When production ends, preparing for trial begins! Nextpoint discusses trial presentation tech tips you and your team need to know here!

As discussed in this blog post titled (wait for it!) Trial Presentation Tech Tips Every eDiscovery Team Should Know (written in this guest post by April J. Ferguson, CEO and Senior Trial Consultant at OPVEON and available here), By the time trial rolls around, most eDiscovery professionals have handed off their work and moved on to the next production deadline. But for trial consultants and courtroom techs, that’s where the work (and the fun!) begins.

Those folks live in the land of the hot seat work, document callouts, demonstrative blowups, and exhibit databases that need to work flawlessly in front of a jury. Here’s what they’ve learned: How your documents are produced during discovery can make or break trial presentation down the road.

So, April discusses six battle-tested trial presentation tips to keep in mind (if you’re part of an eDiscovery team that wants to be trial-ready, that is). Here’s one of them:

Consistent Bates Numbering is Key

Yes, it sounds basic, but inconsistent or duplicated Bates numbers are still one of the biggest pain points trial professionals see when prepping trial databases. Clean, non-overlapping, and consistently applied Bates numbering isn’t just a best practice, it’s critical for efficient exhibit management and seamless callouts during trial.

Shorter and cleaner Bates numbers are also better, both for your trial tech and for the trial record. Something like SMITH-000001 is far easier to manage than SMITH_PL_PROD0001_000001. Simplicity makes it easier for attorneys to call up exhibits on the fly and reduces the chance of errors in court.

So, what are five more trial presentation tech tips you and your team need to know? Find out here, it’s only one click! Here’s a tip for you: click or you won’t find out! 😉

So, what do you think? What does your organization do to facilitate trial presentation? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

Image created using Microsoft Designer, using the term “robot lawyer presenting a document exhibit on a big screen to a robot jury in court”.

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