Advance scripting also limits attorneys' opportunities to delay, surprise, or improvise during trial. Sophisticated clients like electronic presentations for two reasons. First, they've seen attorneys use electronic presentation to great effect in several highly publicized trials. Second, clients know that electronic presentation shortens trial. Not every case demands electronic trial presentation.
Some cases call for simple, low-tech exhibits.
Electronic trial presentation replaces blackboards, easels, paper, transparencies, and overhead projectors with images controlled from your table and displayed at several points in the courtroom on screens, televisions, or computer monitors. The simplest electronic trial presentation system utilizes a visual presenter, which looks something like a streamlined overhead projector. When you place an exhibit on the presenter's stage, a tiny television camera captures and beams it to TV monitors through standard video cables. Some attorneys connect the presenter to a super-bright LCD projector which then projects the image onto a movie screen as large as 9' x 12'. You can also split the screen to present document exhibits alongside conflicting video deposition testimony.