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Research Metrics

We are serious about genuinely helping our clients, about adding real value to the claims process. And we will live or die not with our self-interested answers to these metric questions-but rather by the cost-effective judgments of the people paying the freight.

How It Works
The worksheet below lays out 21 objective metrics for fairly evaluating the real value of a jury research project. The responses to the right side of the table are how you might respond before and after a research session. We guarantee that you (or anyone you refer to First Court) will conclude that our RoundTables or Private Jury Trials will pay for itself.


Pre-Research Post-Research Helpful?

Preparation Metrics
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1. My Trial Team is Ready? YES NO YES
2. My Lawyer is Excellent? YES YES NO
3. My Team is on Same Evaluation Page? YES YES NO
4. What Additional Discovery Needed? Depo of economist Johnson on d... Causation Statement of neighbo... YES
5. Our Best Theme No Negligence. Our driver did... Exaggeration. They are exagge... YES
6. Their Best Theme Damages. Plaintiff sustained ... Acme should never have hired t... YES
7. Answers to Critical Issues Acme is not negligent, Acme di... Acme is negligent, Acme did ca... YES
8. Our Best Arguments Our driver was not speeding. O... Plaintiff had serious prior pr... YES
9. Opposing Best Arguments These are life shattering inju... Defendant driver is a loser wh... YES
10. Our Opening Our driver, while he may have ... We are a good corporate citize... YES
11. Visual Assets We Need None Animated medical records. Time... YES
12. Our Witness Prep & Salability Our driver is basically solid. Our driver stinks—wilts unde... YES
13. Weaknesses in Their Key Witnesses Treating doc was not aware of ... Treating doc was not aware of ... YES
14. Nightmare Juror Profile None — not ready Young, female social worker/te... YES
15. Ten Best VD questions None — not ready 1. Describe your experience ... YES
16. Confidence Level 8 6 NO


Evaluation Metrics
1. Likely Damages $400,000 $700,000 $300,000
2. Likely Allocation of Fault Df 50% Pl 50% Df 70% Pl 30% 20% diff
3. Likely Verdict Value $200,000 $490,000 $290,000
4. Settlement Value $175,000 $400,000 $225,000
5. Future Lit Costs $50,000 $50,0000 $0