COVID-19 Surge Temporarily Suspends Miami-Dade Jury Trials and In-Person Hearings

Due to the surge of COVID-19 cases in South Florida, Miami-Dade Chief Judge Nushin Sayfie ordered the suspensions of in-person hearings and jury trials on Thursday, September 2, 2021. The Court Ordered suspension of in-person trials and hearings is set to expire on September 17, 2021. Although jury trials have been suspended, mediations, arbitrations, depositions and zoom hearings will move forward.

Now is the time for litigators to sharpen their knives and thoroughly prepare their war chests for trial. Experienced litigation attorneys in Miami, Broward, and West Palm Beach understand that visuals and demonstratives increase a juror's capacity to understand and retain information presented to them at trial. Although most, if not all litigation attorneys will use either technology or trial exhibit boards, it is critical that the graphics and exhibits enhance your case instead or detracting from it. That is why it is imperative that an experienced, professional and reliable trial graphics company such as APVisuals become part of your litigation team. Moreover, APVisuals is not simply sitting behind a computer to run technology in the courtroom, we are facilitating how you tell your client's story. APVisuals helps arrange your stage and makes sure that all the back stage steps are handled to ensure that the play that you are about to put on for jurors runs smoothly.

APVisuals with it vast experience participating in cases dealing with motor vehicle accidents, negligent security accidents, medical malpractice issues, slip and fall accidents, breach of contract issues and criminal cases can help work with your team to create custom trial exhibits, timelines, medical illustrations, animations, infographics, and blow-ups that add value to your case. We will also work with you to determine if your case would benefit from a document management software such as trial director to easily identify documents at trial.

APVisuals employees have an advanced understanding of Word, Power Point, Keynote, Trial Director and other presentation software. They are ready to perform video edits in the courtroom. They can also perform edits to multimedia presentations on the spot. They can highlight key point of medical documents while questioning witnesses and/or presenting to the jury. Because APVisuals' employees have these attributes, our client attorneys are only left with the worry of developing their legal arguments rather than technology during trial. Accordingly, since attorneys are not fumbling with projectors, laptops, etc. they are able to connect with jurors and present their cases seamlessly. By presenting a smooth case, Jurors will likely have confidence in your capability only increase your credibility.