Over $500 million in verdicts and settlements. The only trial consultant in the country with a medical degree, running your mock jury and focus group research herself, from the first question to the verdict line.
Most Firms Rent You a Room and a Panel. Beverly Runs the Research Herself.
A mock jury is only as good as the person reading it. Many providers hand you a venue, a panel, and a stack of survey data. Beverly Splash Abbott runs the exercise herself, then stays with your trial team to turn what the jurors did into a sharper case.
Her team handles juror recruitment matched to your venue’s demographics, in person or remote, and brings everything the session needs. You watch real reactions in real time, not a report that lands a week later. Splash works with trial teams in 22 states.
Focus Group or Mock Trial? It Depends on Where Your Case Stands.
These are not the same tool, and using the wrong one wastes a case budget. A focus group is exploratory: you learn early, before strategy is locked, what themes land and where jurors get lost. A mock trial is confirmatory: closer to trial, with opening, closing, evidence, and deliberation, to test the case you have built.
Twenty-four years and 135 trials shape how Beverly reads a room. So does her medical background as a nurse, with an RN, MBA, and LNCC, the only trial consultant in the country with that training. She reads stress, hesitation, and credibility in jurors and witnesses the way a clinician reads a patient, and builds your strategy around what she sees.
Focus Group
Exploratory. Test themes, narratives, and juror reactions before your strategy is set. Best when the facts are known but the approach is still open.
Mock Trial
Confirmatory. A trial-like run with arguments, evidence, and live deliberation to pressure-test the case you have built and forecast how a jury may respond.
What You Walk Away With
Not a binder. A clearer case. Every engagement is built to change what you do next, in the courtroom or at the settlement table.
A Rebuilt Case Theme
The narrative that actually moved jurors, refined with you after the session, not emailed over later.
Real-Time Juror Reactions
What landed, what confused, and where the room turned, captured live as it happened.
Witness & Argument Feedback
How your witnesses and key arguments read to people who owe your case nothing.
Settlement Leverage
Mock results sharpen your negotiating posture, not just your trial plan.
Questions Attorneys Ask
If your strategy is still forming, a focus group earlier in the case tells you which themes work. If trial is approaching and the case is built, a mock trial pressure-tests it. The right choice depends on where your case stands, and we help you make it before any juror is recruited.
Beverly runs it. She is in the room for the exercise and stays with your trial team afterward to translate what the jurors did into strategy. Most consultants are gone once the panel is seated. That is when the real work starts.
Both. Sessions run in person or remotely, with jurors recruited to match your trial venue’s demographics. The team brings the equipment and handles logistics so the process is seamless for your team.
Yes. Based in Jacksonville and active in 22 states, The Trial Concierge runs mock juries and focus groups for high-value cases wherever they are tried.
The research is led by the only trial consultant in the country with an RN, MBA, and LNCC. That medical training reads stress, hesitation, and credibility in jurors and witnesses the way a clinician reads a patient, which shapes how reactions are interpreted and what gets changed before trial.
Test Your Case Before a Jury Ever Does
Splash has spent 24 years building a track record that speaks in courtrooms across 22 states, and she wins when you win. If your case warrants a consultant who runs the research herself and stays until the verdict is read, reach out here.