1979, beginning in Charleston, South Carolina, and then working in Boston for BPA Associates and Fritz & Sheehan Associates, Inc. She has reported depositions and arbitrations in business, construction, environmental, and patent cases. Susan earned her B.A. in sociology from Tulane University and is currently pursuing her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Massachusetts College of Art. __________________ Skip to: Top of Page Linda Farmer David Arsenault Alan Brock Susan Blatt Kathy Silva Ed Varallo Jan Young Jonathan Young   Joan M. Cassidy, RMR, CRR, has been a court reporter since 1985, working through Doris O. Wong Associates and Fritz & Sheehan Associates, Inc. She has focused on intellectual-property cases and on other expert testimony, for which she has frequently provided daily copy. She also has substantial experience with economics testimony in insurance regulatory rate-setting hearings. She often provides interactive realtime for attorneys. Joan is a graduate of Regis College, where she earned a B.A. cum laude in modern Greek language and literature and English. Before becoming a court reporter, she worked as a Spanish interpreter and multilingual classroom instructor and librarian. She has been the director of international programs at the Prince Henry College at Chautauqua Institute and has traveled widely in Europe, South America and the Middle East.   Kathleen Mullen Silva, RPR, CRR, began her career as a court reporter in 1980. She worked through Fritz & Sheehan Associates, Inc., during much of the 1980s and 1990s, reporting cases involving environmental disputes, medical malpractice, patent disputes, and employment law, often on an expedited basis. She initially worked through Catuogno Court Reporting in Springfield, Massachusetts, covering depositions, jury trials, and grand jury sessions. While at Farmer Arsenault Brock LLC she has covered cases involving toxic-waste contamination and labor disputes, which she has often reported in interactive realtime. Skip to: Top of Page Linda Farmer David Arsenault Alan Brock Susan Blatt Joan Cassidy Kathy Silva Jan Young Jonathan Young   J. Edward Varallo, RMR, CRR, has been a court reporter since 1964. In the mid-1970s he was an official reporter in the Delaware Court of Chancery. He was then a principal of Varallo & Wilcox, a reporting firm in Wilmington, Delaware, until 1988, when he moved to Boston and began reporting through Fritz & Sheehan Associates, Inc. He has extensive experience in extremely difficult subject matter such as computer software and hardware patent disputes, biotechnology, and industrial design, as well as cases involving nuclear-plant design, toxicology, and economics. Ed is a five-time winner of the National Court Reporters Association Speed Contest (1974-1976, 1986, and 1996) and for over fifteen years was the recordholder for highest winning score. He has presented many seminars for reporters throughout the country on speed-building and test-taking and has written a series of articles on machine shorthand for The Journal of Court Reporting (formerly The National Shorthand Reporter). Ed was one of the earliest proponents of the use of realtime, both in litigation and for the deaf and hard of hearing. In the early and mid-1990s he was instrumental in Massachusetts in promoting CART reporting, providing realtime access to public events, college classes, etc., for the deaf and hard of hearing. He is the author of The Realtime Writer's Manual, an advanced training guide for court reporters, and placed third in the 2003 National Court Reporters Association Realtime Contest.   Janis Tracy Young, RDR, CRR, began work as a court reporter in 1978, starting in the Detroit area and then moving to Boston, where she worked through Fritz & Sheehan Associates, Inc. She was a co-founder of the Cambridge CART Center, providing realtime reporting for the deaf and hard of hearing at various universities in Boston, including Harvard and Boston University Law School. She has been a presenter at realtime and speed-building seminars sponsored by the Massachusetts Court Reporters Association. In addition to her focus on interactive realtime reporting of intellectual-property and complex technical cases, Jan has years of experience in public-utility regulatory hearings and medical-malpractice depositions, providing daily copy on a regular basis. She earned her B.A. in music from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1973. Skip to: Top of Page Linda Farmer David Arsenault Alan Brock Susan Blatt Joan Cassidy Kathy Silva Ed Varallo Jan Young   Jonathan H. Young, RDR, CRR, began working as a reporter in 1971, first with Doris O. Wong Associates and later with Fritz & Sheehan Associates, Inc. He was a co-founder of the Cambridge CART Center. He has been at the forefront of the use of realtime for the deaf and hearing-impaired. Jonathan qualified in the National Court Reporters Association Speed Contest numerous times from 1977 through 1986; he achieved a first-place finish in individual legs and an overall bronze medal twice. In addition to providing realtime for classes in organic chemistry, molecular biology, and multivariable calculus at Boston-area universities, including Harvard and Boston University, he has often provided daily copy for cases involving intellectual-property disputes, telecommunications, and nuclear power. Jonathan received his B.A. in English literature from Princeton University and his Associate certificate in organ performance from the Royal Academy of Music