From case inception forward, Trial Exhibits will help you evaluate and assess your case. We employ experienced Trial Consultants and Jury Research Analysts to develop case specific themes, strategies and visual presentations designed to maximize the potential for a favorable outcome. With over 20 years experience in courtrooms across the United States, we hear everyday from real jurors what works and what doesn’t. 

Focus Groups, Mock Trials and Jury Analysis can be important tools to understand and leverage the key facts of your case. More importantly they can help you identify and address issues that may have not been considered. We all are guilty of getting "too close" to our cases from time to time, and Focus Groups or Mock Trials can be the perfect dose of honesty needed to get to the finish line. 

Our Trial and Jury Consultants employ years of experience to assist our clients, identify strategies, develop presentation and classify jurors. 

Focus Groups

Focus group studies have an important and specific role in finding relative answers for questions about juror perceptions of the issues, witnesses, visual aides and other aspect of the case. Clients often use focus groups early in the discovery precess to discover what native experiences, concerns, and idea jurors bring to the case and determine the level of juror education needed in the courtroom. 

Focus groups are helpful for identifying initial impressions, discovering useful metaphors and analogies and ascertaining reactions to defenses and bad facts. 

Mock Trials

Mock trials are structured, argumentative case presentations in which attorneys present both side of the case. They can be structured for either half day or full day depending on budget. Mock trials are designed both to assist the trial team and the client in developing creative and useful approaches to settling or trying the case. In the event that settlement talks are not successful, we make recommendations that are useful in developing an effective and persuasive case presentation at trial. 

Mock Trials are ideal for testing: 

•  Trial strategy, themes and arguments. 
•  Potential tactics, techniques, evidentiary strategies. 
•  Reactions of juror to expert and lay witnesses.
•  Comprehension of demonstrative evidence.
•  Reaction to attorney presentation and demeanor.

Jury Selection

The jury selection process is one of the most crucial aspect of your case. The consultant will assist with thematically oriented voir dire questions based on the specific issues in the case. The consultant in present during the voir dire process to observe and analyze the potential jurors bases on their responses and behaviors. If questionnaires have been allowed, they are evaluated and summarized. Detailed notes are taken on voir dire responses to ensure that the jurors own words are recorded to assist in cause challenges. The consultant will make suggestions for peremptor and cause challengers. After the jury is sworn the consultant will summarize the known information about individual jurors, descrive the jury as a group and make recommendations about case presentation based on what was learned.