From Defense Partner to Legal Influencer: Mastering Trial Prep with Monica Burkoth

So you're a new piece of cheese, right? You've started this product or this new trial lawyer system that you've developed over the years.

Walk us through that.

How's that helping the people that are using it?

So it's basically a universal prep system.

So if you're a civil attorney or a criminal attorney, you can use it.

Family attorneys have even used it.

And it's organized.

like my brain basically, but there's a tab.

So it's a PDF, it's an interactive PDF.

So it has, instead of flipping through the physical paper binder and trial, you could just like click the tab and it just like easier to navigate.

But in those tabs, there's a separate phase of trial, we'll call it.

So like there's the motions tab where like when you get pretrial rulings, You have whoever filed the motion, you know, the name of the motion.

And then there's a dropdown for granted, denied, granted in part.

Okay.

What are the limitations? You know, and you have the notes so that it's all in one place.

So that's one tab.

Then you have the exhibits tab where it's, as it's coming in, was it Is it pending? Like they did all the foundational steps, but they haven't actually offered it into evidence.

Okay, well, I'm going to mark pending.

And then at the end, my second chair is going to look and see, oh, shit, we haven't moved that in yet.

But number seven wasn't moved, you know, so we offered in at the, you know, before we rest our case.

So that's exhibits.

Then there's a separate section for jury selection, which forces attorneys to stop and actually think about what kind of juror they want.

Because a lot of us are just like going off of vibes and that's not good.

how you pick a jury.

So it like forces you to like think through the red flags, what you're looking for.