CASE STUDIES
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How One of the Country’s Leading Trucking Attorneys Uses Visuals to Decimate the Defense and Convince Jurors
In trucking litigation, the defense wants complexity. They want jurors buried in driver logs, black box data, company policies, maintenance records, federal regulations, broker agreements, and expert testimony. The more technical the case feels, the easier it becomes for the…
Rollover Motor Vehicle Collision
When a violent crash leaves multiple passengers ejected from a vehicle, determining exactly how and why the collision occurred becomes critical. In this case, attorney Todd Schafer of Schafer & Schafer LLP represented passengers who suffered serious injuries in a…
How Construction Shortcuts Lead to a Traumatic Brain Injury
The stairway looked ordinary. But a closer examination revealed a series of construction failures that turned a routine descent into a life-altering fall. In a warehouse injury case, Focus Graphics produced several visuals, including brain injury summaries, a pre and…
Premises Liability: Holding Apartment Managers Accountable
On what should have been an ordinary walk through an apartment courtyard, a visitor stepped onto a concrete path beneath a canopy of trees. The shade made the walkway appear harmless. But beneath it, algae had been allowed to grow…
Interactive 3D Model Redirects Case Focus
In a contentious Arizona civil rights trial, Chicago attorney Tom Kayes faced a case in which the physical evidence told a different story than the one advanced by law enforcement. Kayes, of Loevy + Loevy, has built a career taking…
Seeing Is Believing: How Demonstratives Helped Deliver a $21+ Million Verdict
Complex cases are difficult enough to litigate. Explaining them clearly to a jury is often the bigger challenge. That was especially true in a wrongful death case arising from a fatal shooting in the parking lot of a national chain…
Confidential Settlement in UTV Rollover Case
Four-wheeling is an exciting and fun activity, allowing people to see backcountry landscapes they otherwise might not reach. When people buy these machines, it would be expected that they include all the safety features necessary to prevent injury. Unfortunately, this…
How Incorporating Dashcam Video and Animation Helped Secure a Historic $21 Million Semi-Truck Settlement in Kansas
Few cases are more devastating than those involving the loss of a child. For trial attorney Tom Dickerson, one of the most heartbreaking cases of his career involved a family whose lives were forever changed when a commercial semi-truck slammed…
How Accurate Medical Illustrations Can Be Used to Settle Cases and Return More Money for Plaintiffs
In serious injury cases, the truth is often found in the details. A torn ligament, a fractured vertebra, a surgical repair, nerve damage, internal bleeding, these are not just medical terms. They are the physical reality of what happened to…
Officer-Involved Shooting Results in $18.75M Verdict
Ten years after Mansur Ball-Bey was shot in the back by St. Louis police, the central question in the courtroom was not abstract. It was physical. The only witness for the victim was dead, all the other witnesses were cops,…
$10M Policy Limit in Swing Set Failure Case
Children playing on a swing set should be having a great time, laughing, seeing who can go the highest, and just enjoying the exhilaration of “flying” through the air. One 9-year old young girl was doing just that when the…
$3.6M+ Settlement in Negligence/Wrongful Death Case
A trash hauler found that his pull-out bar for removing the trash from his trailer was bent when he was at a recycling and transfer facility. Trying to be helpful, the excavator operator agreed to use his bucket to straighten…