Legal Visuals / Demonstrative Aids

Design Vision provides graphics for litigation that make complex evidence easy to understand and remember. A simple graphic to help educate or support an an account or opinion can be instrumental and is a welcome help to a jury member struggling to understand a complicated argument.

Our reconstructions and visualizations validate eyewitness accounts or expert opinions and efficiently inform the legal team of key discoveries. Clear visuals also make a statement that the facts are on your side and you are fully prepared for court.

Services include research, analysis, and presentation of: site conditions, construction documents, relevant building codes or accessibility regulations, eyewitness accounts and expert witness opinions.

Forensic Consultant / Expert Witness

Design Vision’s owner, Chris LeBlanc, provides litigation consulting and expert witness services with a focus on premises liability, construction defects, and property damage. He is an ICC Certified Building Official with a Degree in Architecture and over 15 years of experience as a litigation consultant. For more information regarding forensic consulting services, please visit www.chrisleblanc.com

“Clear visuals make a statement that the facts on your side and you are prepared for trial”

Case Studies

Fall from Height

3D Reconstruction of Site
Animated Reenactment Comparing Body Size to Railing Spacing
Visualization of Expert Witness' Design Mitigation Suggestion
Integration of 3D Medical Scans Showing Injury

Roof Collapse

3D Reconstruction of Site
Security Footage Analysis
Animated Storyboard
Timeline / Graphing of Accumulated Rainfall and Weight on Roof
Building Code Research
Analysis of Opposing Expert's Opinion

Animated Storyboard of Eyewitness Testimony

An animated storyboard is a very flexible tool during mediation and in preparation for trial. In an animated storyboard we clearly document key points in the sequence of events, generally based on eyewitness testimony. Once clearly distilled in such a format, the plausibility of an eyewitness account can be effectively evaluated. If it is determined that a full motion animation is needed, the assets created for animated storyboards can be further developed for that purpose.

Educating the Jury: Construction Sequence

When making an argument that depends on clearly understanding a complex sequence of events, it is critical to simplify concepts as much as possible. This is a series of trial exhibits created to educate on the fundamentals of a construction sequence which was critical to the expert witness' argument. While photos of the construction existed, they seemed to confuse more than clarify, as can be seen in the last frame of this sequence.