Voir Dire

We specialize in drafting thematically oriented voir dire questions to be used in combination with a written questionnaire or alone, if the court will not permit the use of a questionnaire. While the questions are always tailored to the specific issues in your case, we also draw upon our significant experience in the case area to include questions that we know are hot-button issues for jurors and are likely to identify strike candidates. We can also assist you in developing follow-up questions and provide more focused strategies for eliciting bias from plaintiff jurors and achieving successful cause challenges. Follow-up voir dire and lines of questioning can be drafted ahead of time or provided by a consultant to a questioning attorney in real-time during jury selection.

We routinely conduct voir dire workshops with groups of attorneys in order to teach effective questioning techniques, communication tactics, and strategies for eliciting bias. This can be done in connection with a specific case or as a generic exercise. Our clients find these workshops helpful both as educational tools for rising litigator and as refreshers for experienced trial attorneys.

Jury Selection

If you have a jury questionnaire, after the questionnaires are completed, we evaluate them, summarize them in a form easy for you to scan and review, and write voir dire questions for each prospective juror.

We accompany you to court for jury selection. If there are questionnaires, we make sure the appropriate questionnaires are handy as jurors are questioned. We take detailed notes on voir dire responses and ensure you have the jurors' own words to assist you in making cause challenges. Based on knowledge of juror attitudes and juror responses during voir dire, we make suggestions for peremptory and cause challenges. We also prepare and maintain seating charts to help keep track of jurors in the box.

After the jury is sworn, TBC summarizes the known information about individual jurors, describe the jury as a group, and make recommendations about case presentation in relation to what we have learned about the jurors.