Harvest Timekeeping: Visual Advocacy (Trial Graphics) Phases & Tasks

Offering Phase	Phase Initials	Engageable Phase	Notes
Trial Graphics Service	N/A	No	Used when we don't know the specific scope of work
Animation Graphics Phase	AN	Yes	Graphics/demonstratives that are 3D modeling and animated demonstratives
Arb/Med Graphics Phase	AM	Yes	Graphics/demonstratives for Arbitration, Mediations, alternate dispute resolutions, settlement conferences
International Graphics Phase	IG	Yes	Graphics/demonstratives that will be taking place in a venue that is not in the US
Medical Illustrations Phase	MI	Yes	Graphics/demonstratives that are to be used as medical illustrations
Other Graphics Phase	OH	Yes	Graphics/demonstratives for legal matters that have not been filed in court yet. Includes litigation mediation, visual forensic investigations, pre-litigation consulting and client meetings. Graphics/demonstratives that do not fit into other categories, non-litigation graphics. Use for Chronos work so we can easily track time to budget.
Tutorial Graphics Phase	TU	Yes	Graphics/demonstratives for Tutorial
Trial Graphics Phase	TG	Yes	Graphics/demonstratives for a mock trial or other jury research hosted internally or externally, opening, closing, war room or on-site support, for hearings such as ITC, PTAB, Summary Judgment, §101 patent validity challenge, Markman, Claim Construction Hearing
Visual Strategy Phase	VS	Yes	Any type of strategy work done by the Trial Graphics/Visual Advocacy team. It can include Mental Mining sessions, trial summits, or any other strategy work.

Prep	All normal consulting & graphics time (meetings, reviewing case materials, sketching, creating graphics & PPTs). Prep for media tasks.
Animation	To be used by Graphic Designers specifically working on animation work 3D or Flash but not PPT
Audio	To be used when working with audio (i.e., doing voiceover for tutorial graphics)
Onsite	To be used when working in a war room or other client setting. Also, use this task code when doing billable work while traveling for that specific case. Please continue to use TG-Travel while traveling to/from the war room if you are not working, and TG-Prep if you are traveling or on-site but working on other cases.
Travel	Time spent traveling out of city limits for client when billable work is not possible
Video	Time spent on active video shoot (excludes setup and breakdown time), and for video editing of recorded presentations for online research projects
Render	To be used when rendering animation work
Presentation	Time spent doing trial presentation tasks in addition to graphics work
	Visual Strategy Only Tasks
Strategy Prep	Prep time for strategy sessions and wrap-up time (reviewing materials, creating content, writing memo)
Strategy Meet	Time spent meeting with clients in strategy/theme developing/Mental Mining session
Strategy Travel	Time spent traveling out of city limits for strategy sessions with clients when billable work is not possible