Patent ID: 6607389
Filing Date: 2003-08-19
Classification: G06Q,G09B

Abstract:
A method of conducting a mock trial exercise in a lawsuit pending before a court at law, the method utilizing a first attorney for a first party in the lawsuit and a second attorney for a second, opposing party in the lawsuit, and comprising:assembling an initial pool of potential mock jurors; questioning members of the initial pool, in a manner that resembles as closely as possible a manner in which a venire will be questioned during the actual trial; striking members of the initial pool for cause, in a manner that resembles as closely as possible a manner in which members of the venire will be struck for cause during the actual trial; permitting the first attorney and the second attorney each to make a predetermined number of peremptory strikes of members of the initial pool, the number of peremptory strikes permitted to each attorney corresponding as closely as possible to the number of peremptory strikes that will be permitted at the actual trial; assembling a probable jury comprising members of the initial pool not struck for cause and not struck using a peremptory strike; assembling a stricken jury comprising members of the initial pool struck for cause or struck using a peremptory strike; presenting by the first attorney and the second attorney to both the probable jury and the stricken jury at least a summary of the case to be presented at trial.