Entend for trial lawyers in Arizona
Read the panel. Deliver the case.
Arizona took peremptory strikes out of its state courts, so cause turns on what jurors say and how they act. Entend turns what you observe into a working read of how each juror takes in the case, keeps every observation in your words with your timestamp, and shows you how to deliver to the panel you are actually seated with. Captured one handed, in silence, offline.
Reads how the room communicates. Never a prediction of any verdict.
Without strikes, the record is the argument.
Every answer, every shift in attention, every question they ask back. With no peremptories to fall back on, a cause challenge rests on what you saw and heard, and details evaporate fast after the panel breaks. You cannot type paragraphs while a juror is answering. Your own trained eye can keep up.
How it works
Three steps, five minutes.
Capture in silence
Tap what you see, in pairs: leaning in or withdrawn, locked in or distracted, volunteering or unresponsive, collected or expansive. One hand, no looking down, no sound. It files under whatever question you are on. Works offline, so nothing depends on the courthouse.
Get the working read
Every juror gets a read built only from what you logged, and a line for how the read got here that cites the cues you saw. Open one and it tells you how to deliver to that person: where to stand, what to do with your hands, what pace to hold, the words to land on, and what shuts them down.
Read the room
One tap reads the whole seated panel: how this room takes in argument, how the conversation tends to run, what to avoid, and which seats carry the others. If more than one lawyer is speaking, who takes opening, key cross, damages and closing.
In the well
The moments this was built for.
Not a feature list. These are the places in a real voir dire where a working method and a clean record change what you can do.
You move to strike a juror for cause.
A cause challenge cannot be recorded without the observation behind it, in your words, with your timestamp. In Arizona the court weighs what a juror said and how they acted, and your record holds both, filed under the question that drew them out.
Half the panel raises a hand at once.
Switch to hand raises, tap the seats that went up, and log them against that question in one pass. Your eyes stay on the room instead of on a legal pad.
A juror changes when you name the defendant.
The seat flags the moment what you log moves that juror's read, and tells you which cues pushed it and which way. The flag clears itself when nothing new lands, so it only ever shows you live movement.
Strikes are off for your case.
Pick Arizona at setup and the preset says so plainly, with the order that eliminated them and the for-cause standard cited. The rail across the top counts cause challenges raised. In federal court, turn strike tracking on and the sheet tells you that you are overriding the state record for this case only.
The panel answered and one seat went quiet.
The app names the single juror you have observed least right now and opens their sheet. It is the seat you stopped looking at, which is usually the one you will wish you had watched.
You are second chair on damages.
Tell it more than one lawyer will speak and the panel read casts the trial: which moment each voice should take, and why this room hears it that way.
Hand raises
A steady thread through your questions while your attention stays on the panel.
The capture sheet
Rich notes from taps alone, without looking down or making a sound.
Everything in Pro
The full toolkit for high-stakes advocacy.
Strategize your approach
Build a plan for any conversation using your Given Circumstances, before you walk in.
Choreograph your delivery
Map your stance, gesture, and focus so your body supports your words instead of fighting them.
Capture and hold attention
Make the promise that earns attention, then keep renewing it so people stay with you.
Decode what is working
See the patterns in how you communicate, so you can name what to amplify and what to soften.
An engaged, captivating body
Turn nervous energy into presence: stance, gesture, and orientation that project confidence.
A read that learns you
Every conversation sharpens your living read, so the coaching fits you better each week.
The Method
Not "be confident." Something you can do.
The Entend Method is a real, physical language for holding a room: breath, stance, gesture, focus, and voice, built over 30 years of field work and taught in university courses. The coach speaks it fluently, and it coaches you in your situations, not from a script.
Plus: Discover
A growing library of bite-size video lessons.
A daily two-minute lesson, free, every day. One tool, one habit, yours. Pro unlocks the full course library and The Climb, the certificate path that proves the work.
FAQ
Your questions answered.
Arizona eliminated peremptory strikes. What does Entend do instead?
It runs in for-cause and adaptation mode. Strikes are off for the case, the order that eliminated them and the Rule 47(d)(3) for-cause standard are cited at setup, and the work shifts to two things: a clean record of what each juror said and did, and delivery shaped to the panel you are seated with.
I also try cases in federal court in Arizona.
Federal courts still allow peremptory strikes. Turn strike tracking on for that case and the full strike rails return: yours, theirs, cause and alternates, with a line across the pool. The strike version of this page shows how that works.
Is this ethical to use during jury selection?
Entend records your own courtroom observations of communication behavior. It does no juror research, touches no social media, and never contacts anyone. There is no scraping and no surveillance: just your eyes, your notes, and a 30-year method for reading how people take in information. For your firm's diligence file, read the full methodology and compliance page.
Does it score jurors by race, age, or background?
Never. Demographic and protected-trait scoring is exactly what Entend was built to replace. Reads are built only from observed communication behavior: focus, posture, pacing, word choice, the questions they ask back. Nothing else enters the read.
Does it predict verdicts?
No, and it never will. That is a design boundary, not a missing feature. Entend reads how the room communicates and shows you how to deliver to it. What the jury decides is theirs.
Does capture work offline in the courtroom?
Yes. Capture is built offline-first: every tap, note and challenge lands on the device and syncs when you are back online. Nothing about the courtroom moment depends on a connection.
I work with a jury consultant. Does this replace them?
For the case that carries a consultant, Entend makes their hours sharper: your captured observations are organized, time-stamped, and auditable. For every other case, it puts a working method in your pocket that used to be out of budget.
How much time does it take to learn?
The capture sheet is designed to disappear into your existing voir dire rhythm: taps you can make without looking. Most lawyers run their first real panel with it the week they install.
What am I actually tapping?
Opposed pairs, the way a trained observer would call them: leaning in or withdrawn, locked in or distracted, volunteering or unresponsive, collected gesture or expansive, measured or rushed. You tap the pole you saw. Each tap files under the question you are on, so the record reads back in the order the panel was asked.
What does it actually tell me to do with a juror?
Where to stand and how square to be, what to do with your hands, what pace to hold, how to open with that person, which words to land on, and what shuts them down. It is delivery guidance for you, not a judgment of them, and it updates as the read sharpens across the trial.
Does it track alternates and the foreperson?
Yes. Seats can be marked as alternates, and the foreperson carries a badge on the box. There is no fixed panel size: you set the rows and seats to match the room you are standing in, criminal or civil, jurors and alternates.
What happens to my record after the panel is seated?
It stays yours and it stays auditable. Every observation keeps your words and your timestamp, every cause challenge keeps the observation behind it, and the whole case exports as a plain record you can put in a file.
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