Recently, two of our cases have been featured in Texas Lawyer showcasing our clients victories.

Congratulations to the Hagans Burdine Montgomery Rustay firm on your recent win in the courtroom!

"Courtroom Concepts’ trial consultants provide our legal teams an extra measure of confidence during high-stakes litigation. By assuming responsibility for the entire visual presentation—everything from displaying exhibits and PowerPoint presentations to setting up equipment—they allow us to concentrate on winning the trial rather than risk being distracted by technological details."

Fred Hagans
Hagans Burdine Montgomery Rustay

 

 

Congratulations to the Watts Guerra firm on your recent victory!
Not guilty on all counts.

 

"For years, I've counted on Courtroom Concepts to help me prove my
clients' cases. When my own liberty was on the line, my first call was to Keith Cartwright and the graphics professionals at
Courtroom Concepts."

Mikal Watts
Watts Guerra

 

 

 

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At Courtroom Concepts, our mission is to help attorneys persuade jurors, judges, and mediators by showing a clear, compelling visual story aligned with their case’s themes, strategies and facts.

As part of the trial team—both behind the scenes and in the courtroom—we take an active role in advising attorneys on how legal graphics can provide a powerful advantage.

Courtroom Concepts tailors trial graphics and litigation support services for each case’s strategic needs.

If you are prepping for a trial and have questions, contact us for a free initial consultation. http://www.courtroomconcepts.com/consultation or email us at kcartwright@courtroomconcepts.com

When it’s crunch time before mediation, attorneys rarely have a minute to spare. Here are some practical ways you and your support teams can work more efficiently with your graphics partner so you can focus your energies elsewhere

Provide Courtroom Concepts the most current pleading as soon as you schedule your mediation. The more we can learn about your case early on, the more prepared we will be to assist you in developing effective visuals.

- Send us an outline of your mediation story. Even listing a few basic categories can focus your arguments and reduce the time you will spend later reorganizing the slides.

- Consider how long you will have to make your case before the mediator. A one-hour presentation consists of roughly 85 slides. Presentations typically get pared down during revisions, but if you can keep your drafts to a manageable number of slides, you can reduce expenses and save yourself some long nights.

- Encourage your support teams to send materials to Courtroom Concepts in a manner that increases efficiency. Providing text for slides that is typed, proofed, and in digital form greatly speeds the process. Video editing can be time-consuming, so have tapes, DVDs, and ASCIIs sent to us as early as possible with pre-proofed page/line designations. Send two sets of documents for scanning—a clean copy and a highlighted version indicating the callouts. Photos and illustrations should also be provided as soon as possible. Designate a point person whom Courtroom Concepts can contact with any questions about the materials.

- Create headers for document and graphic slides that hammer home your point. Writing the headers may prod you to examine

The sooner Courtroom Concepts can supply you with a draft presentation, the longer you will have to refine it and practice it prior to show time—and the less likely you’ll encounter sticker shock at the end of the process. Remember, the beauty of technology is that nothing is set in stone. All Courtroom Concepts presentations are works in progress until our clients tell us they are ready to make their case.

To learn more about how Courtroom Concepts can help you make your case, please visit us online at www.courtroomconcepts.com or call Keith Cartwright at 713-252-5087

Courtroom Concepts has the honor to provide our visual litigation support expertise to some of the finest lawyers in the country. Recently we assisted in some outstanding results and below are a few examples of how Courtroom Concepts can assist you:

On the plaintiff’s side, Courtroom Concepts assisted Fred Hagans and Kendall Montgomery in a complex breach of contract and tortious interference jury trial. The Verdict: a damages award of $83.5 million dollars. Fred Hagans said "Keith did a great job of making the trial presentations, including individual exhibits, a seamless part of the trial. At the conclusion of the trial, several jurors asked that I tell Keith what a good job he did and how much it helped them understand the case."
Hicks Thomas for the defense:

Led by John Thomas, Hicks Thomas successfully defended a 10-year, high-stakes lawsuit in which the City of Modesto California had sought $162 million in damages against R.R. Street & Co. The jury verdict for Thomas’s client: no liability. John Thomas said: "Courtroom Concepts was an integral part of our trial team. From jury selection to closing argument, they worked tirelessly to get the job done. After six months of trial covering numerous contaminated sites, Nancy Rose and her team excelled at developing tools to organize the evidence and graphics to simplify complex concepts. This group is my new "go to” trial support team."
Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Sorrels, Agosto & Friend in mediation:

After an exceptional mediation presentation by Courtroom Concepts, Nick Nichols, Daniel Horowitz and George Chandler achieved a substantial confidential settlement for their client in an automobile personal injury case. Nick Nichols said “Your expertise and excellent animation presentation were extremely beneficial in bringing this matter to a successful conclusion. We sincerely enjoyed working with you and thank you so much for a job so very well done.”

To learn more about how Courtroom Concepts can provide visual support to your firm’s winning strategy; please call Keith Cartwright at 713-651-9333. Also, you can check out our extensive library of successful visuals at courtroomconcepts.com.

In 2006, attorneys with technological expertise on their side are going to have an even greater advantage in the courtroom. The new Harris County courthouse, which is slated to open early next year, is embracing the 21st century in a big way by going digital. It is already possible to file documents electronically, but in the future the possible may become “The Expected.” At a minimum, in some courtrooms voluminous boxes of paper will be a thing of the past. Many judges will require attorneys to submit exhibits electronically and to be able to call them up electronically during trial, a process which will be facilitated by the new courtrooms’ advanced wiring.

To save costs, some law firms may attempt to keep their document scanning and preparation in-house, while others may be tempted to seek out budget services from photocopying chains. However, attempting to cut corners on a relatively inexpensive—but crucial—part of your case may not be a good idea.

There is No Room For Error when creating a good document presentation system for use in trial. The process requires meticulous, painstaking work that goes beyond merely scanning the documents. During trial you want a system that allows you to move through the documents quickly, seamlessly and without a moment’s confusion. You need every page—the correct page—to appear instantaneously and to be clean, sharp, and properly numbered. In addition, the most effective system will let you highlight and zoom into key passages in a flash. Such systems should be created by a litigation firm like Courtroom Concepts that has years of trial experience and a strong commitment to providing attorneys flawless presentations.

The new digital courthouse will no doubt also inspire more lawyers to leverage technology’s power to tell stories and explain difficult concepts to jurors who have become accustomed to—and have come to expect—messages accompanied by images and interactivity. Whether you need assistance creating a multimedia presentation, an animation, or a documentation presentation system, Courtroom Concepts is your visual partner in the digital courtroom.

To learn more about how Courtroom Concepts can help you make your case, please visit us online at www.courtroomconcepts.com or call Keith Cartwright at 713-651-9333.