If it Matters to You, it Matters to Us.

Our Story

Cite was founded on one simple truth: Whether you're an attorney, paralegal, legal assistant or court reporter, you expect personal, reliable support from your Court Reporting Service — no matter how tough the challenge, or the deadline.

It’s our goal to offer busy litigators and support staffers unmatched professionalism in court reporting, videography, videoconferencing, interpretation and trial support services — anywhere in the world.

At the same time, we’re equally committed to maintaining a family-friendly work environment, where the best court reporting professionals have the technical and personal support they need to succeed. Because if there’s one thing we’ve learned from our decades of combined experience, it’s this: A court reporting service is only as good as its court reporters — and the best court reporters deserve nothing less than the best from us.

We live for the challenge this business brings us every day, we love making the impossible happen, and we’ve invested ourselves in creating a win-win organization — both for our clients and our employees. So how can we make your job easier, your time more productive, and your efforts more successful? We want to know. Because at Cite, if it matters to you, it matters to us.

Our Team

Joe Schell

Founder of Cite, LLC

Joe graduated from Hart County High School in North Georgia and was not accepted to the University of Georgia. He took his talents to Carrollton where he attended the University of West Georgia for one quarter before being placed on academic probation. After his second quarter, the school politely asked him to leave.

Joe then became a full-time missionary with the Appalachian Service Project, with whom he coordinated volunteers for housing construction and presented project options to a board for approval. For a year, Joe coordinated weekly volunteers helping hundreds of families improve their housing situation.

From 2001 to 2009, Joe lived in Alabama and perfected his sales skills while becoming obsessed with finance. He then accepted a job with Forge Consulting as a settlement planner. While at Forge, Joe helped protect and preserve Government benefits on large personal injury and wrongful death cases and provided financial advice to clients that needed help ensuring their settlements lasted. He also completed executive courses at University of Notre Dame and University of Texas A&M and earned professional credentials in Settlement Planning and Structured Annuities while becoming a licensed insurance agent in all 50 states.

In addition to his love for service and helping his clients achieve their goals, Joe has always been fascinated with technology. While working in the legal vertical, Joe felt that many of the court reporting and trial support companies were not evolving with the times. Based on this observation, he spent 18 months learning absolutely everything about the industry and eventually opened Cite with his dear friend, Jeff Snider, in 2017.

Joe Schell fishing Less than three years after Cite’s founding, the nation shut down due to COVID-19, and Joe’s technology knowledge set Cite up for success as he began to teach attorneys the best way to handle exhibits in virtual depositions. Within two months of the nation shutting down, Joe was doing webinars for groups of fifty plus attorneys at a time while providing accredited continuing education credits with the Alabama State Bar. Since April of 2020, Joe has spoken about and presented on utilizing technology in depositions, "Cloud storage and exhibits", and "Technology in Trials”. Cite also has a viral YouTube video of him bringing himself coffee.

Joe has become a serial entrepreneur with ownership in three different companies, but his biggest passion is the charity he helped create – Here 2 Give. The charity feeds people in the Montgomery area who are not able to feed themselves and/or their families.

Traci Schell

Production

Traci is a native of Ozark, Alabama, and graduated from Carroll High School before attending Troy University. She graduated in 2000 with a BS in Business Administration with an emphasis on marketing. Since then, Traci has been able to focus on raising her three daughters, substitute teaching, and filling various volunteer roles in the community.

Traci started with Cite in October of 2018. Traci works as a production coordinator at Cite handling all production and billing. She loves going to Orangetheory, reading, cooking, spending time at the beach, and hanging out with her family and her dog, Kelee.

Meredith Hancock

Scheduler

Meredith has been with Cite since 2022. She enjoys building relationships with our court reporters, paralegals and attorneys. She aims to ensure our clients are well taken care of and pleased with our services.

Meredith was born and raised in the tri-county area. In her spare time, she likes to spend time with her kids, reading, and going to the lake.

Taylor Holland

Director of Video

Taylor has an extensive background in all aspects of video production which made him a great candidate to lead Cite’s growing video department. He grew up in Cullman, Alabama, but always had a dream of moving to the West Coast. After graduating from the University of Alabama in 2011, Taylor moved to Los Angeles to start his career in TV & Film production. He spent five years in L.A. honing his craft as a Director of Photography and Editor working on a variety of projects from commercial marketing videos to feature films. Taylor won a Webby Award in 2017 for his work as a video editor on a web-based video project titled “The People Walker.”

Taylor moved to Birmingham in 2018 to be closer to his family. He continued his work as a Director of Photography and Editor filming projects for companies like ESPN, NBC, FOX, and more until joining Cite in 2021.
Taylor enjoys using his creative video skills to film and edit Day-in-the-Life videos for clients at Cite. He believes it's his way of helping others when they're faced with life altering circumstances.

Anna Tolleson, CCR, CRR

Resource Development Liaison

Anna joined Cite in August 2017 as our first court reporter. She has covered more jobs than any other reporter at Cite. She attended Gadsden State Community College where she obtained her Associates Degree in Real-Time Reporting in 2005. She has a passion for mentoring and encouraging court reporting students and new court reporters as they begin their career. Anna is asked on a regular basis to come speak to the students at her alma mater while also serving as a mentor each year. Anna continues to grow as a reporter and a leader inside the profession.

She currently resides in Chelsea, Alabama with her two children, Parker and Eden Grace. In her spare time, Anna enjoys spending time with family and friends, going to the beach, shopping, and watching a good Netflix series.