Sanction® - Legal Presentation Software
What is Sanction?
Sanction by Verdict Systems is a “legal trial presentation software”. Sanction legal software, allows for the importation and organization of case files including exhibits, documents, graphics, photos, images, animations, videotaped depositions, deposition transcripts, synchronized deposition transcripts using popular files types such PowerPoint, PDF files, TIFF , JPG, DOC, XLS, MDB, ASCII, PTR, Summation and Concordance database integration and compatibility and much more. After using the Sanction interface to organize your case, Sanction uses an interactive presentation platform that allows the user to present documents, transcripts and video on screen. Additional Sanction presentation features include document highlighting, document callout and zooming, cropping, annotating, redacting, zoning and more. The Sanction presentation mode has four zones representing four quarters, areas or squares on the screen. These zones allow the user to call up files to different areas on the screen.
How Can Sanction Help Your Firm?
Sanction can help make a law firm’s trial presentation more organized and expandable. Firms that already have exhibits and documents in a digital format can import files into Sanction and start organizing their case. Sanction can be networked on a law firm’s in-house servers and Sanction can be used to code documents for permanent storage and archiving. We recommend that I law firm familiarizes their staff with Sanction and uses the program for scanning and organizing their case files, but when the case goes to trial, they call in a Sanction trial consultant and courtroom presentation specialist to help run multimedia and equipment. Typically, paralegals or legal assistants are not qualified to run software and presentations using different types of mediums in a high stress environment. However, should the need arise, Digital Contrast is available to train your law firm staff.
Sanction Organizes Documents and Exhibits
Sanction can perform high speed document scanning with naming, allowing a law firm to quickly scan in documents and label them according to exhibit numbers. Preferably scanned in as TIFF files, the TIFFS can then be annotated, rotated, categorized, placed in workbooks or folders, highlighted, redacted and much more. Sanction can scrub seamlessly through thousands of documents with the click of a mouse. Documents can then be coded and indexed for searchable capabilities.
Sanction Manages Deposition Transcripts and Video
Sanction allows users to import deposition transcript files in a number of standard formats. Typically when working with videotaped depositions in Sanction, the transcript is actually synchronized with the videotaped deposition timecodes. By searching a transcript for keywords, the corresponding video can also be played back. Deposition page-line designations can be created by selecting the page and lines in the transcript and creating a new clip, which automatically cues up the video clip. Multiple clips can be created making it possible to scroll the transcript with the video on screen. Every attorney has his or her own preference for scrolling text with the video. Sanction and TrialDirector offer several options related to showing deposition transcripts on the screen with videotaped depositions.
Sanction Presentation Mode
Sanction’s presentation mode is one of the best parts about the program allowing users to call up documents via keyboard commands, bar codes readers and drag & drop. Using the multiple screen feature, a presenter can continue to work in Sanction while exhibits and videos are playing on additional monitors.
Why Should a Firm Hire a Trial Presentation Specialist or Trial Consultant Versus Allowing In-House Staff to Run Sanction and Present Their Case in Court?
During most trials, it is usually recommended that law firm’s hire a presentation specialist because of several reasons:
- If your case has technical difficulties, you have to have someone qualified to troubleshoot the situation.
- An experienced trial presenter can often be a key component in helping demonstrate facts of a case to a jury.
- Often, a trial presentation specialist has been involved in more jury trials than an entire legal staff or even an experienced attorney’s entire career trials. . . . as a trial presentation specialist or trial consultant could be involved in 10, 20 or perhaps 30 trials to verdict per year.
- Legal assistants and paralegals have enough stress trying to keep up with attorneys. If they are concentrating on running technology, then they cannot fully respond to legal requests made from the attorney. Being able to operate Sanction or Sanction in an isolated environment is not the same as hooking up equipment in a changing or live environment. Technological mistakes can cost millions of dollars at trial.
