About

Justin Weber

Case & Gavel is one person's practice. I've spent 20 years behind cameras, including years in deposition rooms and trial presentation.

My litigation work began at Esquire Deposition Services and Executive Video and Photographic Services, filming depositions, building trial presentations and editing settlement documentaries. Over the same 20 years, I made documentary and commercial films, including Made to Be Broken (Red Bull, 2016), which followed Karl Meltzer's Appalachian Trail speed record. That production work is the reason the visual evidence practice exists. A cinematographer's job is to control what a camera shows: what gets exposed, what falls into shadow, what the frame leaves out. Knowing how a camera is made to show something is how I recognize footage that doesn't show what a person standing there would have seen. Hundreds of depositions taught me how civil cases are built and tested from both sides of the table. I still produce settlement documentaries for plaintiff counsel and testimony contradiction videos for defense counsel, and I'm retained as an expert in civil matters. Case & Gavel is that work, run under one set of written rules.

Background

Expert work

Retained in civil matters involving a railroad crossing and hotel premises liability. Written opinions and deposition testimony.

Litigation support

Hundreds of depositions filmed. Trial presentation and settlement documentaries with Video Law Services, Esquire Deposition Services and Executive Video and Photographic Services.

Production

20 years of documentary, branding and commercial work. Made to Be Broken (Red Bull/Netflix, 2016).

Education

Bachelors in Communications & Photography, University of North Florida, 2003

How the firm works

Two practices, kept separate on every matter. Conflicts checked before every engagement. No fees tied to outcomes, no referral fees, and an early, honest read on the evidence.