Operators could perform duties such as stenographer, typewriter, telegrapher and bookkeeper. This was later expanded to dozens of specialties like Postal Clerk, Driver, Stenographer, and Clerk-Typist. She also worked as a stenographer and legal secretary. Rutherford began a career in law, working as a court stenographer, trial lawyer and prosecutor. Transcripts were taken down by a court stenographer. Weber gave the speech based on handwritten notes which were transcribed by a stenographer. His father, Ian Manford, is a courtroom stenographer. After working as a stenographer and reporter, Johnson embarked on a legal career. Instead he dictated them to a stenographer, who later typed up corrected versions. Eleanor served as a stenographer on the Nuremberg trials. Liuba herself briefly served as Lenin's stenographer in 1921. His father was a legal stenographer for several law firms in Manhattan. His mother was a stenographer for the California Highway Patrol. He offered her a job at the hotel as his personal stenographer and she accepted. In the early 1880s she worked as a stenographer.