What Trial Presentation Consultants Can Do For You

Planet Depos’ professional, dynamic, highly experienced trial presentation consultants create impactful presentations that leave a lasting impression on the judge, jury, arbitration panel or medical review board that will be determining the outcome of your case. Rich Kirchen of the “Milwaukee Business Journal” points out how “Taking Technology on the Road to Win Cases” has enabled Rick Gass, 69, to “sway the jury his client’s way” and keep clients knocking on his door. Thanks to Gass’ ability to integrate state-of-the-art technology into the way he communicates with juries, “His services are in greater demand nationwide today than ever before in his career.”

In Christopher Contois’ blog post “Ten Steps to Creating a Winning Trial Presentation,” he explains the intricacies of putting together winning presentations with today’s trial software, and suggests beginning with getting organized. Once you and your litigation team outline the key messages you’d like to convey, Planet Depos’ trial consultants will assemble documents, video clips and images into powerful opening statements and closing arguments utilizing:

• Sanction
• TrialDirector
• Visionary
• Trial Touch or
• PowerPoint

The slides, as highlighted by Microsoft PowerPoint in their article, “Winning at Trial with a Dynamic PowerPoint Presentation” are one of the many types of presentations that our trial consultants can build. Christopher Egan, in his article “Technology in Trial – Using Technology to Persuade Four Generations,” suggests telling your story with technology by creating exhibits with highlighting, ones that incorporate arrows and use magnification to call attention to specifics. He also suggests incorporating timelines and synchronized text-to-video transcript clips both as evidence and as an integral part of your closing argument.

William B. Smith and R.J. Waldsmith, in their article “Winning the Close Case and Increasing Your Damages with Technology” wrote “Technology helps overcome juror bias. An effective presen¬tation highlights the favorable evidence, which reduces the risk that traditional juror biases will affect the result. A juror who may not initially support your case is more likely to change his or her mind based on visual information rather than verbal information” because “visual presentation allows you to break down these biases with clear messages and repetition” and “A multimedia presentation allows you to switch from a photo to a video to an anatomic model and back to another photo in a few clicks on a computer mouse,” where the old flip chart and printed exhibits are cumbersome and outdated. With the expertise of the Planet Depos’ trial consultants, “There is no need to stop everything to turn on a video tape player or to let a projector warm up.” Smith and Waldsmith indicate, “When done properly, it is virtually seamless,” and that is what our trial consultants will do for you, create seamless presentations that jurors expect and desire.

Once we create the visual presentation for you, we can also assist in presenting your case throughout the duration of the trial, or we can simply provide the necessary equipment for you to use in advancing your case. We have the laptops, flat-screen monitors, ELMOs and iPads you need to display documents and video clips, as well as all the speakers, switches and cables necessary to move quickly between video evidence, slideshows, photographs, diagrams, and transcript excerpts, as highlighted here in TrialDirector.

Even if you have your own equipment, consider renting backup equipment from us to prevent a possible hardware or software disaster that may destroy the jury’s focus and concentration.

Preparation is key, which is why our trial consultants can work with you and your team on the complexities of navigating from one type of audio-visual display to the other.

Don’t be afraid to leap into state-of-the-art trial presentation. Planet Depos is here to make the transition an easy one and provide more information than ever before in a manner that helps the judge, jury, arbitrators or medical review board feel more like the “active participants” that William B. Smith and R.J. Waldsmith suggest they prefer being, and that wins cases in this technologically savvy world.