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There can be no words without images

The above quote from Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) is the Tao of visual communication. It has been a while since I posted here. Returning to law firm life has kept me very busy the last eight months. Additionally, my self-imposed writer’s block prevents me from publishing unless the content is substantive. I abhor bloggers who post one paragraph or a random thought. That just adds to my impending carpal tunnel generated by gratuitous clicking through rubbish. Anyway, I just completed a trial in Philadelphia and witnessed (no pun intended) a stunning example of visual communication at play. It inspired me to return to this blog and write a tad about my experience. For background, our case had a voluminous amount of data, to the sum of several hundred thousand pages. There were many parties involved, and it was a bench trial, much to the dismay of plaintiff’s counsel. Our judge was an elderly but scholarly man who was interested in the facts and not a sideshow. Therefore, we had the task of ...