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The Benefits of Flash in the Courtroom

By G. Christopher Ritter
August 27, 2007

In the September 2005 edition of LJN's Legal Tech Newsletter, my colleagues and I published an article touting the benefits of Flash. We described using Flash to design a single platform from which our client displayed all of its trial graphics/exhibits and eventually won over $400 million.

Still a bit intoxicated from victory, we boldly predicted a bright and expanding future for Flash. While we conceded back then that Flash use was 'still in its infancy,' we were sure it would rapidly 'become a highly accepted and expected courtroom technology' that sophisticated lawyers would increasingly use to 'organize their cases, display trial graphics, create effective 2-D animations, educate judges, and persuade jurors.'

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