This diagram helped the expert explain the deviation from accepted standards with regard to the slope of this pool wherein an infant lost footing and sank to the bottom resulting in severe brain damage.
	This diagram assisted the expert in explaining the production process involving the pumping of nitric acid and the flow meter that failed to shut off after a certain volume was reached. The building then went "BOOM!"

Try this exercise....ask a group of people to take a pencil and paper and draw something as you instruct them.  Start here, go there, connect this line to that line, etc.  You will find that you will probably be looking at 10 different interpretations of what you had in mind and put on YOUR paper!

The hip bone may be connected to the thigh bone, etc. but what do they look like? Illustrative exhibits will assure that the jury sees the facts and issues of your case in their proper perspective.  It is important to consider the trial as a scripted stage play, and to provide the right props and scenery for your players (witnesses) and for your own use during opening and closing.  Visual aids serve as "anchors" for the jury to remember what each witness was talking about as well as for creating focus for the message being transmitted. Assume ALL jurors are from Missouri...SHOW 'EM!