Technological advances in information management have created exciting and productive trends in the legal industry. Any litigator knows about the volumes and volumes of documentary evidence that can and does get produced in litigation. Managing all that information effectively and then presenting it in a powerful presentation is what lawyers try to do every day.

Thus it's crucial for a modern law firm to stay up-to-date with the rapidly evolving technology designed to make life easier for attorneys in all fields of practice.

Documents that are going to be used in a trial can now be placed on CD-ROM, which is then carried to the courtroom. With a laptop computer, special software, plus monitors linking the participants, documents, videos, photos, reenactments and models can be presented in an extremely effective manner.

Courtroom technological innovations are now enhancing local, state and federal courtrooms in the Charlotte area which is now home to the state's first Computer Integrated Courtroom (CIC).

In addition to the type of information management described above, the CIC includes numerous innovations designed to benefit attorneys, judges, court personnel, witnesses, jurors and ultimately help the entire justice system save time and effort.

While state-of-the-art court reporting and video presentations are incredibly useful to the legal community, other innovations are proving to be useful to the litigator. These include real-time reporting through the internet, interpreters, single source billing and management reporting.

With all the changes happening in the field of information technology, and the demands on litigators increasing every day, lawyers in all specialties can benefit from and should keep up with all the latest advances.