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Use Technology In Court, But Keep It Quiet!

12 Thursday Feb 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in iPad, Laptop, Legal Technology

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Apple Wireless Keyboard, Court Reporter, Depositions, Goodnotes, iPad, iPhone J.D., Jeff Richardson, Stenomask, Trial, Typing Keyboard, Wacom Bamboo Stylus

Quiet Keyboards For Court?, by Jeff Richardson, iPhone J.D. 

http://tinyurl.com/ool4gwt

I recently received an email from Baton Rouge, Louisiana litigator Ross Dooley of Roedel, Parsons, Koch, Blache, Balhoff & McCollister. He is looking for a quiet external keyboard that he can use with his iPad to take notes in court. He told me that he was recently using his iPad with the Apple Wireless Keyboard during a hearing when the judge’s minute clerk alerted him that his typing was too loud. This was a courtroom in which the court reporter was wearing headphones and speaking into a stenomask, and apparently the sound of the typing was somehow amplified in the court reporter’s headphones.

I don’t often encounter a court reporter using a stenomask, but even so, I rarely type using a keyboard with my iPad in court because I do think that the noise can be distracting. If I am going to use my iPad to take notes, I instead use a quiet stylus like the Wacom Bamboo Stylus duo and an app like GoodNotes. But I cannot write using a stylus as fast as I can with a pen, so for those times in court when speed matters, I just use pen and paper.

On the other hand, in depositions, I use a keyboard with my iPad all the time. In that setting, I have never found the Apple Wireless Keyboard to be too loud, nor have I found the sound of other keyboards to be too distracting. . . .

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Bifurcation Explained By An Eleventh Circuit Court Judge.

14 Monday Jul 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, Damages, Litigation

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Bifurcation, Damages, Judge David L. Tobin, The Florida Bar Journal, Trial

To B…or Not to B…: B…Means Bifurcation, by Judge David L. Tobin, The Florida Bar Journal, 2000 Volume LXXIV, No. 10.

http://tinyurl.com/p5vkklg

An excellent analysis and explanation. -CCE

From 1997 through May 2000, as judge in the 11th Circuit Court, I have bifurcated hundreds of cases in which the issues of liability and damages were involved. The most surprising statistic is that during this three and one-half years I have tried only one case in which the issue was damages! Do I have your attention?

Sometime in 1997, I was discussing calendar control and judicial efficiency with one of my colleagues, Judge Amy Donner, who said that she was bifurcating most of her cases. After our conversation, I examined the trials in my division for the year 1995 and found that of the 40 jury trials, eight of them were slip-and-fall cases. Of these eight, seven resulted in a verdict for the defendant. It occurred to me that if we tried only liability, between seven and 14 days of jury time would have been saved, enabling us to try several more cases. Accordingly, I then decided to screen our cases and began bifurcating slip-and-fall cases only. I hope that this article will assist judges and attorneys in selecting those cases in which bifurcation would benefit litigants and attorneys, as well as the court. . . .

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Tech Tips for Document Review, Production, and Trial.

15 Tuesday Apr 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Discovery, Document Review, Exhibits, Legal Technology, Requests for Production, Subpoena Duces Tecum, Technology, Trial Tips and Techniques

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California State Bar, Cogent Legal Blog, Document Production, Document Review, Law Practice Management and Technology Section, Michael Kelleher, Trial, Trial Tips & Technology

5 Tech Tips for Document Review, Production and Use at Trial, by Michael Kelleher, Cogent Legal Blog

http://tinyurl.com/kv3jy3f

Mr. Kelleher not only shares the technology tips from his recent webinar, but is kind enough to offer his e-mail address and telephone number should you have any questions. Nice guy! -CCE

On Wednesday, April 9, I gave a webinar on technology tips for document review, production and use at trial for the Law Practice Management and Technology Section of the California State Bar. We’re going to be posting a few of the tips on the blog if you missed the webinar. You can also download a PDF of the slide deck with all 25 tech tips here. I hope that these tips save you some time. Email me (michael.kelleher@cogentlegal.com) or give me a call at 510-350-7616 if you have questions about this or any other aspect of litigation technology. . . .

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Tips for Presentations at Trial.

22 Sunday Dec 2013

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Legal Technology, Presentations, Trial Tips and Techniques

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Legal Technology, Litigation Support, Michael Skrzypek, Presentations, The Trial War Room Handbook Blog, Trial, Websites

Preparing Websites for Litigation Databases, by  Michael Skrzypek, The Trial War Room Handbook Blog

http://www.thetrialwarroomhandbook.com/?p=916

This post provides several excellent suggestions for website presentation in court. Regardless of the method, the last paragraph gives great advice – always have an offline back up! -CCE

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Going to Trial – Not Boxes of Documents Anymore.

23 Saturday Nov 2013

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Legal Technology, Pre-Trial, Presentations, Trial Tips and Techniques

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Databases, Michael Skzypek, Pre-Trial, The Trial War Room Handbook Blog, Trial, Trial Techniques

Pre-Trial and Presentation Databases – Assembling Your Materials, by Michael Skzypek, The Trial War Room Handbook Blog

 http://www.thetrialwarroomhandbook.com/?p=878

Back in the analog days, a parade of lawyers and paralegals would march into the courtroom right before a trial started, carrying dozens of bankers’ boxes filled with documents and other evidence. These days, attorneys in most medium-to-large cases digitize everything from contracts to deposition transcripts, photos, and video and organize them in databases. As such, a trial presentation technician walks into the courtroom carrying just a laptop – but one loaded with a database that contains the equivalent of hundreds of bankers’ boxes of material.

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Famous Trials

24 Thursday Oct 2013

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Trial Tips and Techniques

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Douglas Linder, Trial

Famous Trials, by Douglas O. Linder, Professor of Law (Seminar in Famous Trials 199-2013©), University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Law
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm

Link to “More Famous Trials” at bottom of page. (This is an educational and non-commercial site maintained at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School.)

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