Objective: Learn the skills needed to create effective presentation materials for litigation, transactional and estate planning practices
Introduction
» Need for Visual Communication
• People process information differently
• Presentation is a story telling technique in litigation
• Presentations are also useful for CLE, Estate Planning, Real Estate and more
• Visuals supplement spoken work
» Presentation Considerations
• Presenter objectives
• Audience needs
• Output method, e.g. live presentation online presentation, printed output
Creating Slides for Effective Trial Presentation
» How to create slides
• Slide Layouts
• Inserting Objects
• Copy and Paste
» Using Multimedia in Trial Presentations
• Incorporating Movies, e.g. crime being caught on video
• Incorporating Sound, e.g. deposition
• Inserting Photographs, e.g. accident scene photo, plot plan for real estate
Working with Diagrams
» Creating Timelines, e.g. Litigation, Real Estate
» Depicting business processes, organization charts, corporate structure
Embedding Legal Documents in Presentations
» MS Office Documents, e.g. contracts, agreements, correspondence
» PDF Files using snapshot, e.g. scanned documents
» Files from other application
Keeping the Jury's or Audience Attention
» Blowouts of relevant parts of documents
» Cropping pictures to show only relevant information
» Enhancing slides with shapes
» Hyperlinks to full document, other slides or website
The Presentation
» Slide show presentation
» Printouts and handouts
Questions and Answers