Millennials are often extremely valuable, hard-working additions to your trial team. We are sure many of our clients would agree, as we have gotten to work alongside quite a few truly impressive young trial attorneys.
Their valuable Millennial skillset tends to include an inherent grasp of technology and visual presentation, given that they have been using it nearly their entire lives. As a result, it is reasonable to look at your young-gun attorneys and think, “Hey, they know how all this works; they can certainly handle running our presentations at trial!”—or, indeed, for the young gun to offer to do so themselves. We are all trying to save money for our clients, so thinking of a Millennial attorney as a budget hot seat option makes complete sense.
(Graphic courtesy of IMS Senior Graphic Designer John Ilg)
It is true that many young attorneys probably can be your hot seat operator. But that is not only a risky move, it is also arguably a significant misuse of their talents and their time in court. First, complex technology requests and unexpected problems are likely to occur, and second, your budding attorneys cannot absorb the minutiae of case strategy and trial techniques with their heads buried in a PowerPoint presentation.
Encountering Tech Issues in the Courtroom
Based on our more than 30 years of courtroom presentation experience, our team has come to expect the following technological complications at trial.
