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TRIAL PRESENTATION

At Animators at Law, our philosophy regarding trial presentation hardware and software is simple: trial teams should NOT have to think about it. It should simply work, and with Animators at Law, it always does.

Animators at Law provides cradle-to-grave solutions for all your litigation needs. Our “complete” trial presentation approach offers trial technology services for all your pre-trial, trial and post-trial needs. Animators at Law is a nationally recognized expert in courtroom strategy, demonstrative evidence and complete digital trial technology. Animators at Law is dedicated to meeting our client's needs, and we are committed to making the litigation process flawless.

Our pre-trial and trial presentation hardware services consist of state-of-the-art technology including black and white imaging, color imaging, document coding, OCR, Blowbacks, video encoding and video synchronization. We also provide equipment rental and setup.

Animators routinely provides trial teams with experienced courtroom technicians. Their role is to manage the trial presentation technology in the courtroom and run the trial presentation software so that the display of depositions and documentary evidence is effortless. Often, our technicians will work in the war room with little sleep to match the effort of the trial team and ensure a perfect display of evidence.

Why Create a Trial Presentation?

The main reason for using exhibits and visual evidence at trial is to present information in such a way that is becomes more comprehensible to a judge or jury.

Psychologists who have studied the way people communicate and learn have discovered that approximately 2/3 of the population (2/3 of any jury pool and judges) are "visual learners." That is, people tend to process new information that is presented to them in a visual format much more effectively than when the same information is presented to them verbally.

Psychologists have also determined that 2/3 of all lawyers are auditory or hearing people. That is, they tend to process information more effectively by hearing information. Furthermore, studies have also shown that people tend to communicate information, or "teach", in the same way that they prefer to learn. Therefore, most lawyers, as auditory learners, prefer to communicate information, or teach, by speaking rather than by showing.

In the typical courtroom scenario, what one finds is a jury, comprised mostly of visual learners, who are waiting to be shown the information, and lawyers, who are auditory learners and teachers, attempting to communicate the information by verbally explaining it. This common situation invariably creates a significant gap in communication between the lawyer and the judge and jury. The impact of this gap upon the success of a case cannot be overstated because if a judge or jury cannot visualize your argument, they typically will not understand it. Animators, by designing persuasive and creative courtroom evidence, helps to bridge the gap between the verbal communicator and the visual learner.



To learn more about our evidence techniques please contact:

Bill Yarnoff
sales@animators.com
1.800.337.7697 ext 122
703.548.1799 ext 122
703.548.5450 (fax)

Animators at Law is the nation's leading attorney owned and operated producer of demonstrative evidence, jury research and litigation technology. To date, Animators has consulted on hundreds of significant national cases with cumulative favorable decisions exceeding one trillion dollars. Our clients include more than three quarters of the nation's top law firms and hundreds of others. While most of our team is based in our Washington, DC headquarters, local offices and relationships allow us to easily work in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Texas, Florida & Philadelphia.



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