Visuals Matter

Article
Summer 2021
The Advocates' Journal
Jennifer Brevorka

The pandemic's emphasis on written motion submissions, coupled with workdays spent at home, means we frequently argue motions with written submissions, read on screens, but not paper. Now more than ever, judges are seeing arguments, not hearing them.

Science has demonstrated that images help a reader remember arguments. One study established that the average person recalls 87 percent of information presented visually, but only 10 percent of information presented with words. 

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