Advanced transforms a law firm boardroom into a legal collaboration space

The American law firm Sudduth & Associates has inaugurated its new headquarters in Lake Charles (Louisiana) with a multipurpose meeting room, where they can make presentations, collaborate and make sworn statements remotely.

The integration of this innovative law firm boardroom Sudduth & Associates corresponds to the specialist Advanced, who has designed a complete audiovisual system, composed of a video wall, a videoconferencing and control system.

“Sudduth & Associates contacted us with the goal of being a reference in the community and demonstrating how AV technology streamlines and improves the operations of law enforcement officials., police chiefs, judges, etc. -remember David Weatherhead, president of Advanced-. Despite logistical challenges, We exceed your expectations with an advanced system that can be used for many of your legal needs.”.

In this process, Advanced collaborated with local integrator Brewster Technologies to install a control system Crestron, to easily manage all audiovisual components. The whole system, including digital screens, video processors, microphones and cameras, have been integrated into the control platform so that the user experience is completely transparent.

So that the Sudduth legal team & Associates could make presentations, Advanced installed two large screens in a video wall configuration in the meeting room: one composed of 49” panels with ultra-narrow bezel and LED backlighting of LG (in configuration 2×4), and a 60” Aquos Board interactive touch system Sharp, with six points of contact.

Added to this is the installation of a videowall processor TVOne so room users can switch between single and multiple sources on the LG display, from the 15” Crestron touch panel. When making a presentation, the legal team can display everything from a spreadsheet to a video on screen, even a conference call on the same screen, with 4K resolution.

The room also has a conference system, with video and audio functions, composed of systems Clock Audio Microphones and cameras Lumens y Extron, Equipped with a high-brightness LED that indicates whether a microphone is free or not.

For the first time for Advanced, A specific area has also been created for a court recorder, Equipped with a 22” LG screen and a headset that transmits audio from microphone stations throughout the room. “The audio and video conferencing system is also configured to record content and audio transmissions and track statements, something very important for the legal team when preparing their cases”, explica Scott Wouters, Advanced Systems Integration Project Manager.

The video conferencing system also offers wireless connectivity so anyone who enters the boardroom with their own device can immediately connect to the meeting.. “It was of utmost importance to our client that collaboration was not only possible, but extremely easy - adds Wouters -. Anyone in the legal community can enter the boardroom, connect to the WiFi network and use the system to make a presentation”.

For your part, James E. Sudduth, by Sudduth & Associates, emphasizes that “the practice of law is constantly changing, however, The legal field has been one of the slowest to adopt technological advances. I am proud to say that this conference room, which we have nicknamed 'the Colosseum', It is a great step forward in the practice and evolution of law. The days of legal declarations are over, because our conference room contains the most advanced technology of its kind in the country and will change the way law is viewed and practiced in the Lake Charles area.”.