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BECOME THE STEVE JOBS OF TRIAL PRESENTATIONS
It's a time-honored tradition to hand witnesses a document in court (and in depositions) so that you can ask them questions about it. But a trial is as much about optics as the facts and law. Imagine handing a witness your iPad displaying a document that the jury could also see on a large display. You'd look like the Steve Jobs of the legal profession. This coolness factor is now within the reach of any litigator.
ExhibitView iPad 4.0 … in One Sentence
Launched last month, ExhibitView iPad 4.0 is an iPad presentation app.
The Killer Feature
Tech-savvy litigators who use trial presentation software still hand witnesses paper documents for two reasons. First, if you're using traditional software it's awkward to hand a witness your laptop. Second, even if you're using an iPad, you can't risk the witness pressing the home button, displaying a different document, etc. You can display a document on a screen and have the witness testify about it, but this technique doesn't enable a witness to mark it up and lacks the psychological impact of tactile handling of the document.
ExhibitView iPad 4.0 features a new Deposition/Witness mode. It enables you to hand your iPad to a friendly or hostile witness without having to worry about them viewing anything but the displayed document, photograph, illustration, etc. The app also features a whiteboard on which you or the witness can draw and create demonstrative evidence on the fly — again, locked down.
You tap a button to enter Deposition/Witness mode, after which the screen rotates and locks the orientation, and provides a set of markup tools along the top that the witness can use for annotations. You can save any annotations to the case file and submit it as evidence without altering the original document.
"ExhibitView iPad's new groundbreaking Deposition/Witness Mode stems from our roots in trial consulting," Co-Founder William Roach told us. "Our trial presentation applications for iPad, Windows, and Mac give litigators more choices, flexibility, and power for for their presentation needs."
Other Notable Features
Also new is Max Viewing Size, which keeps your documents at the maximum size while projecting them (i.e., documents consume the entire screen). This makes it easier for the witness, jury, and others to see what you're displaying. According to the company, competing apps don't use the entire screen of the iPad from edge to edge.
Other features include support for retina iPads, improved callout and freehand drawing tools, the ability to zoom in with a tap, and more printing options.
You can use ExhibitView iPad on its own, but it also integrates with the company's two other applications — ExhibitView for PC and DepositionPro. With the former, you can create presentations on your PC and then move them to your iPad via iTunes (many litigators find it easier to present from an iPad, especially if the case is too small to warrant a trial consultant). With the latter, you can review and annotate deposition transcripts (including video), and then export clips you want to present into ExhibitView iPad.
What Else Should You Know?
ExhibitView iPad costs $49.99. You can obtain a discount via Apple's Volume Purchase Program. Learn more about ExhibitView iPad 4.0.
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