Preparing for Trial with Technology—

Since opening its doors in 2001, Rockwood & Noziska LLP has won over $95,000,000 in settlements and verdicts for its clients. The firm believes that a good settlement is always better than a great trial verdict —but it must be a good settlement.

However, the firm typically advises its clients that litigation should be the last resort, and considered only after all efforts to solve the problem have been exhausted. The firm does not take a case purely to pressure a principle, and before it does commit, it carefully evaluates each case and client. But if going to trial is a must, the firm carefully assembles a team tailored to the particulars of that case, and prepares for it using technologies that help level the playing field. The depositions are videotaped, and then every nuance and detail of the recording is scrutinized. Digging deep like this helps the team discover the most hidden and most valuable truths in each case.

Rockwood & Noziska LLP uses technology to the full, and is always seeking faster, and more direct ways to identify pressure points and evidence. As example, the firm pioneered the use of electronic presentation of evidence in trial, and was among the first to use laser discs and barcodes to present and depict videotaped depositions, impeachments, segments, animations, photographs, video footage, documents, charts, etc.

By introducing technology to law, Rockwood & Noziska LLP helped change how trials are conducted all over the country. As example, in the case of Del Coronado Santee v Larry Lawrence, et al, the trial judge, Kevin Midlam, told the jurors on the first day of trial “you will be a part of history”—and they were. Since then, the firm has helped pioneer the use of legal search websites that allow quick review of hundreds of thousands of pages of critical documents, which are then shared with our co-counsel and experts.