Every trial lawyer has done the mental math at some point: would a jury consultant have been worth it on that case? The answer usually depends on the number, and the number is surprisingly hard to find. Consultants quote by engagement. Software companies quote by seat. Research services quote by report. This guide puts the models side by side.
Figures below come from publicly available pricing pages, court-approved rate schedules and published industry surveys as of mid-2026. They change, so treat them as a map rather than a quote.
Jury consultants: the benchmark
A traditional jury consultant brings human expertise: community attitude surveys, mock juries, voir dire question design and, for the right budget, a consultant sitting at counsel table.
- Hourly rates: roughly $150 to $250 per hour. Federal court rate schedules for appointed-counsel cases sit in the $150 to $225 range.
- Typical engagement: $5,000 to $25,000 for a case with meaningful voir dire support.
- Full-service, high-stakes: $100,000 to $250,000 and above, including mock trials and focus groups.
- A half-day at counsel table: several thousand dollars, before preparation time.
Consultants are worth every dollar when the case can carry the cost. Most cases cannot, which is why the rest of this market exists.
Organizational software: the digital legal pad
The most established software products in jury selection are, at heart, better legal pads: digital notes per juror, seating charts, challenge counters and team sharing. They do not research jurors or score them.
- Annual per-seat licenses run about $399 per user per year at the leading product, with volume discounts and a public-sector discount.
- Monthly subscriptions at another established hub run about $249 per month for a solo user, or about $999 per month for a team of up to twenty.
- Pay-per-trial options, where offered, run roughly $899 to $1,250 per trial.
For a lawyer trying eight or more juries a year, a per-seat license is inexpensive. For a lawyer trying two, the per-trial math is less kind, and none of these tools does the research.
Juror research services: pay per report
Research services search public records and public social media and return a report per juror. Some add personality analytics.
- Base subscriptions start around $20 to $32 per month for access.
- Per-report fees are generally not published and are quoted on request.
- The hidden cost is arithmetic: a forty-person venire means forty reports, and the reports still have to be read, interpreted and carried into the courtroom by hand.
Jury simulation: pre-trial, enterprise-priced
Simulation platforms generate synthetic jury panels matched to a venue and test case themes against them before trial. They are used by large firms and insurers as a faster, cheaper alternative to live focus groups.
- Pricing is typically by contract. Comparable published services range from about $7,500 to $20,000 per case.
- Scope ends when the real panel walks in. These are strategy tools, not courtroom tools.
Per-trial, all-in: the newer model
The newest entrants price the way lawyers think: per case. StrikeList AI, for example, publishes a flat rate of $500 per trial, or $400 per trial in a ten-trial bundle, and includes public-records collection, criteria-based scoring, live in-trial guidance, challenge tracking with a Batson record, and a post-selection strategy memo.
Putting it together
| Approach | What you get | Typical cost per trial |
|---|---|---|
| Jury consultant | Human expertise, mock juries, counsel-table support | $5,000 to $250,000+ |
| Organizational software | Digital notes, seating chart, challenge tracking | $33 to $1,250 depending on volume and model |
| Research service | Per-juror public-records and social reports | Accumulates per juror; often several hundred dollars for a full venire |
| Simulation platform | Pre-trial theme testing with synthetic jurors | $7,500 to $20,000 |
| Per-trial AI platform | Research, scoring, live guidance, Batson record, memo | $400 to $500 |
How to decide
Three questions usually settle it:
- How many juries do you pick a year? Under about six, per-trial pricing beats per-seat licensing on cost alone. Over twelve, a license may win, if the tool does what you need.
- Do you need research, or just organization? If you are already doing juror research by hand, a tool that only holds notes leaves the hardest work with you.
- Can the case carry a consultant? If yes, hire one, and give them better information to work with. If no, the software options in this guide are where the value is.
Whatever you choose, the lawyer who walks into voir dire with organized information about every juror, and a consistent way to evaluate them, has an advantage over the one working from memory. The cost of that advantage has never been lower.
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