Patent ID: 8515790

Claim:
A method enabling parties to litigation to select a jury from a plurality of candidates, the method comprising the steps of: providing a personal computer to each of the parties to litigation; posting an initial questionnaire on a website in communication with a computer server; pairing a respective email address with each respective party to litigation; providing the initial proposed questionnaire for each party to review by enabling each party to access and add questions to the questionnaire from the website to the personal computer of the respective parties to litigation; emailing a notice to each respective party, the notice informing that the initial proposed questionnaire is available for access from the website, for review and update; accessing the initial proposed questionnaire on the website from the personal computer of the respective parties to litigation; creating an updated questionnaire by the parties to litigation, the creating step including adding supplemental questions to the initial proposed questionnaire; entering, by at least one of the parties to litigation, an objection to the at least one additional question; transmiting the objection to the at least one additional question to a judge and to the other parties to litigation; transmiting a ruling on the objection, the ruling made by the judge, to the parties to litigation; presenting the updated questionnaire to each respective candidate; answering, by each respective candidate, each question of the updated questionnaire; converting, on the server, each respective reply by automatically transcribing each reply into a text-based tangible form; compiling respective replies to the updated questionnaires, and posting the respective replies on the website; assigning a gender-neutral indicator to the respective reply of each respective candidate; correlating each respective gender neutral indicator to the respective reply submitted by the respective candidate; editing, by a judge, the respective responses to delete indicators of at least one of gender, race, or religion, marital status, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, education level, or profession, thereby creating edited candidate replies; alerting the parties by email to perceive the respective edited candidate replies from the respective candidates; making the edited candidate replies available, on the website, to the parties to the litigation; selecting, through the website, from the plurality of candidates those jurors that at least one party desires to exclude from the jury; striking from the plurality of candidates those who were chosen during the selecting step to be excluded from the jury; empaneling each member of the jury; creating, by the server, a jury selection process transcript.