Trial Partners Merges with DecisionQuest

The two firms are excited to combine forces to provide litigators and trial teams with more strategic, expert litigation consulting – from initial case evaluation to mock trials, legal graphics, jury selections, witness preparation, and trial technology support through post-trial surveys and analysis.

Trial Partners: Driven by Results

The President and Founder of Trial Partners, Inc., Dr. J. Lee Meihls, has over 40 years of experience in trial and jury consulting, including many headline cases. She has personally worked on over 2,500 cases and selected over 400 juries. Lee started working in trial consulting in 1981, including testifying as an expert in a federal conspiracy trial. She worked at a few of the well-known firms in the industry and then started her own firm, Trial Partners, in 2003.

Trial Partners is a nationally recognized and premier trial and jury consulting firm, which prides itself on having long-term relationships with clients by offering the highest quality services in a timely, cost-effective, and confidential manner. Overall, we have been directly involved in well over 5,500 civil and criminal cases and about 2,500 jury selections in 46 states around the country, plus the District of Columbia and Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

Trial Partners is recognized as a leading authority in jury psychology and legal strategy in all types of cases and jurisdictions, with a track record of good results. We have a first-rate reputation throughout the country because we listen to our clients, we think about their issues, and we act effectively to achieve their objectives.

We focus on complex matters involving major corporations in every industry, governmental entities, startups, and individuals. Our clients include many Fortune 100 companies, small mom-and-pop businesses, and prominent individuals.

Trial Partners will provide you with the talent, expertise, resources, and excellence you need.

Dr. Meihls played a critical role, including selecting the juries, in many high-profile criminal and civil trials, including People v. Michael Jackson (for the defense), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. John E. duPont (for the defense), People v. Harvey Weinstein (for the prosecution), Mattel v. MGA Entertainment, aka Barbie v. Bratz (for MGA), Brian Stow v. Dodgers, et al. (for the defense), to name a few.

Dr. Meihls played a critical role, including selecting the juries, in many high-profile criminal and civil trials, including People v. Michael Jackson (for the defense), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. John E. duPont (for the defense), People v. Harvey Weinstein (for the prosecution), Mattel v. MGA Entertainment, aka Barbie v. Bratz (for MGA), Brian Stow v. Dodgers, et al. (for the defense), to name a few.

Litigation Consulting

  • Case analysis
  • Theme development
  • Closing and opening arguments
  • Graphics consulting 
  • In-court trial monitoring
  • Post-trial interviews

Jury Selection

  • In-court jury selection
  • Juror questionnaires
  • Develop jury selection strategies and profiles (plaintiff & defense characteristics)
  • Voir dire questions
  • CLE programs

Research

  • Focus groups and mock trials
  • Change of venue surveys
  • Phone surveys
  • Damage & Witness studies
  • In-court trial monitoring
  • Mock arbitrations and bench trials
  • Private binding trials and non-binding summary trials
  • Shadow juries
  • Venue overviews and verdict searches

Communications Training

  • Attorney communications training
  • Witness preparation (fact and expert)
  • CLE programs

Anywhere and everywhere it matters...

Our national reputation has sent us to jurisdictions in all 50 states. We have also worked on international arbitrations in the United Kingdom, France, and The Hague. For over 40 years, we’ve helped law firms win jury trials in courts across the continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The white points on the map below represent some of the locations Trial Partners has been instrumental in providing jury selection, jury consultation, complex trial research, legal strategy, communications and other litigation services.

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5670 Wilshire Blvd Ste 850, Los Angeles, California, 90036

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