The whole room, on one screen.
Jury selection still runs on paper charts and sticky notes. JuryBoard keeps the method and retires the paper: every answer, every impression, and every strike in one place that still makes sense at the end of the afternoon.
Free on iPad, Mac, Windows, and Chromebook. No credit card required. Pay when you are ready for your first trial.
There is nothing to learn. Give it ten minutes.
Download it and open the sample case. The panel is already waiting in the gallery, so there is nothing to type in before you start. Call jurors into the box, take notes in their own words, code impressions, spend a strike. The free version gives you a limited number of moves and no expiry date, which is enough to tell you whether this belongs on your counsel table.
Download it
iPad from the App Store. Mac, Windows, and Chromebook straight from the browser, with no install required.
Open the sample case
The panel is already waiting in the gallery and the box is already laid out. Your own courtroom is set the same way: twelve and a six-pack, eight and two alternates, whatever the judge runs.
Run a selection
Call jurors into the box, take notes in their own words, code impressions, and spend a strike. Everything the paid version does, up to the free limit.
Upgrade when it matters
The free version is an abridged test drive. When you have a real trial, unlock unlimited cases and run the selection end to end.
Voir dire runs on instinct because nothing else survives the afternoon. JuryBoard is built so something does.
You wrote down a conclusion, not a reason.
A note that says good juror or fine is a verdict you reached in seconds. Hours later, deciding whether to keep or strike, you cannot recall what the juror said or why you wrote it.
The jurors who matter most are the ones you cannot see.
Say eighteen in the box and thirty or forty more waiting in the gallery. The chart has boxes for the eighteen. So the jurors who will fill those chairs as they empty are the ones you know least about.
Deciding who stays is the job. Tracking the strikes is where it slips.
The count is written down. It is just not where the decision happens: a tally in the margin, or a second sheet beside the chart, updated by hand between challenges. Every turn asks you to read one page and decide on the other. Off by one, and you find out you are out at the moment you needed one.
Afterward there is nothing to review.
The verdict comes back and the chart is a photocopy of something illegible. Nobody on the trial team learns anything, so the next selection starts from the same place as the last one.
- Peremptory · Plaintiff
- 6 of 6
- Peremptory · Defense
- 5 of 6
- For cause
- 3
- Hardship
- 2
Eight videos. Four minutes. One panel, start to finish.
Recorded in the live app, not mocked up. From installing it on a Windows laptop to exporting the finished board as a PDF.
Use the device you already bring to trial.
iPad
The full app from the App Store. Handwriting with Apple Pencil converts to text as you go.
Mac
Runs in any modern browser. Install it from the browser for a desktop app experience.
Windows
Runs in any modern browser with a keyboard, or install it through Edge to get an app window and offline access.
Chromebook
Open it in Chrome. Nothing to install, nothing for IT to approve.
Handwriting with Apple Pencil is an iPad feature. Everything else the app does works the same way on every device.
Written and built by the same trial lawyer.
David Sugden is a trial lawyer. Licensed in California, Texas, and New York, he comes into high-stakes cases when they cannot settle. He wrote Picked to Win: A Smarter Way to Pick Your Next Jury, a 215-page method for voir dire, and built JuryBoard to run it.
Most of the book is about the part no software can do: what to ask, how to listen, what to write down, and how to decide when the clock is running. Read the first chapter and decide for yourself.
- Fellowship
- American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA)
- Recognition
- Top 50 Super Lawyers in Orange County
- Recognition
- California Trial Lawyer of the Year, The Trial Lawyers
- Teaching
- Founder, Evidence at Trial
32 pages, PDF, yours to forward to anyone.
Buy the book for $49 and your first month of JuryBoard is free.
Start free. Pay when you have a trial.
- Full courtroom configuration
- Juror notes and color coding
- Strike tracking
- Limited number of moves
- Sample case included
No credit card. No expiry. An abridged test drive, and enough to know if this is for you.
Download free- Everything in Free, unlimited
- Unlimited cases
- PDF export and offline use
- Cancel any time
For a lawyer with one trial on the calendar.
Start monthly- Everything in Monthly
- Save $189 against monthly billing
- Close to two months free
For a lawyer who tries several cases a year.
Go annualWe built this for our own trials, so we thought about this first.
What you write during voir dire is attorney work product. It contains impressions of real people, and it belongs to you and your client. Nobody should have to ask a vendor what happens to it.
Case files live on the device you create them on. The full policy is at juryboard.com/privacy.
- Case files are stored on your own device, not in the cloud
- At rest they are protected by your device passcode or biometric lock
- Nothing from a case is transmitted to JuryBoard, so there is nothing here for anyone to read
- Subscription information travels to Apple and RevenueCat over TLS, and nothing else does
- We do not sell your data, profile it, or share it with marketing companies
- You can request deletion at any time, and it is processed within thirty days
What trial lawyers ask before they download it.
What does the free version actually let me do?
Everything the paid version does, up to the free limit. Open the sample case, call jurors into the box, take notes, code impressions, and exercise a strike. It is not a timed trial, so you can leave it on your iPad until your next case.
Who can see my juror notes?
Your case files are stored on the device you create them on rather than in the cloud, protected by the same passcode or biometric lock as everything else on it. Nothing from a case is sent to JuryBoard, so there is nothing here for anyone to read. We do not sell your data, profile it, or share it with marketing companies. The full policy is at juryboard.com/privacy.
Does it work with no signal in the courthouse?
Yes. The iPad app always works offline, and the Mac and Windows versions do too once you install them from the browser. Running it in a plain Chrome tab is the one case that needs a connection. Courthouse coverage is not a dependency.
Can my trial team share a case?
Yes, though not as a shared live case. A second chair or paralegal can send you an observation, and you can drop it straight into that jurors note rather than retyping it.
Does it work for criminal as well as civil?
Yes. The format is the same either way. You set the box, the rows, the party names and the number of peremptories each side has, so a criminal panel is configured exactly the way a civil one is.
What happens to my cases if I cancel?
You keep everything through the end of the billing period you have already paid for. Export the report for any case you want to keep before that date, and the PDF is yours permanently.
Do I have to install anything?
Only if you want to. iPad users get the App Store app. On Mac, Windows, and Chromebook it runs in the browser, and you can install it from the browser for an app window and offline access.
Voir dire is too important to improvise.
Download it free and try it before your next trial, not during it.