As law suits and litigations get more challenging there is a rising demand for creating legal or litigation graphics during trials and arbitrations. There is no doubt that during litigation, one has to be armed with an effective presentation in court that must be easy for all to understand and fully acceptable by the jury. Legal graphics and illustrations can have different objectives like either making a technical point or influencing the decision maker to see a specific point of view. Law firms increasingly prefer to outsource most of the legal illustrations / graphics and animation to professional animators and designers who also have a good understanding of the law.

Some of the different types of legal graphics include,

• Charts Using Text
• Timelines
• Illustrations/
• Legal Animations
• Story boards
• Accident reconstruction
• Diagrams

Timelines are very effective illustrations that help us to capture the flow of movement that can be on any scale beginning from seconds to even centuries. Pointing to any particular event in time or comparing two events in time becomes a very easy and effective process thereby making timeline a great litigation tool. Some of the other a[applications of 2D/2D legal graphics and legal animations include popular areas like,

• Construction floor plans
• Forensic
• Evidence charts
• Accidents reconstruction
• Maps
• Anatomy illustrations
• Crime scene reconstruction

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Litigation animation is a well planned and edited audiovisual presentation that converts complicated information into easy and interesting trial exhibits and be presented in court. Besides being a highly effective litigation support tool it helps attorneys and law professionals explain difficult concepts, and impress the judge and jury.

Litigation animation is usually used as evidence. But it is essential that like all other tangible evidence it must also adhere to the Federal Rules of Evidence. If the court finds that the animation is not accurate, the animation will not be admitted in court.

A computer generated animation is different when compared to a simulation. In a simulation we see a prediction of what can happen in the future by making use of certain known facts. For simulation it becomes necessary to use industry accepted software to convert the data into simulation, while in an animation instead of predicting events we see a short computer-generated movie that is a person's opinion on the matter. Considering the admissibility as evidence, a litigation animation is more difficult to qualify than say a survey map, but it will definitely score over a simulation. The main advantage of choosing to go for litigation animation is that it can survive high levels of cross examination because it is fully supported by solid fact or by testimony.

Here are some tips to get your animations the required admissibility in court;

• Get the animation testified by an appropriate qualified industry expert
• Choose a professional animation firm
• Ensure use of quality hardware/software
• Give sufficient pretrial notice (about use of animation)
• Disclose all aspects of the animation(expert / software / hardware etc)
• Be well prepared to meet all objections

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In a court of law, sublime importance is always given to the evidence. Assume you have had a major accident and have a litigation going on and want to claim damages from the opposite party. You want to produce documents of evidence that shows that the other driver already had a recent implant in the leg and that this had interfered with his driving which actually led to the accident.

Proving this point is a challenge and you are claiming big money. The jury and others who sit through the proceedings in court will need to understand exactly what had happened during the accident and who is to be blame for the accident. You need to prove that the accident took place due to the negligence of the other party who had been driving even before he was already healed from an earlier accident. You are sure of your stand but how can you make such a subject clear to the jury and other non physicians within a limited time ? The answer is medical graphics/animation and trial graphics support. One can actually show and illustrate the anatomy of the leg and show how the implant prevented the driver from slamming the brakes at the right time.

Good quality medical legal art can educate the jury and clearly demonstrate the evidentiary points of the case. High quality services in legal animations and legal graphics are provided by professional animators and graphic specialists who make medical trial exhibits, medical illustrations, and other litigation support animations that also incorporate audio background/ commentary, clippings and animation. These illustrations are usually very clear and colorful and makes it quite easy for any layman to understand. This kind of work is always done in consultation with those in the medical /forensic and legal professions and is a great litigation support to the concerned attorney during trial.

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Timelines refer to a chronological arrangement of events from earliest to the latest. It becomes easier for the audience to follow the events especially when it is occurring over a long period of time and a lot of information has to be shown. During litigation or in the court during a trial presentation legal graphics incorporating timelines can quickly get across the message to the jury.

Static timelines can be either shown as diagrams, illustrations or charts/bars that not only make it easier to understand but are also impressive. Complex events and its sequences can thus be simplified and presented.

Many online and offline timeline generating software are available that facilitate the analysis, presentation and communication of facts of a legal case to the clients, jurors, judges and colleagues. The recorded timelines are stored into disks and can be played in court. When the case is very complicated, interactive timelines are used that include different types of accessories like,

• Sound
• Pictures
• Mapping
• Documents
• Mobile phone movement
• CCTV

Some of the obvious advantages of legal graphics timelines include,

• It lets lawyers/attorneys to present case facts graphically
• It reveals the pattern of events patterns that is not otherwise not seen
• Allows lawyers and their clients to compare opposing testimony
• Helps illuminate contradictions
• Enables case practice management
• Helps planning the future
• Can link timelines to documents

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Lawyers have to be good litigators and good litigators should be able to carry forward and retain the interest of the audience and jury effectively. Hence most of the litigating lawyers are good at story telling and have the expertise in teaching and also to a certain extent are able to entertain the audience. During litigation it is often a challenge to bring out the truth. The whole plot is seen by the lawyer and his job is to present the different characters systematically and most effectively. Hence it becomes necessary to dramatize certain aspects and evidences that will other wise remain hidden from the outer world. This is possible through legal animation.

Legal animation involves use of 2D/ 3D animated graphics and visuals, which usually imitates an event that has occurred. This is achieved using computers and professional animation experts who can recreate an entire event graphically and animate it such that it can convey the subtle features that have to be brought out for the jury and audience to understand. The main objective of the litigator is to maker the legal animation a very memorable, powerful and effective experience for the jury. Different perspectives are used in animation to give different views to the same event and this can be an eye opener to the audience.

Some examples of legal animation used during litigation include,

• Reenactment of an accident on highway
• Showing the effects of slow poison on the brain
• Explain reverse engineering of duplicating a patent product
• Forensic animation
• Technical Charts/stills
• Evidence for the timing of a gun
• Recreating the past of a city street

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