War Room Advocate

Printers and copiers on just one side of room Sometimes it seems that this is all everyone cares about when you set up workspace for trial. Sure, people need to access the internet and get email, and they want a comfortable work area. There is something about printing at trial though, it starts right away and continues until that last person doesn’t need anything else so you can finally break down. I have made the joke at more than one trial that once people get there they will start to print “the library of congress.” It is a marvel how much printing goes on in earnest as soon as people sit down. This is one of the single greatest things you have to get right when you are planning for your group. You’ll need black and white printers, and color printer(s) as well as high speed copiers that can scan and hole-punch and staple and so forth. If you have to get rid of anything, lose the printers and keep the copiers. It’s not a bad idea to have both color and B&W copiers. Tru...

For this post I’m going to assume that we have a team of 10 to 15 or more people. It doesn’t matter if it’s 40 really, you just have to scale some things for simultaneous use. This list doesn’t really count for a small team of a handful of people. Once again, a group like that can work pretty much out of hotel rooms with a couple of small printers. I’ll work up a post in the near future about small teams and what they should consider bringing with them. For this one, I’m talking about having a team of attorneys, paralegals, assistants, experts, graphics, hot seat person and maybe consultants. You don’t have to have all of those groups at trial, but on large cases it wouldn’t be unusual to find those and more. Let’s get down to it, shall we? You know you’re going to need good bandwidth. Refer to some of my earlier posts where I talked about working to get those services. So, let’s assume you have good internet access. You have to build a network for your team, so that’s as good a...