Category Archives: Litigation

Jury Misconduct From Internet Research

We’ve written about the prevalence of this problem before and now it has hit closer to home. A friend of mine, Garry Adams, tried the taser-related death of Larry Noles in federal court a few weeks ago. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the officer who used the Taser on Mr. Noles. Two [...]

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Papershow – Finis Interviewed in Wall Street Journal

We had mentioned Canson’s Papershow in our post back in August 2009 and now Finis has been interviewed for an article in today’s Wall Street Journal on ways small businesses are using technology. This great little piece of technology is basically a digital whiteboard which allows you to draw on paper with a special pen, [...]

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BeenVerified – iPhone Background Checks

BeenVerified.com is a service which has been getting a lot of attention in the press lately and they now have an iPhone app!  BeenVerified.com offers background checks which include social media usage, marriage and divorce search, relative search, property valuation and state criminal searches.  The service is far from perfect, but does offer users a [...]

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ABA Journal’s Top 100 Blawgs Posted

Once again, the ABA Journal has listed the “Top 100 Blawgs” of the year and once again TechnoEsq has not ‘made the cut’. TechnoEsq deserves to the in the Top 100 Blawgs, we covered the ABA TechShow in Chicago last year fending off ABA administration attempts to nix our video interviews of strange and [...]

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Google Free Caselaw Research

You may have heard already, but Google has decided to enter into the legal research field with it’s Google Scholar search (see official announcement here). The service features caselaw from:
State Appellate and Supreme Courts since 1950
US Federal District, Appellate, Tax and Bankruptcy since 1923
US Supreme Court since 1791
The search can be limited to legal [...]

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Social Media in the Judicial System

Unless hiding under a rock, every attorney has heard the speakers and read the articles on the necessity of using social media in their legal practice. Social media, be it Twitter, Facebook, etc… has been touted as the ‘next big thing’ in marketing and it is obvious why it is something the legal profession needs [...]

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Family Reaches $5 Million Settlement

It was recently announced that the Kentucky family who sued the federal government after the father and daughter were swept over a waterfall at a national park settled for $5 million. John Cox, Esq., one of Louisville’s leading trial attorneys of Lynch, Cox, Gilman & Mahan, P.S.C., represented the Estate. TechnoEsq Presentations is [...]

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Trial Videos

Some of you have astutely noticed that our Trial Videos page is down. In fact, it was “held hostage” by our previous host provider and that is the reason for the site being down since the switch over to G2WebMedia by Technoesq and TechnoEsq Presentations.
Since the site has to be completely rebuild from scratch, [...]

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PaperShow – An Affordable Interactive Whiteboard for Attorneys

Often in litigation, I find it necessary to have a deponent or a witness draw a particular scene or object in order to adequately show the listener or jury in understanding what is being described. Most often, this occurs in either motor vehicle collisions or premises liability cases where the location of witnesses, my client, [...]

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GTD For Legal: Capturing and Transforming “Stuff” into Next Action Items

As many of you know, I use RocketMatter as my case management program for my legal practice.  Being a solo practitioner who is often moving from place to place, a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution such as RocketMatter greatly enhances my ability to have access to my client data from any location via my [...]

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