Visual Communication in Your Legal Practice - On Demand CLE

Click here for Access Instructions for On Demand Programs. Each attendee must register individually as they will need their own login to access the event and comply with CLE requirements. The data is in: our attention spans are getting shorter. Since the invention of the smartphone—and with the proliferation of TikTok, Instagram Reels, and other short-form social media—humans have begun processing information differently than they once did: so much so that their decision making process often follows different neural pathways than it did in the days before the internet. So what does this mean for the trial lawyer? First the bad news: the juries you studied in law school simply do not exist anymore. The ways we were taught to advocate do not work. Long, exhaustive statements, and briefs full of heavily cited blocks of text, are relics of a bygone era. Both judges and juries report finding legal writing dull, dry, and tedious (and the same goes for long-winded opening statements an