Hearing Formats
CoPO Juries aren’t just for trials -- they can serve in all sorts of ways to meet the needs of the parties.
In assessing whether or how to litigate, no single question comes up more often than:
"What would a jury decide?"
So why not just ask a jury?
CoPO’s Jury Focus Groups allow parties to test their cases, or any aspect of it, in front of Jurors who live in the localities the parties specify.
Get a Juror’s perspective on damages, claims, defenses, evidence, attorneys, parties, witnesses...
Test different approaches, presentations and witness preparations...
Develop and refine trial skills...
The possibilities are only limited by your imagination.
Here is how it works:
- Step 1: Register as a Party with CoPO, or log-in if you have already registered.
Assumptions can have a tremendous impact on the success or failure of a mediation. Assumptions about how someone, or something, will ultimately be perceived by a jury. Assumptions about chances of success. Assumptions about value.
Imagine how much more effective a mediation might be if litigants were armed, not with assumptions, but instead with the knowledge of what a representative jury really thought about critical issues in their case.
Imagine no longer.
Through a Online Jury Mediation, one or more litigants can upload video and items of evidence for online viewing by a jury. Used before a mediation, or after an unsuccessful, initial mediation session, the juror feedback which participants receive can be invaluable in convincing your opponent, or possibly even people on your own side, that their assumptions may need to be adjusted.
Here is how it works:
1 ) If you have a Party Account, please Log-On to CoPO now or click here for Party Account Registration
Want a trial with high-low verdict parameters, or where the highest and lowest dollar figures voted for by your jurors are excluded from the final verdict tabulation? So stipulate.
Want a trial where the prevailing party is, or is not, entitled to costs of suit, expert fees and/or attorney’s fees? So stipulate.
Want a trial which results in a judgment which can be set aside by any side’s service of a request for trial de novo, or from which there are limited or no rights of appeal. So stipulate.
Stipulate to a Online Jury Arbitration.
A trial-arbitration hybrid, a Online Jury Arbitration is conducted just like a Online Jury Trial but -- like in the case of contractual arbitration -- requires a separate stipulation between the parties which controls any aspect of your trial, including the effect which the trial verdict will have.
Here is how it works:
1 ) Log-On to CoPO; You're Logged in.
Frequently, one or more "issues of fact" prevent a court from granting summary judgment as a matter of law.
When parties stipulate to participate in a Online Jury Summary Judgment, the litigants can save considerable time and money by limiting the scope of their trial to the distinct “issues of fact” separating them from a final judgment.
Here is how it works:
1) Litigants privately stipulate to all matters of import** including, but not limited to:
• Applicable rules of evidence and procedure, including any modifications thereto;
• Identity and role of your neutral;
• Preferred number and residency of live/remote jurors and alternates, and contingencies in event that preferences cannot be fully achieved;
• Manner of juror deliberations and verdict submissions, including:
1) Whether live jurors deliberate and render a verdict traditionally, or through electronic means, and/or;
2) For those jurors who deliberate and render a verdict through electronic means, how individual juror responses will be combined to result in a verdict (e.g. Party with burden of proof meets that burden if at least 75% (9 out of every 12) of the jurors answer affirmatively …; Responses to percentage or dollar figure verdict questions will be averaged to arrive at the final result...);
• Pre-Trial hearings/conferences, including regarding motions in limine, joint trial document disputes, and pre-trial, jury selection.
2 ) If you have a Party Account, please Log-On to CoPO now or click here for Party Account Registration
A Online Jury Trial is a “traditional” trial,
reinvented for the 21st century.
reinvented for the 21st century.
Through a Online Jury Trial:
• Litigants can choose a trial date to occur in weeks, not be assigned one more than a year away;
• Litigants can expand or contract the size of their jury, and decide whether they will present their case to a live jury, or to one viewing online, or to both;
• Litigants can streamline trial preparations through online tools designed to facilitate the preparation and presentation of jury instructions and verdicts;
• Litigants can use CoPO’s proprietary "Jury Selection App" to conduct some or all voir dire, and engage in jury selection, prior to and/or on the day of trial;
• Litigants can toss out foam boards and boxes of bulky binders in favor of evidence which can be presented to jurors electronically— just like jury instructions and verdict forms;
• Litigants can mitigate the effect of one or two strong personalities on the jury, and assure that each juror’s voice is actually heard, by allowing your jurors to deliberate through a dedicated, online chat board, and/or individually respond to verdict questions as part of a compiled final verdict;
• Litigants can stop chasing jurors down the hall and instead use optional Demographic Breakdowns, Post-Trial Questionnaires and Relevancy Meters to examine why the jurors may have responded the way they did.
Here is how it works:
Court of Public Opinion, LLC is not licensed to, nor does it provide, legal advice. Consultation with legal counsel is recommended.
1) Litigants privately stipulate to all matters of import** including, but not limited to:
• Applicable rules of evidence and procedure, including any modifications thereto;
• Identity and role of your neutral;
• Preferred number and residency of live/remote jurors and alternates, and contingencies in event that preferences cannot be fully achieved;
• Manner of juror deliberations and verdict submissions, including:
1) Whether live jurors deliberate and render a verdict traditionally, or through electronic means, and/or;
2) For those jurors who deliberate and render a verdict through electronic means, how individual juror responses will be combined to result in a verdict (e.g. Party with burden of proof meets that burden if at least 75% (9 out of every 12) of the jurors answer affirmatively …; Responses to percentage or dollar figure verdict questions will be averaged to arrive at the final result...);
• Pre-Trial hearings/conferences, including regarding motions in limine, joint trial document disputes, and pre-trial, jury selection.
2 ) If you have a Party Account, please Log-On to CoPO now or click here for Party Account Registration
Head-Off Potential Conflicts: Provide a "Statement of the Case” and a “Witness List” so prospective jurors can avoid obvious conflicts.
3 ) Provide a brief summary of what your case involves, or whatever issue(s) you want to address, in a "Statement of the Case";
Venue
4 ) CoPO will fill your Online Jury Pool with the Jurors who first respond to an e-vite sent to all registered jurors in the locale(s) you specify,
Jury Selection
5 ) Use responses to written voir dire questions and juror bio’s to whittle down your Jury Pool into a Jury Panel.
6 ) Upload your video and evidence;
7 ) [OPTIONAL] Select and personalize jury instructions specific to the issues you want the jury to examine;
8 ) Prepare or upload the "verdict" questions you would like the jurors to answer;
9 ) [OPTIONAL] Prepare or upload any questions you would like included in a Post-Verdict Questionnaire;
10 ) Your proceeding will be presented, online, to your jurors;
11 ) Monitor juror deliberations on an online Chat Board dedicated to your proceeding;
12 ) View Verdict Summary and individual juror responses; and
13 ) View online Demographic Verdict Breakdowns, juror responses to Post-Verdict Questionnaires, and Rate My Case tools, if separately purchased.
4 ) Provide a brief summary of what your case involves, or whatever issue(s) you want to address, in a "Statement of the Case";
5 ) CoPO will create an online, juror sign-up page for your proceeding, and will transmit announcement e-mails and text messages to all registered jurors who reside in the locale(s) you specify;
6 ) Upload your video and evidence;
7 ) [OPTIONAL] Select and personalize jury instructions specific to the issues you want the jury to examine;
8 ) Prepare or upload the “verdict" questions you would like the jurors to answer;
9 ) [OPTIONAL] Prepare or upload any questions you would like included in a Post-Verdict Questionnaire;
10) [OPTIONAL] Conduct pre-trial, electronic voir dire and jury selection;
11 ) Conduct/Record/Upload your trial;
12 ) Receive Online Jury Verdict (Verdict Summary and each juror's responses); and
13 ) View online Demographic Verdict Breakdowns, juror responses to Post-Trial Questionnaires, and Relevancy Meters, if separately purchased.