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Reel in jurors with tech-savvy presentations.

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Imagine watching a foreign-language film and being shown the English subtitles only after you've finished the movie. You'd be hard-pressed to put the translated dialogue back into the con text of the film. Yet that is the experience of many jurors who must wait until they begin deliberations before they can take a really good look at much of the evidence in the case they're deciding.

Historically, jurors often had to speculate about the details of some of the evidence introduced in trials until hours, days, or weeks after they first heard of it. For example, a lawyer might show a document to a witness before introducing it into evidence, but the jurors could not examine it closely until they convened in the jury room.

Yes, lawyers talked about putting on a show at trial, but this was often limited to a few fancy display boards or enlargements of one or two key documents--certainly not a detailed presentation of evidence. To make matters worse, in many jurisdictions jurors could not--some still cannot--take notes during trial, forcing them to rely on their collective memories. And we all know how fickle memory can be.

Fortunately, the way lawyers present cases to judges and juries...

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