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Thanks to Dan Jaffe of LawLytics for a fun conversation about legal technology, jury trials, the pain of paper-based jury selection and how an interest in government and politics led to a career in software development.
The video version of the talk is here.
Here is the lightly edited transcript (all errors are mine).
A Conversation with Dan Johnson, Co-Founder of JurorSearch
Dan Jaffe, Attorney: Dan is the co-founder of JurorSearch which is I think a really innovative piece of software that I would have liked to have had when I was a trial lawyer. I always found that the part of the trial that I thought was most pivotal but also was the hardest to track was jury selection, and Dan has created a solution that makes that a lot more systematic, a lot more transparent, and a lot easier.
Dan Johnson, CEO: Yeah, sure! So, thanks again for having me. This is fun. So, yeah, I got out of law school in 2000 and into politics, into government…
[Transcript continues with discussion of Dan Johnson’s path from politics to software development, the founding of JurorSearch, jury selection challenges, pandemic effects on jury trials, Salt Lake City municipal court project, and the target market for JurorSearch.]
Dan Johnson, CEO: Thank you. It’s Jurorsearch (J-U-R-O-R-S-E-A-R-C-H), and it’s jurorsearch.com.