The Platform
Every step of jury management, in one platform.
From the master jury wheel to juror payment, EmpanelJMS covers the entire juror lifecycle: secure, available in the cloud or on-premises, and built specifically for courts.
Cloud or on-premises, your choice. If your county requires juror data to remain on hardware you own and control, EmpanelJMS installs inside your own network. Same platform, same features, same people answering the phone. See deployment options or read the questions courts ask most.
One jury administration system, every stage
EmpanelJMS replaces aging, disconnected tools with a single jury administration system covering every stage of jury service, from building the master wheel to paying jurors for their service. Court staff and jurors both work in a system designed for how courts actually operate.
Master Wheel & Selection
Load source lists, build and maintain the master jury wheel, and generate randomized, reproducible summons panels with full audit trails, the defensible foundation of a fair cross-section.
Summons & Questionnaires
Automate qualification questionnaires and summons, capture online juror responses, and cut undeliverable mail and jury-day processing. Templates adapt to each court's statutes and local rules.
Juror Self-Service Portal
Give jurors 24/7 access to summons details, questionnaires, reporting instructions, deferrals, and excuse requests, on any device, reducing calls to the clerk's office.
Juror Chat Assistant
Answer the questions jurors actually ask — parking, dress code, employer letters, whether to report — from each juror's live record, around the clock. During configurable office hours, jurors can ask to speak with your staff without losing the conversation.
Multi-Channel Notifications
Reach jurors by email, text message, and interactive voice response (IVR), with reporting-instruction publishing and acknowledgment tracking to reduce no-shows.
Questionnaire Intake & Scanning
Process returned paper questionnaires by scanning rather than keying. Barcodes route each form back to the right juror record automatically, extracted fields are mapped per jurisdiction, and the scanned image is retained as part of the record.
Check-In & Panel Management
Check jurors in by scanning the summons, track attendance across the term, assemble and assign panels for voir dire, and manage status changes — excusals, deferrals, and completions — as the term runs.
Reporting & Analytics
Track summons yield, response rates, utilization, and attendance with reports that support informed, defensible court decisions and satisfy oversight requirements.
Payment & Disbursement
Calculate juror pay and mileage by each jurisdiction's rules, manage attendance, and disburse compensation accurately, whether the court pays electronically or keeps the method it uses today.
Accessibility & Fair Representation
Built for every eligible juror.
A jury should reflect the community it serves. EmpanelJMS is designed so that participation is open to every eligible juror, and so the selection process stands up to scrutiny.
Multilingual juror experience
The juror portal, chat assistant, and automated voice line all operate in the languages the jurisdiction configures. A juror’s language preference is stored on their record and carries across every channel, so they are answered the same way whether they go online, call, or chat.
ADA-compliant juror tools
Juror-facing screens are built to accessibility standards, so jurors using screen readers, keyboard navigation, and other assistive technology can participate independently.
Randomized, defensible selection
Reproducible randomization with full audit trails supports a fair cross-section of the community and gives the court a clear record if selection is ever challenged.
Options for every juror
Online tools are the default, but jurors without a smartphone or reliable internet are not left behind; the system supports alternative paths so no eligible juror is excluded by technology.
Juror Payment
Pay jurors accurately, the way your court already does.
Compensation is calculated inside EmpanelJMS from recorded attendance, using each jurisdiction's own rules for per-diem and mileage. How the money reaches the juror is your court's decision.
Calculated once, in one place
Attendance, pay rate, mileage, and donations resolve in EmpanelJMS, with a reconciliation report tying every disbursement back to the attendance it came from.
Electronic disbursement
For courts that want to move away from paper, jurors get funds faster and staff stop preparing checks.
Or the method you use today
Courts that issue checks keep issuing checks. Electronic payment is available when you want it, not a condition of using EmpanelJMS.
Every payment path is calculated against the court's own rules and recorded for clean financial reporting and audit.
Constitutional Compliance Analytics
Prove your wheel is representative, with data.
Beyond day-to-day operations, EmpanelJMS continuously analyzes your source lists and master wheel against recognized statistical methods and established constitutional principles — fair cross-section, standard-deviation, and disparity analysis — providing objective information for court review.
Duren fair cross-section
Demographic representation measured against eligible-population estimates.
Castaneda deviation testing
Statistical-significance analysis of representation disparities.
See the platform in your court.
We’ll walk your team through EmpanelJMS with your jury plan and workflows in mind.
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