One week before starting a trial that would become the largest verdict of our careers, my law partner Matt Minner and I were still debating on how best to present our evidence. We had discussed it before, of course, but couldn’t quite come to agreement on the best approach to try a politically sensitive wrongful death case involving the tragic death of a young Alabama police officer, Daniel Golden. Our Birmingham-based firm, Hare, Wynn, Newell & Newton, represented Golden’s family and his estate in a civil wrongful death suit that followed the criminal adjudication of the case.
We had settled upon our theory of the case and narrowed down the list of documents to be used as trial exhibits. What we lacked was a comprehensive vision for presenting our evidence and our trial story. As with most cases we take to trial, we had predictably narrowed down our technology options for evidence presentation: inData’s TrialDirector (with a dedicated IT professional in the courtroom), or a low-tech approach with old-fashioned blow-up foam boards.
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