Boyd Trial Consulting Offers a Wide Variety of Services
to Make Your Case Better
From interactive focus groups to surveys to assistance with voir dire and trial coaching throughout the process, we assist you with working through the toughest and most complex parts of your case to make it simple, strong, and effective.
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Interactive Focus Groups
Each Interactive Focus Group package includes:
- Focus Group Planning Session with Jeff Boyd, the lawyers, and key team members to identify issues and goals for the interactive focus groups
- Work Session with Jeff Boyd, the lawyers, and key team members to discuss evidence, demonstrative exhibits, jury instructions, witness testimony, and themes to test with jurors, preparation of materials for presentation to focus group jurors
- Two four-hour interactive focus group sessions with different panels of jurors for each group
- A comprehensive report prepared after the focus groups containing demographic information, polling results, witness evaluations, and written feedback from the jurors, as well as an analysis identifying strengths and weaknesses, and specific recommendations based on focus group results
- A video recording of all focus group sessions
- Debriefing Session with Jeff Boyd, the lawyers, and key team members to discuss insights gained from focus groups and strategy for case preparation for trial.
Parties and witnesses may testify in person. Lawyers, key team members, and their clients may attend the entire focus group session.
Surveys
We tailor a survey to your case, your issues, your clients. Because we create custom surveys, we can tailor your survey to your case, allowing you to see what a group of jurors think about your case. We can administer surveys to the focus group jurors for your interactive focus groups and/or to a much larger sample of jury eligible individuals. The participants in our surveys will be from the venue where your case will be tried.
Our survey results include not only a list of the strategically phrased questions and answers, but also an analysis of what the survey results reveal, thus enabling you to make the most of what we’ve learned.
Trial Coaching
A series of work sessions with lawyers and their key team members to analyze strengths and weaknesses of the case, identify issues, look for solutions to problems, develop voir dire techniques, improve opening statement and closing argument, create more powerful demonstrative evidence, develop simple, memorable case themes, identify plain-language words and phrases that will resonate with jurors, and all other aspects of preparing a strong case for trial.
All great athletes have coaches, why not trial lawyers?
DEVELOPMENT OF DEMONSTRATIVE EXHIBITS
In depth analysis of case themes, elements, and evidence to create simple, yet powerful, demonstrative evidence that will enable the jury to understand your case.
ASSISTANCE WITH VOIR DIRE – IN ADVANCE OF TRIAL
Drafting themes and questions for voir dire in advance of trial, reviewing jury questionnaires, and analyzing/organizing questionnaire information if available prior to trial.
shadow juries
Facilitation and coordination of a “shadow” jury of individuals to observe the trial, debrief jurors at breaks and at the end of day, summarize and communicate findings to trial counsel.
MOCK TRIALS
Two four-hour sessions with different panels of jurors for each session to watch presentations made by lawyers, debriefing jurors to see which presentations, themes, witnesses, and demonstrative exhibits resonated with them, discovering areas of confusion, concern, and bias. Includes in person work session with lawyers prior to mock trial, as well as follow up after session to discuss results and solutions to problems.
We believe mock trials are most effective close to trial and as practice for voir dire.
WITNESS PREPARATION
Meeting with the witness, videotaping the witness, and practicing with the witness to empower them to give compelling evidence at deposition and trial.
Case and Theme development
Strategic in-depth analysis to identify and address the opposing party’s themes that can kill your case. Developing themes that juries will understand and that will win your case, discovering the plain language words and phrases that jurors use to discuss your case with each other.
SUPPLEMENTAL JURY QUESTIONNAIRES
Drafting additional questions to be submitted to the jury panel before voir dire, including meeting with lawyers, and analysis of jury issues.
ASSISTANCE WITH VOIR DIRE – AT TRIAL
In-person assistance at trial during actual voir dire, including helping the trial lawyer review jury questionnaires, analyzing and organizing the information in the questionnaires, observing voir dire, rating potential jurors, and identifying potential jurors who could be struck for cause.
POST VERDICT INTERVIEWS
Discussions with jurors after the verdict about their deliberations, verdict, and assessment of liability and damages to assist lawyers in understanding the jury’s decision.