Without disclosing anything confidential, could you share maybe a moment where you would be especially proud of what you were able to contribute and the outcomes that you were able to bring?ĭahm: Sure. Without disclosing anything confidential, you’ve had a very lengthy career, Jeff, a lot of interesting trials, a lot of interesting moments. There is a seamless operation that a good trial tech does in court and the same seamless operation can happen in the online hearing, and it’s the same sort of method to keep things running smooth just like you do in a courtroom.īarber: Very interesting. There’s little things like when you press … When you start the PowerPoint, that you don’t have the speaker view on the screen, you have to switch. And I would imagine, let’s say we’re in a virtual environment or a virtual hearing, that stuff is very visible, right? If there’s a glitch in something.ĭahm: Yes, you’ve got to be smooth. You still have those things that are going to have to happen and the trial presentation consultant can help you with those.īarber: Nice. I mean there’s a lot of stuff that happens in trial that’s technical that doesn’t actually happen in the trial. If you have to show video clips in your hearing, the trial presentation consultant can help you edit those clips, get them together, organize them. Make sure that if you want to show something in OnCue or Trial Director, make sure that the documents come up right, make sure the video looks good. Practice.ĭahm: I mean you would need to practice in person, you’re going to want to practice with an online hearing. They look effortless in court because they practice and you should do the same thing with your consultant if you have an online hearing. The good attorneys that know what it’s about, practice. Just like in a war room, you do run-throughs, run-throughs and run-throughs. Hire them, send them the PowerPoint, run the PowerPoint and you watch it click through, so you can see what the client … what the judge is going to see, what the other opposing counsel is going to see. Make sure it looks good on the other end. Schedule a Zoom meeting with your trial presentation consultant to run through a program. Have them help you make sure that everything works. Call them up, have them assist you in the video conferencing platform. Trial presentation consultants are quite familiar with the way the video conferencing software works. You were talking about other folks in the industry who have those hot seat trial presentation skills for attorneys, for clients, what should they be … I mean are there things that a traditional trial presentation consultant could do right now that can help attorneys feel a little more confident, a little more prepared when they’re going into those virtual meetings, virtual events? We’re having very high stakes meetings and events but in a totally virtual environment. Teresa Barber: So, Jeff, tell me, we’re in a really interesting time and you mentioned this just a couple of moments ago that so many people are in very new environments. In this episode of the IMS Insights Podcast, we speak with trial presentation advisor Jeff Dahm about his perspective as a hot seat operator and his role during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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