Examples of Legal Concepts That Can Be Powerfully Explained With Visuals

Verbally explaining the ways in which a client’s injury has impacted their body can be a tedious process. You must not only relay all relevant facts, but you have to do so in a manner that is digestible for your target audience, most of whom likely have little knowledge of human anatomy and physiology.

With legal illustrations, you can break down what happened and how those circumstances caused, contributed to, or exacerbated your client’s injury. Conversely, if you are arguing the case for the defense, you can use courtroom animations to minimize your client’s liability by demonstrating how confounding factors contributed to the incident.

During complex or drawn-out cases, it can be tough to keep the audience engaged and accurately explain the sequence of relevant events. Even if you put together a compelling verbal argument that links the chain of events to the incident, there’s a good chance that your audience won’t recall most of your presentation. 

There’s a reason for this: Recall for orally presented information drops to just 10% three days after it's delivered. But if you add litigation animation to the mix, recall soars right back up to 65%. With custom trial graphics, you’ll be able to reinforce your message and increase the odds that your audience will remember key details when it comes time to render a verdict.

As you are well aware, legal cases are rarely cut and dry. There are often numerous aggravating and mitigating factors at play, which can make presenting compelling arguments for your client challenging. During the process, it’s vital that you properly highlight contributory factors that played an important role in the incident. Thankfully, legal graphics exceed that capacity. 

For instance, let’s say that your client was injured in a multi-vehicle crash, and you need to illustrate how the actions of the third vehicle exacerbated their injuries. In such a case, you could requisition a complete animated recreation of the incident and break down every aspect of the collision.

Explaining someone’s actions to a judge or jury and backing up those claims with impactful evidence can be tough enough on its own. Demonstrating that a person failed to do something can be even more complex, but it’s an essential part of negligence cases.

With the help of courtroom animations, you can illustrate acts of negligence by providing a side-by-side view of what the defendant should have done and what they actually did (or didn’t do). For example, if your client was injured due to an improperly maintained stairwell railing, you could showcase the severity of the defects by comparing images of the defective railing to pictures of properly maintained equipment.

Legal graphics are exceedingly useful for visualizing the subtle nuances between protected intellectual property and knock-off products that violate copyright laws or other legal protections. Through animations and motion graphics, you can educate your audience on the protected feature, mechanism, or functionality and then compare it to the product in question. 

Conversely, if you are representing the defense, legal graphics can help you demonstrate how your client’s product or design is tangibly distinct from the protected product.

Regardless of the field of law you operate within or the scope of your client base, legal graphics can add value to your presentations and help magnify your arguments. If you would like to learn more about the power of courtroom animations, connect with MediVisuals + High Impact, an award-winning design firm, to get started.