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The Trial Technologist's View

Trial Technologist's have different views of a trial than anyone in the courtroom. Here is my point of view of current and past trials I've been involved with. I'll also discuss software/hardware tips & tricks revolving around the legal industry.
By Blake Boyd

Post Frequency: 1.2/day

Last Entry: March 30, 2011 at 15:17:26

In the Courtroom, Silence is Golden

Posted on October 16, 2008
Acoustics in courtrooms vary as much as judges’ personalities do. I know we’ve all been in courtrooms that seem to have a more “public” feeling; Where the judge might be listening to a motion at the bench and there are other open conversations going on...

San Antonio Blawgs

Posted on October 15, 2008
In an effort to give credit to the hard working blawgers from San Antonio, I came up with this quick list that I have in a folder in my RSS reader. San Antonio seems to be a little behind in the technology area when it comes to attorneys. With so much great talent [...

Starting Slander Trial Today

Posted on October 06, 2008
In July of 2004 I was approached by an acquaintance that happened to be an assistant DA that had a big trial coming up. Since I would be working for the Government there wasn’t much available in the form of payment, but it offered me my first criminal trial experience...

What would Barney Fife do?

Posted on September 24, 2008
Last week we were hired by a Trial Technologist’s View reader to create a presentation that would be used throughout a criminal trial. No litigation support was required only the presentation needed to be created. While most slides were typical of what we normally create, I had a first time request of using Barney [...

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Solo Practice University

Posted on September 23, 2008
One of the things I like most about this blog has to be the amount of solo and small firm attorneys that benefit from the posts. I like to think I helped a “little guy” out there beat the “big guy”. But how does one gain the real world education of a litigation [...

Authors@Google: Garr Reynolds

Posted on September 22, 2008
Although this is a lenghty video, I highly recommend this talk given by Garr Reynolds to some Google employee’s. Although some of his design tips do not directly translate to what you want use in the courtroom, the basis of his theories are very well placed...

Vertical Timeline in PowerPoint

Posted on September 19, 2008
During the course of our online creation process, I’m routinely presented with a piece of paper with events on it. Timeline’s are important in almost all litigation. Upon reviewing the material from this presentation, I counted a total of 12 different events that the attorney wanted to present...

Pico Projector in a Courtroom near you?

Posted on September 16, 2008
Over the past 6 months or so the gadget world has been buzzing with the newest technology in projectors. So what are these “Pico Projectors”, why is everyone so excited? Imagine having a full fledged projector that fits into the palm of your hand...

Special Discount For TrialTechView.com Visitors

Posted on August 29, 2008
It’s TrialTechView’s one year anniversary! So how about a discount offer?! We’ve decided all of our loyal readers should receive a 25% discount on all Litigation Dynamics PowerPoint and Keynote Presentations! If you’ve been looking at our examples and don’t have the time to create you own, now is the time to contact us! With [...

Plaintiff Lawyer Tips Blog

Posted on August 27, 2008
Admittedly we have more plaintiff trial attorney clients than defense. This may be a subconscious drive on my part, as I was brought up in a strictly plaintiff household. I also seem to root for the underdog in sporting events when my home team (GO SPURS GO) aren’t playing...

Download: Preponderance of the Evidence Graphic

Posted on August 26, 2008
I’ve had multiple requests from attorneys asking for a high quality version of the Preponderance of the Evidence scales we used in our Voir Dire presentation last week. If you would like to use this graphic to use in your own PowerPoint or Keynote presentation please click here...

Combating Biased Evidence / Images

Posted on August 25, 2008
The use of photographic evidence is always the best way to prove your point, if you have the correct photo. Experienced photographers use different angles to make subject’s sizes, proportions and distances look different then they really are. This photograph was produced by opposing counsel...

Using PowerPoint in Voir Dire

Posted on August 22, 2008
Monday morning before the start of trial is always busy for us in the litigation support field. It’s the last few hours before opening statement to make sure all the videos are synchronized, clips are tuned to perfection, documents scanned and PowerPoints completed...

News Article from Last Trial

Posted on August 13, 2008
Last week I wrote about the latest trial we provided Litigation Support in. Today the case was also reviewed and written about in the local paper and online. If you’re interested you can find the article HERE. I find it somewhat disturbing when news reporters cover a case that they did not [...

Opening Statment using Distorted Frame Effect

Posted on August 12, 2008
In the last trial we completed we were asked to create a single slide opening statement presentation. I was handed a piece of paper with the words Privileges, Promises, Choices, Decisions, and Trust on it. I knew they were referencing the plaintiff in the lawsuit, so I asked for a copy of his [...

Automated Transcript Synchronization - Sanction II

Posted on May 27, 2008
A while back Verdict Systems added a feature in Sanction II that allows you - the end user - to synch your video depositions online. This is not a new feature to presentation software packages; inData has their own version, which is called TimeCoder Pro, even the slightly popular Visionary has an online synch [...

Popular Mechanics - Mac > PC in tests

Posted on April 16, 2008
I may seem like I am becoming more and more like the typical Apple fanboy… but, it’s not because I’m falling into the viral marketing campaigns (which are brilliant uses of presentation), it’s because Cupertino is producing far superior products...

Criminal Defense Law With an Apple Blog

Posted on March 21, 2008
Don’t let the title fool you. The Criminal Defense Law with an Apple Blog has some great reviews of software for the Mac. With a recent design upgrade the site is looking as snazzy as ever. Check it out, you might find something new!

Example Use of Pie Charts in Keynote

Posted on March 19, 2008
I don’t spend much time creating presentations that deal with pie charts, so I was a little surprised with myself when I decided to use pie charts in this presentation. I’ve always played with the Charts and Graphs in Keynote, but never found myself using them in final presentations...

Visual of Poorly Designed PowerPoint

Posted on March 17, 2008
In the quest to continually learn new theories and ideas behind presentation design, I follow many blogs. One of the most well known is Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds. Garr has written a great article comparing eloquent speeches compared with a poorly designed PowerPoint...

Download: Transparent PowerPoint or Keynote Textbox 3

Posted on March 14, 2008
Using simplistic textboxes can make your bullet points stand out in an otherwise busy PowerPoint or Keynote slide. I use textboxes such as this one when I have images or documents on the screen at the same time. The colors are subtle to not distract much from the text or the other images [...

Tis? The Season

Posted on March 10, 2008
About 6 years ago I learned one thing about litigation: Attorney’s love their holidays. Whether it’s Christmas, New Years, Summer or Thanksgiving, if it’s a holiday season, our case load dramatically decrees. What I’m really trying to say is: Since there are no holidays around, we’re busy, 1 week arbitration last week, [...

?Using Macs in Trial II? - Day Two - Show & Tell

Posted on March 04, 2008
Realizing the collective intelligence gathered in the room, Kern Lewis (the host of the seminar) reserved a couple of hours at the end of Saturday for everyone to share tips & tricks, and even to ask their stumper questions to see if someone could help out...

?Using Macs in Trial II? - Day Two - Clarity Legal Software

Posted on March 03, 2008
Before the demo from Clarity Legal Software, the attorneys from Foreman, Lewis & Hutchison (the hosts of this fine seminar) showed how they re-enact a client’s story in their office so they can better understand a case. When they were done re-enacting the scenes from a tragic death of a client in police custody, Rafe Foreman [...

?Using Macs in Trial II? - Day Two - Daylite

Posted on March 02, 2008
Amin Rahmani, Business Development Manager from Marketcircle Inc. took the floor to demo and discuss Daylite and Billings. I had the fortunate pleasure of sitting next to Amin during Friday’s sessions, and we had a chance to talk a bit about the legal market...

?Using Macs in Trial II? - Day Two - Circus Ponies NoteBook

Posted on March 01, 2008
The second day of the “Using Macs in Trial II” seminar started off with Jayson Adams from Circus Ponies Software giving a full demo of their highly functional NoteBook application. They are one of the few Mac software developers that actually have a “legal” section on their Website...

?Using Macs in Trial II? - Day One

Posted on March 01, 2008
Since Blake is busy working this week, he’s unable to attend the “Using Macs in Trial II” seminar this Friday and Saturday in Dallas, Texas; so he has graciously allowed me to “guest blog” a few updates from the show. My name is Brett Burney and I author the www...

CLE Presentation displayed in Keynote - Video

Posted on February 29, 2008
I routinely create CLE presentations for attorneys and the design philosophies I use in mediation and trial seem to fit perfectly. This is an example on how you can apply the general design philosophy to a presentation such as an CLE. The subject dealt mostly with contract issues...

Attorney?s debate Mac v. PC

Posted on February 28, 2008
There was a great article published on the ABA Journal’s website today. Both the attorneys (Ben Stevens and Rick Georges) interviewed are listed in my blogroll. Both of their blogs are in my RSS Reader, and I believe both are very knowledgeable...

Celebrex is dangerous?

Posted on February 07, 2008
Since I am/was a follower of VIOXX litigation after working the nations 3rd VIOXX trial, I was not very surprised when I saw the post “Researchers Find Potentially Dangerous Side Effects Of Arthritis Drug Celebrex” by Bob Kraft over at the P...

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