Mark Lanier at Harvard

Mark Lanier recently gave an excellent "war stories" lecture to a Harvard Law Torts Class. Although the subject was how to be a great litigation lawyer generally, there's plenty of great examples and discussion on the use of PowerPoint at trial. Watch and learn.

PS--The professor also provides a great example of how not to introduce a guest speaker: First, read a long introduction so your audience knows you really don't know anything about this guy. Second, read it fast so everybody knows the actual practice of law is far beneath you.

Animation in PowerPoint

Ellen Finkelstein has a great tutorial on animation in PowerPoint.

Help Jurors Remember Your Witnesses

Trial Tips has a incredibly simple and useful suggestion for closing arguments: Take pictures of your witnesses, and use them to help the jury remember them. Brilliant!