Helping you fight from the trenches.

War Room

Because we have worked on so many trials—and in so many war rooms, we bring a breadth of experience and depth of calm where and when it is needed most. We know what trials are like, we know what attorneys need, and over the past 30 years we have developed ways of working with trial teams that ensures efficiency, effectiveness, and equanimity in even the toughest situations.

The Focal Point can help you set up a war room and figure out who should be there and when. Working with you and your team during trial, we can also help you: refine your opening statements and key testimony; create or update your graphics; prepare your witnesses; assist you in finalizing your presentation materials; and lend guidance as you develop your closing argument. We can also work with your expert witnesses to help them develop and refine their presentations, so they can provide more persuasive testimony to judges and juries.

The Focal Point provides experienced team members for every aspect of trial support:

• Case Managers—Our case managers work with the attorneys on strategy and actively lead graphics development. They are familiar with the case’s themes, theories, and players, which makes them invaluable partners in the war room.
• Graphic Designers—The need for creating trial graphics does not end once trial starts.  If anything, design needs can become more intense, as attorneys and witnesses suddenly discover they need material they had not planned on or as a judge’s issue orders mandate last-minute changes to graphics that took months to create. Our graphic designers have experience in all of these areas, and are able to respond to your needs as your trial progresses.
• Trial Technicians—These presentation experts set up the courtroom so that lawyers and witnesses have everything they need to present their evidence and arguments, working with courtroom staff to make sure that technology is set up appropriately and works reliably. They run the equipment during trial to make sure that the right image is on the screen at the right time. In the war room they maintain the trial database; edit deposition video, that will be played during court; and rehearse with lawyers and witnesses to ensure that your presentation is seamless.

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