Give jurors an active role in the trial: let them ask questions!

Join us for a discussion of the Good, the Bad and the Just Plain Crazy advice about using PowerPoint in trial.

Last week, the Pew Research foundation released a survey results including this graph describing Americans’ changing opinions on gun control/gun rights. While the graph is certainly accurate and offers much data to the user, There are some things I just don’t like about it:

Last week, the Federal Circuit left  the “25% rule of thumb ” for calculating infringement damages lying on the kitchen table when it declared this oft used, but little substantiated, theory to be “fundamentally flawed” and “inadmissible.” The ruling also places further restrictions on admissibility of  the entire market value of a product without a clear [...]

We received so many comments on our card this year, I thought we’d post it for your amusement: For the record, that’s not a Snuggie. He is actually wearing a Slanket.

Before and After – a Sick Fever Graph Makes a Miraculous Recovery

To create a well-designed PowerPoint presentation, you must begin with a good foundation – the background. PowerPoint 2011 for the Mac features no less than 57 design templates. A search on google.com for “powerpoint slide background” returns a kaleidoscopic 1,710,000 images. Are any of these backgrounds useful in designing a presentation to be used at trial [...]

Whent we are faced with a jury of non-scientists and the difficult task of teaching technical subject matter to them, we must switch off the cold light of science, light a warm fire and settle in to tell a story.

Nothing beats a good story when it comes to communicating and convincing.

In this clip from Jon Stewart’s Daily Show, Senator Chuck Grassley demonstrates almost every mistake you can commit in a presentation during his rambling and ill-conceived speech. File this under “Ideas That Sounded Good at the Time.” Senator Grassley’s narrative character, “Sir Taxalot” sets off to slay the “Deficit Dragon” in this rambling metaphor or [...]