Analogy, Illustration, Animation and Simplicity: A Lesson for Trial Graphics
Great graphics make difficult concepts understandable, and such graphics are what we aspire to each day at Cogent Legal. Today’s blog entry will dissect a graphic from the New York Times and think...
View ArticleSimplify and Emphasize in Litigation Graphics
In oral argument, a litigator has very limited time—she needs to hit the high points and move on. She must communicate enough information to convince the judge or jury of her argument, yet must avoid...
View ArticleHow to Get Your Animation In Front of a Jury
After spending time, effort and money to produce an animation that will support a key point of your case (or disprove a key point of your opponents’ case), you want to make sure the jury actually gets...
View ArticleUsing Biomechanical Animations To Prove Your Case
I’m often asked by attorneys, “Why spend the money on making any visuals showing how the incident occurred if it’s an admitted liability case?” My question back is, does the other side agree completely...
View ArticleA Visual Story About Litigation Technology
I will be presenting some webinars soon about litigation technology (click here for info and to register), and in those webinars, I want to tell the story of litigation technology in a visual way. I...
View ArticleAnimations and Demonstratives—Lessons From a Murder Trial
Judicial opinions, even unpublished ones, can teach us about using animations and demonstratives in court. Today, I’ll review decisions from a murder trial that illustrate three important lessons for...
View ArticleThe Need for Graphics in a Patent Trial, and Other Insights from Judges
After deliberations have finished, I’ve seen that the pictures were important to jurors because the whiteboards in the jury room often have the jurors’ reproductions of the pictures and diagrams that...
View ArticleThe Need for Animations to Show Injury in PI Cases
At Cogent Legal, we create graphics to visually convey concepts for business cases, patent cases, employment and more. One the most useful things we do, in my view as a former litigator who handled...
View ArticleStep by Step Development of an Animation That Helps Settle a Case
We all know the power of a well-done animation in front of a jury. Such animations can help visually explain concepts in moments instead of in hours. However, they can also be instrumental in settling...
View ArticleFrom “Attack of the Drones” to 3D Modeling for Litigation Graphics (or, How I...
When you hear the word “drone,” it’s hard not to think about the unmanned attack drones flown from airbases and used to hunt down suspected terrorists. The term conjures up something close to the...
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