The CBS drama “Bull” follows Jason Bull, a character modeled after TV personality Dr. Phil during his early career in jury consulting, as he conducts extensive “trial science” to help attorneys navigate the wild waters of voir dire. Bull, enabled by his trial science team, uses a hi-tech war room filled with enormous monitors crunching ambiguous data and doing real-time background checks and online research on potential jurors.
Real-world voir dire work isn’t quite as glamorous, and certainly not as tech-laden, but startups and technologists are slowly figuring out how they can infuse technology into the process. So far, however, nothing has wildly revolutionized the process.
