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Beautiful Graphs of Large Data Sets for Litigation
Numbers, and the interpretation of numbers, play a big role in litigation. Presenting numerical data in court often requires a good graph of the numbers to show changes and trends in the numbers....
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Best Courtroom Presentation Provider, Once Again
We’re honored and thankful that The Recorder has recognized Cogent Legal as “Best Courtroom Presentation Provider” in its 2014 Annual Survey. This is the second year in a row that Cogent received the...
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Tips for Better Presenting Photographs in Court
Well-presented photographs are powerful tools for litigators. In this post, I’ll share some samples that show how we’ve helped litigators use photographs in court, along with a number of tips for...
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PowerPoint Skills for Litigators – Free Webinar Wed. 10/8 at Noon Pacific
Litigators use (and misuse) PowerPoint more than any other presentation tool. At Cogent Legal, we often help litigators with PowerPoint, and now we plan to share some of our PowerPoint secrets for...
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PowerPoint Features Litigators Should Be Using – Free Webinar Wed. 10/8 at...
At Cogent Legal, we often help litigators with PowerPoint, and now we plan to share some of our PowerPoint secrets for litigators in a free webinar. The webinar will be held on Wednesday, October 8,...
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PowerPoint Skills for Litigators Webinars: Recording and New Session on...
Free Recording Available: PowerPoint Skills for the Litigator: Templates, Timelines and Tools Our webinar on PowerPoint Skills for Litigators last week had great attendance and enthusiastic reviews...
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Illustrate Digitally to Show the Details Clearly
This article won the LitigationWorld Pick of the Week award. The editors of LitigationWorld, a free weekly email newsletter for litigators and others who work in litigation, give this award to one...
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Plan Your Oral Argument With Integrated Visuals
Start thinking about your visual trial presentation before you take depositions. Think of visual analogies to explain complex concepts. Give yourself time to edit visuals, just as you give yourself...
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Adobe Shape: an iPhone App for Quick Vector Drawings
A few weeks ago, I wrote in this blog about the importance of using vector graphics in litigation graphics. As that post, “Illustrate Digitally to Show the Details Clearly,” discussed, vector graphics...
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Next Thursday, December 11, 2014 at noon Pacific, I’m going to be offering a free webinar on PowerPoint Skills for Litigators: Animation, Video & Hyperlinks. Click here to register. Join me in this...
View ArticleA Judge on the Value of Early Graphics Help
Early development of graphics can help a judge understand the case from the beginning. That was the take-away from comments by the Honorable Paul Grewal of the Northern District of California, speaking...
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Windows 10 Upgrade—Smooth Sailing So Far
Yesterday I upgraded my Windows laptop from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. I’m happy to report that everything is working fine so far, and I’m enjoying some new Windows functionality. I’m an early adopter,...
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Stop Apologizing For Showing Unreadable Text in Court – Fix It Instead
I love working as a trial technician because I get to be in the room where it happens, watching and listening to attorneys present their cases. As an attorney myself, I’ve been in their shoes, and I...
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The Trial Transcript – The Most Important Document in Your Case
The best trial attorneys quote liberally from the trial transcript in closing argument. Particularly in a long trial, you need to remind jurors of the key evidence they heard and how it leads to the...
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Presenting an Excel Spreadsheet to Your Jury
Excel spreadsheets are powerful tools for business and financial analysis, but spreadsheets can be difficult to understand and to explain. In trial, we often help litigators present spreadsheets and...
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A Visual Script Ties Together Your Words and Images for Opening and Closing...
We’ve all seen examples of ineffective PowerPoint presentations before. The speaker doesn’t seem to have practiced with their slides, or they are staring at the screen and reading the slides, or they...
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