Visual Legal Advocacy Roundtable 2007
2007-10-19
Philadelphia, United States
who it's for
public interest attorneys, criminal defense attorneys, trial lawyers, mediators and arbitrators, law clinic staff, documentary filmmakers, clemency and pardon advocates
topics
day-in-the-life films; settlement documentary production; video depositions and clips; surveillance footage discovery; clemency and pardon videos; student-produced legal films; low-cost visual media labs; courtroom admissibility foundations; animation for injury reconstruction; video conferencing for experts; rapid turnaround advocacy videos; media outreach and distribution
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Visual Legal Advocacy at Penn Law School-An Introduction | Michael Fitts, Regina Austin | 12m |
Claims that cheap digital video and storytelling let clients speak for themselves in mediations, clemency, administrative hearings and public campaigns, with… | ||
| Visual Advocacy Panel | Shanin Specter, Martin K. Brigham, Edward L. Edelstein | 31m |
A courtroom-tested method for compelling empathy: a day‑in‑the‑life film of a severely brain‑injured college student documents peg feeding, Lovenox injections… | ||
| Tips on Making a Settlement Documentary or Video Case Summary | Martin K. Brigham | 34m |
Practical how-to: makes 15–30 minute documentaries that accelerate settlement by showing liability and damages, preserves early news and hospital footage, and… | ||
| The Audience for Visual Legal Advocacy - Views of a Mediator/Arbitrator | Edward L. Edelstein | 27m |
Visual exhibits must match the audience: juries need emotional, shorter clips while mediators/arbitrators need clear, factual demonstrations. Examples: a… | ||
| Morning Roundup | Steve Pennington | 40m |
Practical rundown of how video changes cases: use of video conferencing to get remote expert testimony, cheap consumer cameras for client diaries, and a… | ||
| Making Criminal Defense Advocacy Videos-Backstories | Sarah Kunstler, Emily Kunstler | 01h 06m |
Documentary production company forms low-cost advocacy films that actually change cases and policy: a Tulia video exposing 46 people wrongfully convicted… | ||
| Clients As Media Makers and Their Own Visual Legal Advocates | Todd Wolfson | 24m |
Media Mobilizing Project builds a local media infrastructure in Philadelphia, trains 20–30 immigrant producers first, and ties training to low-cost internet… | ||
| Comments on the Jack Walker Video and More | Anne Kringel, Scott Braden | 23m |
A clemency video for Jack Dale Walker aims to show untreated mental illness to the pardon board and is shot in three weeks to shoot with two 18-hour editing… | ||
| Roundtable Roundup-Meeting the Challenge of Visual Legal Advocacy | Sharon Dietrich, Regina Austin | 36m |
A clemency project uses a student-produced pardon video to humanize a woman with drug convictions before a five-member Pennsylvania Board of Pardons, and the… | ||
| nothing matches | ||