About California Technical Media — California Technical Media

Track Record

Trials and Settlements Our Visuals Supported

The outcomes belong to the trial teams. We produced the visuals they used.

$38.1M Verdict · Product liability Vanderventer v. Hyundai Seat defect animation. Wisconsin’s largest single-plaintiff compensatory award, affirmed by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Case study → $35M Settlement · Personal injury Peshek v. Hub Group Trucking Interactive 3D injury presentation for plaintiff’s trial counsel. An Illinois record for a pedestrian case. Case study → $563M+ Settlements · Antitrust MDL In re CRT Antitrust Litigation MDL No. 1917, N.D. Cal. Pricing, cartel-meeting timeline, corporate-structure and damages graphics for plaintiff class counsel. Case study → $5.7M Verdict · Medical malpractice Premature discharge, wrongful death Clark County, Nevada. Litigation visuals for plaintiff’s trial counsel. Case study →

Other matters include McRO, Inc. v. Bandai Namco Games America (patent) and The State v. Oscar Pistorius (criminal defense). Most of our work is under protective order and cannot be shown. Ask us about experience in your practice area.

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Change Control

When the Case Changes

Experts revise, rulings come down, theories shift. Here is how a change moves through our studio, who does what, and where you keep control.

Choose a situation

Timing depends on the change and, for animation, on render time. We agree the schedule for each matter at the start, working back from your dates.

How we work, step by step →

Who Is on Your Matter

Senior People, Start to Finish

The two people you speak with before you retain us are the two people who run your matter.

Founder & Creative Director · Case strategy

Ari Zahavi, J.D.

Works with trial counsel and experts on what the fact-finder must understand, and in what order.
Writes storyboards in terms of elements, foundation and admissibility.
Twenty years and 1,600+ matters. Presents CLE programs on demonstrative evidence.

Director of Operations · Your producer

Elena Borodina

Keeps the change log and the version record for every exhibit.
Schedules backward from your dates and tells you early what is realistic.
Delivers in the formats your trial tech specifies, with backups. Twelve years in litigation graphics production.

Meaning first, graphics second

We start from what the fact-finder must understand, remember and decide. The format follows from that, not the other way around.

The attorney leads

We develop your concept, propose approaches you may not have considered, or execute exactly as directed. Your theory of the case sets the direction.

Planned from your dates

We plan backward from the hearing or trial date and tell you at the start what fits in the time available.

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Engagement Terms

Settled Before Work Starts

A budget you can explain to your client, agreed before production starts.

Fixed scope and price

You approve both before production starts. No open-ended engagements.

Your dates are reserved

Each phase is prepaid, which puts your dates on our production calendar.

Refinements included

Changes within the original scope are part of the price.

New work quoted first

New visuals, major redesigns or added scenarios are quoted and approved before we start them.

Rush priced in advance

If the timeline is compressed, you know the rate before you decide.

Confidentiality

Sealed and confidential material is handled on the terms of your protective order. A first conversation needs none of it.

A trial graphics team that has been here before