Jury Management Software for Courts
Modern jury management software, built on more than 40 years of real-world court experience.
EmpanelJMS is a secure jury management platform for federal, state, county, and municipal courts, deployed in the cloud or on your own servers. It streamlines the entire juror lifecycle, from the master jury wheel and qualification through summons, reporting, panel management, and juror payment.
EmpanelJMS wasn’t created by developers trying to learn how courts work. It was built by professionals who have spent more than four decades designing, implementing, and supporting jury management systems in courts throughout the United States.
The Platform
Every step of the jury process, from master wheel to juror payment, in one secure platform.
EmpanelJMS replaces aging, disconnected tools with a single platform that court staff and jurors both find easy to use, reducing manual work while keeping the court in control of every decision.
Master Wheel & Selection
Load source lists, build and maintain the master wheel, and generate randomized, reproducible summons panels with full audit trails.
Summons & Questionnaires
Automate qualification questionnaires and summons, capture online juror responses, and reduce undeliverable mail and jury-day processing.
Juror Self-Service Portal
Give jurors 24/7 access to summons details, questionnaires, reporting instructions, deferrals, and excuse requests, on any device.
Multi-Channel Notifications
Reach jurors by email, text message, and interactive voice response, with reporting-instruction publishing and acknowledgment tracking.
Reporting & Analytics
Track summons yield, response rates, utilization, and attendance with reports that support informed, defensible court decisions.
Payment & Disbursement
Calculate juror pay and mileage by each jurisdiction's rules, manage attendance, and streamline accurate juror compensation.
What Sets Us Apart
EmpanelJMS doesn’t just manage your jury wheel. It continuously analyzes whether that wheel represents a fair cross-section of your community, using statistical methods grounded in decades of constitutional case law. Objective information for the court, not assumptions.
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Who We Serve
Specialized for courts of every size.
District and federal court jury operations
Statewide and trial-court implementations
County courts of common pleas and clerks
City and municipal court jury programs
Accessibility & Fair Representation
Built for every eligible juror.
A jury should reflect the community it serves. EmpanelJMS supports a multilingual, ADA-compliant juror experience and randomized, defensible selection, so participation is open to everyone eligible, and the process stands up to scrutiny.
Juror portal and communications in multiple languages
Juror tools built for assistive technology
Defensible selection with full audit trails
Options for jurors without a smartphone or internet
Legacy Systems vs. EmpanelJMS
What changes when you modernize.
Most courts do not go looking for new software. They reach a point where the old way costs too much staff time, or the risk of keeping it grows too large.
| Capability | Legacy system | EmpanelJMS |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud or on-premises, your choice | — | ✓ |
| Full juror lifecycle in one platform | partial | ✓ |
| Juror self-service portal (any device) | — | ✓ |
| Online questionnaires & summons response | — | ✓ |
| Multi-channel notifications (email, text, IVR) | — | ✓ |
| Reporting & analytics for defensible decisions | limited | ✓ |
| Juror payment by jurisdiction rules | manual | ✓ |
| MFA, encryption & modern access control | — | ✓ |
| Updates without downtime or a vendor visit | — | ✓ |
| Built specifically for jury operations | varies | ✓ |
“Legacy system” describes typical aging jury software nearing end of support. Specific capabilities of your current system may differ.
Deployment
Your court decides where the data lives, and how to buy it.
Most jury software is sold cloud-only. If your county’s IT policy, your state’s statute, or your own judgment says juror data stays on county hardware, that should not disqualify you from modern software. EmpanelJMS runs either way: hosted by us, or installed on servers your county owns and controls. Same platform, same features, same people answering the phone. It is also available as a subscription or a perpetual license, so the purchasing model fits the budget you actually have.
Implementation
Live in days, not months.
Most jury systems take months to stand up. Our team's four decades of court implementations mean we don’t. EmpanelJMS goes live in days, without cutting corners: every court is different, but the path is proven, we handle the heavy lifting, and we keep your staff involved at each step. No surprises. No guesswork. No disappearing after go-live.
Discovery
We learn your jury plan, statutes, local rules, and how your office actually works today.
Data Conversion
Your existing juror records, history, and source lists are migrated and validated against the new system.
Configuration
The platform is configured to your jury plan: panels, statuses, pay rates, notices, and workflows.
Training
Hands-on training for your staff on the day-to-day work, not just a slide deck and a manual.
Go Live
We're with you through the first summons cycle and the first jury day, when it matters most.
Ongoing Support
Continued support, updates, and configuration changes as your court's needs evolve.
More Than Four Decades of Experience
Experience that reduces the risk of change.
Courts adopting new technology worry about disruption. Our leadership has worked in government and jury-management technology since the 1980s: depth that shows up in realistic implementations, mature support, and fluency in government procurement.
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EmpanelJMS
A single platform covering the full juror lifecycle, hosted in the cloud or on-premises.
Support
A judge is waiting on a jury. You do not have time for a ticket.
That is the moment support is actually judged on. Not the response-time table in a contract. It is the morning a jury clerk needs an answer now, with a courtroom held up behind her.
When you call Integrated Jury Solutions, a person answers: someone who knows what a master wheel is, what a panel draw is, and what it means when a judge is waiting.
No ticket queue
No case number to reference, no automated menu, no promise of a callback within one business day. You describe the problem to someone who already understands it.
The people who built it
The person on the phone works on the software. A defect reported during a call reaches whoever can fix it, without being translated through three layers first.
Jury weeks are not normal weeks
We know when your term starts, when panels go out, and when a problem stops being an inconvenience and starts holding up a courtroom. Urgency is judged by what is happening in your court, not by a severity code.
Support is included with EmpanelJMS. It is not a tier, an upgrade, or a separate line item on a renewal.
Security & Compliance
Court and juror data, protected by design.
Jury records are sensitive. Security is designed into EmpanelJMS from the beginning, not added later. It is built with a layered security program appropriate to the courts we serve, and we describe it plainly, without claiming certifications we have not completed.
Multi-Factor Authentication
Enforced for administrative, privileged, and remote access, by text message or email.
Single Sign-On (OIDC)
Staff sign in with the credentials your court already issues, using OpenID Connect with Microsoft Entra ID.
Encryption at Rest & in Transit
Sensitive juror data is encrypted both in storage and across the network.
U.S.-Hosted or On-Premises
Hosted on reputable U.S.-based infrastructure, or on your county’s own servers.
Backups & Disaster Recovery
Regular backups with disaster-recovery and business-continuity procedures.
EmpanelJMS supports and records authorized jury-administration workflows. Legal, judicial, and qualification determinations remain with the court's authorized officials.
About the Company
A focused GovTech company serving the courts.
EmpanelJMS is designed by people who have spent more than four decades implementing jury systems in courts across the United States.
Integrated Jury Solutions, LLC is a Texas-based software company dedicated to jury management for the public sector. We deliver a specialized platform and hands-on implementation services — data conversion, configuration, training, and support — so courts can modernize with confidence.
We don’t build software for every government office. We build jury management software, and only jury management software. Our leadership has been building master jury wheels continuously for the federal courts since 1984, and that experience is built into how EmpanelJMS understands jury operations, court workflows, and the realities of government implementations.
Get in Touch
See how EmpanelJMS fits your court.
Request a demonstration or ask a question about implementation, data conversion, or security. We'll respond promptly.
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Phone(903) 294-5879 (JURY)
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HeadquartersTyler, Texas