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LANNY S.
ARONOFF, M.A., Applied Behavioral Science
President
Lanny S. Aronoff is an accomplished executive with over twenty-five years
of trial consulting, account servicing and creative problem solving experience.
His company, Legal Ease, is a full-service provider of trial graphics and demonstrative exhibits in all mediums. Legal Ease is capable of producing everything from basic trial graphic text
exhibits to complex flow charts with multiple cover cards; from a site diagram
to a model of a human organ; from computer designed technical illustrations
to computer animation and offers document imaging and presentation systems
as well for those matters requiring that technology.
Prior to the creation of his own
firm, Mr. Aronoff was Executive Vice President and a principal of The Acorn
Group in New York for 13 years. His responsibilities included supervision
of all case management, as well as consulting, designing and producing trial graphic exhibits for over 1,400 cases. He has worked in all media formats, including computer
generated art, exhibit boards, animation, videography and models.
Possessing a stong consulting background, Mr. Aronoff is uniquely qualified.
He holds a Masters in Applied
Behavioral Science enabling him to better analyze data from the jury's perspective
and to apply various strategies and design solutions to each case and incorporating this perspective into his trial graphics. His background is also
an asset when collaborating with other trial consultants.
Mr. Aronoff is a creative
and adept designer who can simplify complex material for presentation purposes in high impact trial graphic exhibits. His trial graphic exhibits have been used internationally
in Canada, England, Holland, France and Brussels. A variety of Mr. Aronoff's career achievements are listed below:
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Personally responsible for litigation matters worth in excess of $25
billion.
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Designed 80 trial graphics and produced 50 trial graphic exhibits in four days for the Andersen
Consulting v. Arthur Andersen arbitration, in which his client, Andersen
Consulting was awarded $14 billion.
Arbitration, January 1999
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Coordinated and designed all trial graphic material utilized in the U.S. Philips v.
Windemere anti-trust trial resulting in over a $100 million award to
the client.
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Designed and produced trial graphic exhibits utilized announcing the indictment of the
officers of Banco Nacionale di Lavaro in Atlanta (U.S. v. BNL-Atlanta).
The charts assisted Attorney General Thornberg and other agency heads
in learning about the complexities of the case prior to the press conference,
and subsequently utilized by A.G. Thornberg at the press conference.
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Responsible for the design of trial graphic exhibits which aided in the successful
prosecutions and convictions of Federal Judge Aguilar in San Francisco
and Federal Judge Claiborne in Las Vegas, for The Public Integrity Section
of The Department of Justice.
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Responsible for controlling and coordinating all trial graphic exhibit development
and production for both The Liggett Group and American Tobacco in their
three smoking-related/cancer litigations; Cipollone, Horton and Gunsalus.
These three cases involved seven different law firms and dozens of partners,
associates and paralegals.
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Created and supervised the design and production of all trial graphic visual material
for the Iran/Contra Hearings for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on
Secret Military Assistance to Iran and The Nicaraguan Opposition and
subsequently, for the prosecutions of Col. Oliver North and Admiral
John Poindexter.
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Conceived, developed and supervised the production of all trial graphic visual material
for the first private Superfund trial ever to go to judgment in Dedham
Water Co. v. Cumberland Farms. A defense verdict for his client was
achieved. Counsel in this trial was Christopher Davis of Goodwin, Proctor
& Hoar (Boston).
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In People v. Robert Chambers (The Jennifer Levin murder trial), Mr.
Aronoff was responsible for designing and supervising all key trial graphic visual
material utilized by the prosecution. He provided relevant and foundational
testimony under direct and cross-examination, thereby securing the admission
into evidence of the critical murder-site trial graphic exhibit.
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In charge of consulting, conceiving and supervising the production of trial
graphics for US v. Charles Atkins, the largest tax fraud and tax evasion
case ever tried. This case in particular involved taking highly complex,
esoteric financial transactions and translating them into simple, easily
understandable graphics.
• Other notable cases that have utilized Legal Ease's Trial Graphics and Litigation Exhibits include:
- RE: The Exxon-Valdez (Plaintiffs)
- Dow Corning v. Hartford
Accident & Indemnity Co., et al.
- Kearns v. Ford Motor Co.
- Cavagnuolo, et al. v. Rudin,
et al.
(Philadelphia movie life story rights)
- In Re: Andy Warhol Estate
- Tepperman v. MacAndrews
& Forbes (Ron Perelman)
- State of N.J. v. Robert
Brennan
- Burroughs Wellcome v.
Barr Laboratories (AZT Litigation)
- Enzo Biochem v. CalGene
- In Re: U.S.S.C. Patent
Litigation
- Oja v. Howmedica (Hip
Implant)
- Seabrook Prudence Hearings
(Nuclear Power)
- Pizza Connection Prosecution
(SDNY)
- Zimmer Nuclear Plant Summary
Jury Trial
- USFL v. NFL (Anti-trust)
- US v. Stanley Friedman
- US v. Biaggi et al (EDNY
& SDNY)
- US v. Gotti
- US v. Castellano
- S.E.C. v. Eddie Antar
et al. (Crazy Eddie Trustee)
- NY Urban League et al.
v. MTA et al. (1995 fare hike)
- Brokerage Concepts v.
U.S.Healthcare
- US v. Salerno
- US v. Jake Butcher
- US v. GAF & Sherwin
- Home Shopping Network
v. GTE (Anti-trust)
- Re: LILCO Nuclear Power
Plant Litigation
- US v. Michael Milken
- Central Park Jogger Trials
- Re: Amoco Cadiz Appeal
- US v. Princeton-Newport
- E.T.S.I. v. Burlington
Northern
- Polaroid v. Kodak
- GAF v. Kodak
- Genetech v. Invitron
- DuPont v. Phillips
- Proctor & Gamble v.
Kimberly-Clark
- American Cyanamid v. US
Surgical
- Gardner v. Ford Motor
Co.
- Exxon v. Lubrizol
- Litton v. Honeywell
- U.S. v. Fishbach &
Moore (Anti-trust)
- U.S. v. Rice Growers of
California (Anti-trust)
- U.S. v. Rosedin Electric
(Anti-trust)
In addition to the cases noted above, Mr. Aronoff’s extensive caseload over the last 25 years included an additional 4,000 cases.
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