Thursday Seminar: 9:30 am - 5:30 pm (includes lunch)

Every courtroom is a classroom, and every trial lawyer is a teacher, but a teacher’s first task is to capture the attention and imagination of his students. Today’s judges and jurors have little patience for (or interest in) yesterday’s evidence presentation methods, which are boring and unduly time consuming to a generation raised on CNN, X-Box and MTV. The 21st Century Trial Lawyer will be a combination of Clarence Darrow and Steven Spielberg - someone who effectively uses competent trial advocacy skills together with the tools of the information age to ‘teach’ their case to the trier of fact. Computer aided evidence presentation is dramatically changing the modern courtroom, and those who fail to grasp this fundamental change are at an extreme disadvantage.

This program shows novice and advanced attorneys alike how to efficiently, effectively and economically use modern computer technology to both manage litigation during the case intake, discovery and preparation phase and then give ‘maximum impact’ integrated visual presentations of evidence at trial. Not merely another ‘PowerPoint(er) for Lawyers’ program, the presenters (both experienced trial lawyers and experts in the subject) will take you beyond the basics and show you a new paradigm for how to manage your case from the first day you meet with the client until the day you receive your verdict.

This fast-paced program will show you (among other things) how to easily manage multiple clients, witnesses, documents, deposition transcripts and other case information, make high quality (but inexpensive) trial exhibits, access any document in your case in less than 30 seconds, quickly find organize key evidence for law and motion practice, and instantly retrieve and display evidence at trial with several different and affordable legal software programs.