1. There are a few tips one should remember when using PowerPoint in a courtroom. Many jurors will have some experience with PowerPoint; it will likely be a bad experience. PowerPoint is often misused by otherwise talented speakers. Your PowerPoint should (in essence) be an outline of your oral presentation. You should not have a slide for every point you want to make--just the most important. Please remember these tips when using PowerPoint in a courtroom setting.
2. K.I.S. (Keep it simple)
3. Watch the clutter. Too much info on one slide is distracting and hard for the jury to focus on your point. Use multiple slides to break up one complicated slide.
4. Can everybody see and hear? Sit in every jury chair and run your presentation. Make sure you can see and hear  all the text and audio in your slides. Use call outs to make smaller text items larger and easier to see. Also make sure your judge and all the parties can see the screen or your monitor. If they can’t, it could cause the  judge to not allow your use of the technology.
5. Colors and Backgrounds. Don’t use two primary colors in one slide. My personal preference is to use conservative dark blue or black backgrounds b/c some research indicates white backgrounds create a glare effect that annoys some jurors. Don’t use fancy fonts. There is plenty of research online about what fonts people like and don’t like. Adjust your colors for your room. Every room is going to be different and not every color font works in the same place. 
6. Don’t read from the computer or screen. Advocates spend years learning how to present an opening or closing without reading their notes verbatim. Don’t read from your PowerPoint slides. Slides should be used to enhance your point. It is not a teleprompter. 
7. Use the B button in PowerPoint.This may sound funny, but when you are in presentation mode in PowerPoint  you can use the B button on your keyboard to black out the screen (you can also use the W button to white out the screen)..
8. Don’t use PowerPoint sound noises.. Only use sounds from exhibits. PowerPoint sounds aren’t evidence.
9. Read the case law on lawyers using PowerPoint/visuals in court. Know what you can and can’t do.
10. Have a backup laptop and/ or document camera. It never hurts to have a backup especially if you are nervous about using PP in a trial for the first time. It is good to have a backup laptop. Also, many litigators have used document cameras. Print out all your slides (sans animation, but still with arrows, etc.) in color and have them available in case something goes wrong. You can attach a document camera to a monitor in seconds and simply run your presentation by placing the printed PP slides on the document camera. Some document cameras even work as a switch so you can set up a laptop and a document camera to the same monitor.