Services
AV Settlement Brochures
Typically, settlement brochures present the specifics of your case to the opposing side to help motivate a settlement. Creating the brochure as an audio-visual documentary helps the opposition recognize for themselves the human emotion that will also affect the outcome of the case should it go to trial. These video-based documentaries establish the traumatic event of the case – such as a tragic accident – showing both the causes and results. Opposing counsel frequently welcome the use of AV settlement brochures to help them persuade stubborn clients that settlement is in their best interests.
Just as in a public television documentary, the AV settlement brochure incorporates photography, news footage, illustrations, animations, crucial interviews with key witnesses, video depositions … literally any visible or audible evidence in the case … into a cohesive and logical audio-visual film designed to move and persuade.
A well-established component of the AV settlement brochure is the “day-in-the-life” video. To fully demonstrate the daily results of a traumatic event, a videographer documents a typical day in the life of individuals or families who have suffered due to this event. Again, the power of the human emotion inherent in the case is demonstrated, offering a rare “jury-eyed view” of the evidence.
Legal Avenue can fully produce an AV settlement brochure tailored to the specific needs of your case. With the technology available today, Legal Avenue recommends mastering the finished documentary to DVD, which allows the recipient either to view it in its entirety from beginning to end, or to interactively select a desired chapter within the whole.
To inquire about the cost of producing an AV settlement brochure for your case, email us to set up an appointment or call 812-282-9100.
Courtroom Presentations
When going to trial, Legal Avenue can support your audio-visual needs by providing a full range of presentation tools: from simple powerpoint presentations to complex animations or interactive random-access video. Legal Avenue can format your presentation materials, such as court-introduced video deposition excerpts, so that you can submit any of your AV-based evidence interactively on just a moment’s notice.
Additionally, Legal Avenue can take all pre-existing or custom-made AV materials into the courtroom to present them on audio-visual monitors and/or screens as necessary. A standard set-up includes a large video monitor or projection screen for the jury, a medium-sized video monitor for the judge, and smaller video monitors for defense and plaintiff counsel. Legal Avenue also provides immediate interruption capability to follow an order to abruptly halt the playback of any material.
All courtroom presentation set-ups are supported by knowledgable and reliable Legal Avenue experts, who installs and operates all equipment. We configure all components of the installation to prevent unwanted interruption of the AV presentation for any reason. Legal Avenue expects the unexpected: our installations include presentation equipment that can playback unconventional speeds (such as LP or SLP) or even non-US video standards (such as PAL or SECAM) upon immediate request.
To inquire about Legal Avenue’s trial presentation services, email to set up an appointment, or call 812-282-9100.
Video Dispositions
Attorneys throughout the country increasingly rely on videotaped depositions to augment the work of court reporters. Well-captured video depositions provide an extra dimension of testimonial evidence: transcribed words alone do not capture the demeanor of the deposed or the nuances of meaning implicit in their responses. Furthermore, as AV support has become more affordable than ever, videotaped depositions provide valuable material for use in either AV settlement brochures or as court-introduced evidence in AV courtroom presentations.
Each videotape displays the date, time of day, as well as ongoing time code (hour:minute:second) for each deposition. Legal Avenue supplies a carefully written log of objections, and times going off & back on record.
Digital technology now offers attorneys remarkable tools for accelerating the work of discovery: video depositions fully-synchronized to court reporters’ transcriptions.
Picture this on your computer screen: next to the actual transcription plays the matching video of that deposition. Navigation through the transcripts and simultaneous matching video is as easy as a mouse click. For a nominal fee, Legal Avenue can supply the synchronized testimony and video in a unique Windows-based media player that works on most PC’s.
If finding a location for the deposition is a problem, ask about Legal Avenue’s video deposition suite. Our quiet and comfortable studio can accommodate conventional depositions (the deposed, 2 counsel, a court reporter, the videographer). A remote waiting room keeps others from hearing confidential testimony while awaiting their turns to testify.
Legal Avenue assures a technically superior recording. We faithfully follow federal and state rules as well as standards set forth by the National Court Reporters Association regarding recording legal video. (Please visit our “About” page regarding NCRA certification.) The recordings are conducted by appropriately-attired, courteous videographers, who ensure neutrality and full compliance with Federal and State rules regarding video recording of depositions. Each deposition is recorded onto two originals: 1 digital, 1 VHS or SVHS. At the completion of the deposition, the VHS original is immediately available for release to the hiring counsel. Other interested parties can order dubs made from the digital original.
Other formats are available upon request for a nominal fee: audiocassettes, audioCD , video CD, DVD video, and other options.
RATE SCHEDULE
First hour: $200 Each additional hour $100
Travel fee: Travel out of the Louisville, Kentucky/Southern Indiana area: .55/mile
Appearance Fee: $75.00 if videographer arrives to deposition destination and is informed of cancellation or postponement prior to setting up equipment. $200.00 if videographer arrives to deposition destination, sets up equipment and is ready to go on the record before receiving notice of the cancellation or postponement.
CERTIFIED COPIES
2-hour VHS: $50 each
2-hour DVD: $50 each
4-hour DVD: $85 each
Turnaround time for copies is normally 2-3 days. A next day rush is 100% additional.
NOTE: Our policy is to deliver to the hiring attorney first, then fulfill subsequent orders same day.
SYNCHRONIZED VIDEO TO TRANSCRIPT
Rate: $120 per media hour. (E.g., a two-hour, 30-minute deposition = $300)
Turnaround time for Sync’d video CD is 1 week from availability of ascii transcript from court reporter. Inquire for rushes.
To schedule Legal Avenue for an upcoming video depositon, fax or email us your notice with the specific dates, times, and location as well as the case, court and caption information. Please mention the maximum number of participants who require the use of a microphone at any one time. (For example: 5 deposed, 4 counsel max).
Day-in-The-Life Videos
A Day-in-the-Life video presents a experiential video documentary focused on the day-to-day life of a particular person, usually a person injured in an auto accident or through the neglect of another party.
Depending on the specifics of a case, a Day-in-the-Life video can sharpen the viewer’s awareness of the full meaning of the changes that have come about as a result of an accident, an illness, or of medical malpractice.
To inquire about producing a Day-In-The-Life video for your case or to request a sample of our work, email or call 812-282-9900.
AV Services
Digital Location Photography including Aerial Photography
Litigation Graphics and Animations
Educational and Promotional Video Programs
Video Transfers and Conversions to Video CD, DVD and other formats
Synchronized Video to ASCII Transcripts on Video CD and DVD