The Death of Goliath
This article discusses the gradual death of the "Goliath effect" - or worrying that using computers in the courtroom will make you appear more wealthy rather than more persuasive. This is a dead issue, at least in the realm of technology. Given that more than 60% of Americans use the Internet, thoughtful use of technology is not going to alienate jurors. It's now in the lawyer's hands to use videoclips to remind jurors of important testimony, to zoom in and highlight critical sentences from 300 page documents, and to convert painfully dry statistics into charts and graphs that effectively communicate to the jury. These are important tools in the document-intensive world of commercial litigation.