Cogent Legal

3D Animation brings your case to life. If there is a more persuasive tool than a video animation, we have yet to discover it. 3D Animations by Cogent Legal allow you to take what is often no more than a single critical moment and expand it into a highly detailed and richly illustrated retelling. Our visuals have won favorable verdicts and sizeable settlements by bringing clarity to the once complex and abstract.

Welcome to Cogent Legal - A message from our founder Morgan Smith thrives at the juncture of law and art. A successful litigator for nearly two decades, he combined his love of the law with his passion for visual and digital arts, founding Cogent Legal in 2011. Now he helps other attorneys hone their strategies and translate their stories into compelling, creative, and cogent visuals for trial.

At Cogent Legal, one of the first questions we ask a potential client (before doing any work) is what source material is available to use? Specifically, what digital imagery is available? I refer to digital imagery broadly to include both photographs and video. This is crucial whether your case is based on personal injury, construction defect, or any other matter where the physical location is key to the underlying issues. Obtaining and using that digital imagery, and measuring data well, can be the difference between winning and losing. There is nothing more critical for recreating a scene than the evidence obtained and captured immediately following, during, or after an incident [...] Read more: https://cogentlegal.com//proper-digital-discovery-part-ii/

In my previous article, we started the discussion with digital imagery and issues surrounding how best to obtain it. This post will focus on electronic measuring data technology. Electronic measuring data technology encompasses a huge array of equipment available in today’s market, but in a general sense, is any device that records data useful in the reconstruction of a scene, accident, construction site, construction defect or the like. For an attorney practicing in such are...a of the law, it is critical to understand what this technology is, and how to obtain it, and how it can be used. Read more: https://cogentlegal.com//proper-digital-discovery-part-ii/

Since I first started practicing law back in 1993, the process of collecting evidence for cases underwent a seismic change. Moving my career from litigator to CEO of Cogent Legal has allowed me to be in a very unique position of not only seeing the change, but also being a part of it. A major aspect of regular conversations I have with attorneys includes the topic of how to strengthen and present their case, with the most ideal outcome in mind, using cutting-edge technologies... that have evolved into today’s litigation environment. This post will be part of a series, where each post will focus on a modern evidence gathering technique, with the first post featuring one of the most prevalent forms of evidence collected: Photography. Read more: https://cogentlegal.com//how-to-obtain-proper-digital-dis/

Great day at the CAJAPA Golf Tournament!

This video involved the re-creation of the entire scene in a 3D environment and accurate lighting.

https://cogentlegal.com/2018/08/demonstratives-admitted-3/

Enjoyed the panel discussion with Michael Kelleher on how a #soloattorney or #smallfirms can beat #biglaw at trial by leveraging visuals, story telling, and #trialtechnology. Thanks to The Bar Association of San Francisco for an interesting conference!

These are great! Best Apps for lawyers... check it out: https://www.clio.com/blog/apps-for-lawyers/