Wrightson, Johnson, Haddon & Williams for St. Mary's University School of Law

The St. Mary's University School of Law courtroom provides students with a real-world environment in which to practice their legal skills. While the 1966 facility in Texas was great in its day, it desperately needed a technology makeover. The school chose Mediasite to record mock trials and is expanding its use to include continuing legal education, a series of curriculum vignettes and a guide to each of the courtroom technologies. 

Students can include their technology experiences on their resumes and bring presentations samples to interviews. 

"This makes them more marketable to a law firm because they're able to tie in their experience in the courtroom. With Mediasite, they can actually show a law firm, 'This is what I'm capable of doing.' For smaller law firms, it is essential they know how to use the technology themselves," said Dave Schlueter, Hardy Professor of Law at St. Mary's. 

The school also partners with the State of Texas to webcast Supreme Court oral arguments and state judicial meetings. Mediasite allows St. Mary's School of Law to offer students a cutting-edge legal education and extend its reach outside classroom walls. 

"Mediasite is a very powerful platform," said Bill Kistler, design consultant for Wrightson, Johnson, Haddon & Williams, an audiovisual consulting firm based in Dallas, Texas, that worked on the courtroom transformation. "The data storage it can maintain is very advantageous. I see rich media more and more becoming an aspect of the applications we can bring to our clients, making it a part of the function of their space. The courtroom at St. Mary's School of Law is a magnificent space."