Tim Shults, a Chattanooga-based developer, released Lokewl, a website and smart phone app that shows where discounts are in the Chattanooga area, with the help of local event 48Hour Launch.Whenever Boyd Patterson, an assistant district attorney, finds a moment between prosecuting bad guys and wrangling juries, he buries himself in his new mobile startup, Litigator Technology.
The Hamilton County prosecutor who recently made headlines for his dogged pursuit of an allegedly negligent health care worker, found the traditional method of jury selection a bit clunky.
It starts with the laborious job of selecting a 12-man jury from hundreds of candidates. The paperwork-intensive process usually requires several packs of sticky notes, a handful of flimsy file folders and a lot of patience, he said.
So he created an app for that — JuryStar.
For $40, JuryStar for the Apple iPad replaces Patterson’s post-it notes with an intuitive interface that organizes jury selection questions, stores biographical information and even keeps track of who’s sitting where in the courtroom.