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Live Seminar: Boot Camp for Computer-Assisted Visual Trial Presentations

Date: August 8, 2008
Time: 8:30a.m.-5:00p.m.

This Seminar Has Reached Capacity - We Cannot Take Registrations!
You can call Jean Merrill at 803 771-0333 x125 or email her at jmerrill@scbar.org to be put on a wait list

Seminar Agenda
8:30 a.m. Registration
9:00 a.m. Why You Need to Learn about Computer-Assisted
Visual Trial Presentations and How Using Presentation
Software Can Make You a More Effective Advocate
William E. Booth III, Esquire
9:15 a.m. Demonstrative Evidence in South Carolina Courts
Professor James F. Flanagan
10:15 a.m. Presentation of Hypothetical Cases and
Installation of Software
William E. Booth III, Esquire
1. Review of Evidence Included on CD-ROM for creating a Closing Argument
    a. Hypothetical Automobile Accident Case
    b. Hypothetical Horse Barn Construction Case
2. Loading Software Furnished on Thumb Drive:
    a. MS Movie Maker 2 for Windows XP
    b. Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0
    c. SnagIt Screen Capture and Editing
    d. Audacity
10:30 a.m. Mid-morning Break
10:45 a.m. A View of How Visual Trial Presentations Helped
Lawyers Win Cases
Alex Rosen
1. High Tech from Day One
2. PowerPoint Presentations: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
3. How TimeMap Can be Transferred to PowerPoint Slides
11:00 a.m. Visual Trial Presentation Hardware
Alex Rosen
1. The Best and Cheapest Camcorder
2. The Best and Cheapest Projector and Screen
3. Other Devices used for PowerPoint Presentations
11:15 a.m. Session I – Advanced PowerPoint Techniques –
Importing Other Applications, Creating Custom Charts, Advanced Drawing
Techniques, Creating Templates; Using Multimedia Effects, Including
Sound and Video to Produce a Professional, Effective Presentation
Stacy Jemott-Hunt
12:15 p.m. Networking Lunch (Included)
1:15 p.m. Session II – Advanced PowerPoint Techniques – Continued
Stacy Jemott-Hunt
2:15 p.m. Creating a Presentation for a Closing Argument – Group Sessions
3:45 p.m. Mid-afternoon Break
4:00 p.m. Bringing it all Together: PowerPoint Presentations and Evaluation
Walter B. Todd, Jr., Esquire
J. Lewis Cromer, Esquire
5:00 p.m. Adjourn

About the Seminar
This interactive workshop is designed to provide busy litigators with the tools to create their own automated visual trial presentations - on a budget! Using your own laptop and working in teams, you will learn the advantages, techniques, and shortcuts to take your demonstrative evidence to a new level of effectiveness for your next trial. Each team will be assigned one of two case scenarios complete with digitized legal documents, deposition testimony, photos and video from which they will put together an automated trial presentation, which will be presented and critiqued at the end of the day.

Each registrant will be provided with a thumb drive already loaded with software for creating powerful audio and video trial presentations and for saving their day’s work. The thumb drives are generously provided by Thomson-West Publishing and Ford Douglass. Registrants will also be provided with a CD-ROM with evidence to be used for creating a closing argument. Step-by-step instruction and detailed reference materials by Stacy Jemott-Hunt of Midlands Technical College will be provided on how to create a PowerPoint presentation using the evidence and software that you will load onto your computer. Wireless Internet access will also be provided.

If you’re tired of the same old "talking head" CLE seminars and you want to "learn by doing’" in a fun, small group, interactive atmosphere, this is the program for you! Not only will you take away the skills and knowledge to create your own visual trial presentation, but you’ll get lots of free software and some of the best one-on-one instruction to be had on trial technology anywhere!

WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING:
* Your own laptop pre-loaded with PowerPoint 2002 or
   higher or Office 2004 for the MAC or higher

WHAT YOU WILL GET:
* A free thumb drive loaded with Microsoft MovieMaker 2
   for Windows XP (Vista operating systems include MovieMaker)
* Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0
* SnagIt Screen Capture and Editing
* Audacity

Mandatory CLE (MCLE) credit hours
This program qualifies for 6.0 MCLE credit hours
Sign up today! Seating is limited to the first 30 registrants!

Event Type: Seminars