Simple Features of Adobe Acrobat

Adobe Acrobat has some amazing and simple features that do not come in the free download of Adobe Reader. Probably one of my personal favorites, is the ability to combine .pdf’s, insert and extract pages as well as separate all pages into separate files. Ok, simple you say whats so amazing about that? Well from experience, I know it’s time consuming to open a document page-by-page, document-by-document. It’s convenient to combine them, and be able to scroll through all of the pages at once without having to open and close files. Also sometimes you may only want to produce certain pages, the extract pages feature then might come into play. Until next time…

Mid week Humor via video deposition

Stumbled across this video on youtube. I think I secretly hope this happens to Edgar someday..

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This almost makes me want a Pre..

Why is it that the fans are the ones that always come out with the best advertisement for gadgets? And why do big corporations not take notice?

This fan submitted video almost makes me want to buy a pre.. Although I’m still sticking with the iPhone.

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Soft Tissue Attorneys’ Deposition Technique [video]

In this example my client was able to save the expense of live testimony. At the same time, he got his demonstrative evidence of the surgery admitted, and sometimes getting this sort of evidence admitted can be an authoritative issue if you have no one in court to prove it up.

While completing some last minute synch’ing for one of the two trials that we provided litigation support for last week, I came across a great technique that I had never seen done before.

My client pulled up the doctor’s website (the deponent), where he had an animation of the surgery that was preformed waiting to be played back. The camera focused on the laptop screen and this is what the jury saw (remember it’s a 100″ screen they’re viewing this on):

5 Q. All right. Thank you. And the — Those slides
6 as well as the chart that you described earlier, do
7 those reasonably and accurately depict this type of –
8 of surgery and also the condition that you described for
9 us earlier?
10 A. Yes.

While it may not be on the top of your “what to do in a deposition” list, it’s wise to consider displaying your demonstrative evidence while in the video deposition.

World’s Fastest Book Scanner

Well, this post is more on the Techy side but very interesting. A researcher at the University of Tokyo has developed the world’s fastest book scanner, which uses a “book flipping scanning” method “that does exactly what it sounds like, digitizing 200 pages per minute.” Now imagine having your entire case file scanned in less than half the time of what it would normally take. Pricing and availability has not yet been announced.

World's Fastest Book Scanner

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Medical Illustrations

Listening to a doctor explain a procedure is one of the most difficult topics for a jury to visualize. Any case that involves injuries, whether it be a medical malpractice suit or a car wreck benefits from a quality medical illustration or animation. DLS does not create our own medical illustrations for use in our presentations, this is a very specialized field that takes a graphic designer with an extensive medical background. We suggest our clients to use a company based out of Dallas named MediVisuals.



While I can’t attest to how many illustrations they have, I do know that I’ve never had a client make a request they couldn’t produce. The downfall of using a company such as MediVisuals is the cost, while each illustration differs in price, they are normally very cost prohibitive for smaller cases (car wrecks), but are extremely useful if your case can justify the cost.

The next time you have a case involving an injury or botched medical procedure, put yourself in a jurors shoes… Would you be able to visualize what your expert is discussing? If not, I highly recommend using medical illustrations or animations.

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Introduction by Edgar

Hi, my name is Edgar Hernandez and I have been in Trial for the last 2 weeks but now I’m back for my first post. I just wanted to take a minute to introduce myself and tell a little about me and where I come from.

I’ve been working in the Trial Technology field for about 10 years now and I’ve had the privilege to work all over the Country with many great attorneys. I’m really looking forward in sharing my experiences and inside tips in this field. I’m always interested in listening to other people’s thoughts about technology and how to use it effectively in the courtroom.

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Jury Returns Verdict in Neilesh v. Lawyers Title

Last week I ran the technology for this Title insurance claim and the jury came back in our favor (really quickly I’d like to add). This was an interesting matter involving what was a pretty high profile (news link, news link, news link) injunction involving Neilesh’s location from attempting to lease to a gentleman’s club.

This trial was against the title insurance company that had failed to report a covenant that didn’t allow for these types of business’s in this location. Which needless to say, greatly reduced the value of the property.

The technology was basic and simple, although I did have to hook 3 different laptops into the system. The client and the attorney I was working for both wanted to show and manipulate excel spreadsheets live in trial.

Congrats to John Howell of Allen, Stein & Durbin on a well tried case and excellent $1million+ verdict!

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