Harvest Timekeeping: Litigation Consulting (Jury Consulting) Phases & Tasks

Litigation Consulting (Jury Consulting) Phases Offering Types

Offering Phase	Phase Initials	Engageable Phase	Notes
Jury Consulting Service	N/A	No	Use when don’t know the specific scope of work
Focus Group Phase	FG	Yes	Jury research without deliberations – presentations followed by a facilitated discussion to examine juror reactions to specific topics
Jury Selection Phase	JS	Yes	In court assistance selecting a jury as well as - voir dire strategy and development - development of juror questionnaires (SJQs) - juror questionnaire evaluation (grading) and annotation (coding) - post-trial juror interviews (PTIs)
JC Success Research Project Phase	SU	Yes	A type of research project. The first flat fee is a nonrefundable deposit covering all expenses and administrative fees. The success fee is an additional fee (like a contingency fee) where we get paid when the client gets a good result from trial.
Litigation Strategy Phase	LS	Yes	Any type of strategy work done by the Jury Consulting/Litigation Consulting team. It can include Mental Mining sessions, trial summits, theme development, or any other strategy work.
Mock Trial Phase	MT	Yes	Jury research – adversarial case presentations with witnesses and juror deliberations
Other Jury Consulting Phase	OJ	Yes	Early case assessment, Community Attitude Survey (CAS), in court monitoring, Shadow Jury
Social Search Phase	SS	Yes	Assistance with social media searches and background checks. Can be “On the Fly” or with names available prior to jury selection start.
Witness Prep Phase	WP	Yes	Evaluating and Preparing witnesses (fact and expert) for deposition, trial, or other testimony

Litigation Consulting (Jury Consulting) Tasks Code Descriptions

	GENERAL TASKS
Travel	Time spent traveling out of city limits for client, when billable work is not possible
Prep	Prep time for jury consulting time (research project planning & development, reviewing materials, meetings)
Report	Use when you are writing a report for a research project
JRC	Use for JRC specific tasks to prepare for a research project
JRC Onsite	Use for JRC specific tasks on-site for a research project
Onsite	Use for JC specific tasks on-site when work is happening for a research project or other Phases, as noted
JC Support	Use to track support work that is different than JRC work or another task code
	Research Project Only Tasks
Video	Time spent on video editing of recorded presentations for online research projects
Hourly (excl-FF)	Use for any work during a research project that should be excluded from the flat fee and billed hourly
AJR Recruiting	Use for time spent by Jury Recruiting Coordinators to supervise recruit
AV Onsite	Time spent onsite setting up, presenting, recording, and breaking down AV
AV Travel	Time spent traveling to/from research projects
JRC ADV Programming	DO NOT USE
	Litigation Strategy Only Tasks
Strategy Prep	Prep time for strategy sessions and wrap-up time (reviewing materials, creating content, writing memo)
Strategy Meet	Time spent meeting with clients in strategy/theme development/Mental Mining session
Strategy Travel	Time spent traveling out of city limits for strategy sessions with clients when billable work is not possible
	Jury Selection Only Tasks
Coding	Use when coding SJQ (Summary Jury Questionnaires) coding for jury selection
PTIs	Use for time spent on PTIs (Post-Trial Interviews)
	Social Search Only Tasks
Social	Use when performing social media searches
SS Summary Prep	Use when doing any type of administrative work for social searches