Thank you for enrolling as a surrogate juror through SignUpDirect.com.

An email has been sent to you confirming your enrollment information. A national trial consulting research organization or law firm may soon be calling to request your participation in an upcoming study, mock trial, telephone survey or other research to resolve local disputes in your area.

Meanwhile, please be assured, none of your personal information will be shared with the public.

Because of the nature of this work, the selection of participants necessarily is random. Therefore, we cannot say for certain when or whether you will be

If you are asked to serve as a surrogate juror, you will earn $12 per hour for one day's work when randomly selected to participate. Act as an arbiter in complex criminal and / or civil case by listening to attorneys present their arguments.

Many trial consulting companies have been founded as jury research organizations dedicated to helping clients in litigation by applying social and behavioral science insights to case development. Over the years, however, we have discovered many cases fail to resolve before trial, as they often should because the parties hope for ultimate resolution in court before a jury of their peers.

If and when you are selected, your efforts will help parties in litigation understand how people will see their case, and give them the information needed to resolve the dispute.

Rather than risking everything on the ambiguities of the jury system, we also have found cases often can be settled by bringing the parties before simulated juries in mock trials so they can see how jurors may decide the issues.  In fact, using surrogate jurors as guides to case resolution provides insight as to how conflicts can be resolved without cluttering our courts with needless lawsuits. Increasingly, parties now put on their actual cases in a summary format before mock jurors and use the decisions of citizens in these private courts to frame the actual settlement of the case.  Even in criminal cases where the government and defendants have relied previously on plea bargaining and blind negotiations to effect a settlement, these sessions you will participate in providing insight as to how the public feels a matter should be resolvedī¤ both sides often see the results for the loser has nowhere to hide.

Your opinions participation are valuable because the law is based on the common sense of citizens acting as jurors.

To make this process work, the parties need jury-eligible citizens from particular venues, such as the community in which you live, to serve by listening to the case and deciding the issues much as you would do if called to actual jury service.  (These sessions usually last only eight to 10 hours on weekends or five to seven hours on weekdays.)  If selected, you will be paid between $100 and $150 per session immediately upon a verdict.

By enrolling here at Signupdirect.com, you become a candidate for participation in this process. We cannot guarantee you will be called, because the selection process is random, much the same as in actual jury selection. But we can guarantee that if called, you will hear real cases presented by the actual lawyers and your participation likely will lead to resolution of the case.  And you will be paid immediately.

Since you have successfully completed the application, you will be eligible for random selection for work on cases coming to trial soon in your area.

To ensure representative juries are created, you have provided the basic information required to ensure we build representative juries. For instance, the government requires all jurors must be U.S. citizens possessing a valid state driver's license and eligible to vote. But be assured, none of this information will be released to third parties for any purpose.

Thanks for your cooperation. We look forward to seeing you soon.