NEWS

  • October 19, 2009

    SUSAN MANNO JOINS CASESIGHT, INC.  AS NEW DIRECTOR OF TRIAL SERVICES

    CaseSight, Inc. is pleased to announce that Susan Manno has joined the firm as Director of Trial Services. Working closely with CaseSight’s leading presentation consulting team, Ms. Manno will ensure seamless integration of the Company’s unique end-to-end case presentation offering, focusing on expert trial-site delivery of CaseSight’s winning case presentations.

    Ms. Manno brings over 28 years of deep, broad litigation, technology, government, and corporate experience to the CaseSight management team. She has served as an expert consultant on some of the highest profile criminal cases in recent US legal history, as well as on high stakes patent cases concerning top tier Fortune 500 corporations.  She also recently served the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and the US Attorney General’s office in extremely sensitive national legal considerations in 2005. 

    Ms. Manno brings deep corporate consulting experience to CaseSight, as well, having helped several large corporations strengthen internal business units to bring successful new offerings to market. In addition, she was appointed to the Federal District of Manhattan and the Supreme Court of New York to assist in the development of the computer-integrated courtroom.

    “Susan Manno is, without question, one of the most accomplished litigation consultants in the business,” says CaseSight CEO Joe Abely. “Her powerful combination of litigation consulting, technology, and corporate expertise matches CaseSight’s unique positioning and offering perfectly.  And she brings a depth of knowledge and experience to our Trial Services practice that will ensure crystalline delivery of CaseSight’s focused, integrated case presentations at trial.”

    “CaseSight’s end-to-end, fully integrated approach to case presentation is unique in class, and offers high value litigants powerful advantage in case presentation strategy and design,” says Ms. Manno, “I look forward to working closely with CaseSight’s presentation consultants to seamlessly channel that expert strategy and design into flawless presentations at trial.”

  • September 14, 2009

    ANDY FULHAM JOINS CASESIGHT, INC AS NEW BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

    Andy Fulham has joined CaseSight, Inc. as the Company’s new Business Development Manager for its Chicago-Midwest team. In this role, Fulham will lead CaseSight’s effort to aggressively grow its business in the expanding Midwest litigation consulting market.

    Mr. Fulham brings to CaseSight over 13 years’ experience as an accomplished litigation sales leader, with expertise in all critical phases of litigation business development, management, and operations.  A litigation technology expert, he served 4 years at AMLAW 100 firms creating sales data and operations databases that significantly improved sales efficiencies.  With annual sales regularly exceeding $2 Million, and a record of crushing sales benchmarks, he has earned The President’s Club award year after year since 2003, and received the coveted Rainmaker Award at the ACC Conference in Seattle in 2008.

    “Andy Fulham is a sales natural with the litigation expertise, technical skill, and energy we need to make our Midwest sales effort more efficient and effective.” says CaseSight CEO Joe Abely.  “With his deep understanding of the litigation consulting market and his demonstrated sales leadership ability, Andy is the right man at the right time to help CaseSight realize its aggressive growth goals in the competitive Midwest market.”

    “I am thrilled to join CaseSight,” says Mr. Fulham. “With a proven case presentation methodology, exceptional talent, and a record of driving favorable outcomes for high value litigants, CaseSight is poised to dominate the up-and-coming Chicago market.  I am looking forward to help push the CaseSight brand to the pinnacle of this growing segment.”

  • August 25, 2009

    CASESIGHT’S MIDWEST TEAM ADDS RYAN DODD AS PRESENTATION CONSULTANT

    Ryan Dodd has joined CaseSight, Inc., as Presentation Consultant.  With his extensive litigation and consulting experience, Mr. Dodd will help CaseSight’s Chicago Midwest team deliver expert, effective case presentations to its high value corporate clients.

    “Ryan’s expertise in case presentation strategy, his design skill, and his creativity—combined with his deep litigation knowledge – will give our Midwest clients an enormous advantage in delivering outcomes for their corporate clients,” says CaseSight CEO Joe Abely. “He is a natural to lead our delivery of integrated case presentation strategy, design, and assets, and to grow our Midwest practice.”

    Mr. Dodd brings to his new role 7 years experience in litigation graphic design and development, and 4 years experience as a presentation consultant with top consulting firms, serving some of the country’s leading litigation teams. He has created expert demonstratives for top trial teams for all phases of litigations and ADRs, helping to drive favorable outcomes in high stakes matters for AT&T, IBM, Barr Labs, Novartis, Lucent, Microsoft, and Bank of America. Mr. Dodd’s broad litigation experience ranges from securities, antitrust, patent infringement, trademark, and product liability cases to personal injury, medical malpractice, white collar crime, and pharmaceutical matters.  His design expertise features deep 3D animation, interactive multimedia, and web-based design knowledge.

    “CaseSight’s unique, unparalleled end-to-end methodology gives me the opportunity to bring all my skill and expertise to bear in designing case presentations that give litigators a tangible edge at trial, in hearings, or at settlement,” notes Mr. Dodd.  “CaseSight’s unmatched design, consulting, and trial site talent position the Company well for significant growth in the high value Midwest litigation consulting market.”

  • January 5, 2009

    KIM MEYER JOINS CASESIGHT, INC.  AS NEW DIRECTOR OF CONSULTING

    CaseSight, Inc. a leading national provider of case presentation strategy and design for complex and high stakes litigation, announced that Kim Meyer has joined the firm as Director of Consulting. In this role, Meyer will be responsible for leading CaseSight’s national Presentation Consulting Practice, facilitating the delivery of best in class presentation consulting strategy.

    Meyer has 20 years of experience in litigation consulting services, delivering strategic, operations and technology services to Fortune 500 legal departments and Am Law 100 law firms. She is a pioneer of trial consulting and has provided support for over 150 trials in federal and state courts nationwide. Her experience includes jury trials, bench trials, mediations, arbitrations, and pre-trial hearings. Meyer has served as lead consultant in numerous high profile cases that returned multi-million dollar settlements and verdicts for her clients.

    “Kim Meyer is an accomplished professional and we are excited to have her join our leadership team,” said CaseSight COO, Ken Dixon. “We are strategically positioned to feature the distinct value of case presentation and visualization expertise at any point in the case life-cycle. Kim will play a key role in leveraging our “best in class” design talent to drive favorable outcomes for our clients.”

    “I am delighted to join CaseSight,” says Meyer. “Our presentation consultants are on the forefront of design and visual communication strategies. Clients recognize that CaseSight presentation consultants are important advisors on the litigation team, quickly learning the complexities of any litigation matter and applying that knowledge in the effective and efficient preparation, analysis and presentation of any high stakes case.”

    Prior to joining CaseSight, Meyer played a key role in launching a Go To Market Litigation Services business unit for Xerox Global Services, the Multimedia Trial Technology Practice at TrialGraphix , managed the litigation support practice for 11 offices of Holland & Knight, held a Director position for FTI Consulting and more recently managed the practice support function for a major New York City law firm.

  • September 9, 2008

    CaseSight, Inc. Is Launched

    CaseSight Inc.—formerly known as Animation Technologies, Inc. (ATI) since 1998—today introduced its new name, brand, and business model with a clearer, sharper focus on more impactful case presentation consulting and design services for top-tier litigators of complex, high-stakes intellectual property, securities, liability, and complex commercial cases.

    Led by CEO Joseph Abely and co-founder, President, and chief Presentation Consultant Lawrence Collins, the new CaseSight brand refocuses ATI’s substantial litigation, case content and presentation design expertise and resources in a bid to lead the growing market for end-to-end case presentation services – particularly among attorneys of high-value intellectual property cases, where sophisticated visual presentation strategy and materials continue to drive favorable outcomes.

    “CaseSight has the talent, resources, and unique business model to gain leading market share in the dynamic litigation case presentation space,” said Abely.  “We’re well-positioned to transform the field and take advantage of demand for high-value case presentation consulting and design partnership services.”

    The new CaseSight website can be found at http://www.casesightinc.com. 

  • August 27, 2008

    CaseSight Wins New Business From Top DC Law Firm

    CaseSight recently supported Washington, DC, San Francisco, Palo Alto and Los Angeles, CA attorneys for a leading Washington, DC–based firm on a major International Trade Commission (ITC) matter involving Digital Television technologies dispute.  Presentation assets developed and designed by CaseSight’s Presentation Consultants and designers included case presentation strategy, demonstrative design, and trial site management.  The matter concluded August 22, 2008.

    As a result of CaseSight’s exceptional work on the matter, CaseSight was retained by the leading Washington, DC-based firm to provide case presentation consulting and design services for two additional ITC matters that will be heard later this year.  CaseSight will be supporting attorneys from Washington, DC and Northern Virginia in the matter.

  • August 26, 2008

    Recent Cases

    • August 26, 2008 | CaseSight was chosen by a Chicago-based international law firm to provide case presentation strategy and design services in a patent suit involving orthopedic devices.

    • August 7, 2008 | CaseSight was selected to provide case presentation consulting and design services for a leading Chicago-based law firm for a major trial in Fresno, CA.

    • August 1, 2008 | CaseSight was selected to provide end-to-end case presentation consulting and desig design services for a hearing in a patent suit heard in the “rocket docket” of the Western District of Wisconsin.

  • April 15, 2008

    Joe Abely Named CEO

    Joseph Abely has been named Chief Executive Officer of Animation Technologies, Inc.  Mr. Abely was formerly Chairman & CEO of LoJack Corporation.

    In his tenure as head of LoJack, Mr. Abely helped grow the organization from an entity with operations in one state, 30 employees, $1,000,000 in revenues, and significant operating losses, into a well capitalized NASDAQ:NMS-listed, growth-oriented company with over $200 million in revenues that today leads the global stolen vehicle recovery market.

    Mr. Abely began his career at Deloitte Haskins & Sells (now Deloitte & Touche), where he was a partner and served as the national director of the firm’s media practice. He received his BA from Boston College and an MBA from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.