Every year in Los Angles County, public and private employers perform an essential community service - they provide jurors for the Court’s jury system. The jury system cannot exist without that support.

Employer Information

One Trial The Courts The Telephone Center How Jurors Are Summoned The Numbers Employer Participation Is Vital To The Jury System

One Trial

All courts are now on the One-Trial term of service. Jurors summoned for jury service receive a combination summons/affidavit form. This form summons the juror to a specific court location for jury service. You must complete Section A, Steps 1, 2, and 3 and then call the 1-800-778-5879 (1-800-SRV-JURY) within five days of receipt to register and qualify for jury service.

You are then required to telephone the 1-800-778-5879 number during a five-day period, as instructed on the summons. If you are required to report and not selected on your first reporting day, your service will be completed. If you are assigned to a courtroom for participation in the jury selection process and jury selection is not completed by the end of your first day, you are required to return to complete this process. If you are selected to serve as a trial juror, the term of service will be the length of the trial.

Most jurors are sent to courtrooms for jury selection in panels of 30 or 35 depending on the length of trial. This helps ensure efficient courtroom use of each juror. Jurors may be sent to multiple courtrooms during the day.

The Courts

Los Angeles County has a unified court system. The system includes 12 Superior Court Districts. The Superior Court has jurisdiction over all infractions, misdemeanors, felonies and civil matters that occur within Los Angeles County. Los Angeles County courts average more than 6,000-7,000 jury trials a year.

The Telephone Center

The Juror Services automated telephone system 1-800-SRV-JURY (1-800-778-5879) allows your employees to postpone their service, speak to a telephone agent to request an excuse or transfer, or hear their on-call message at their instructed call-in times. The system is available between 6:00 a.m. to midnight. The TTY for the Hearing Impaired is (888) 354-0441.

How Jurors Are Summoned

The selection and management of jurors is governed by the California Code of Civil Procedure. By law, potential jurors for Los Angeles County courts are selected randomly from the voter list and the Department of Motor Vehicles' driver’s and identification card holder lists.

Depending on where the potential juror is called, potential jurors are selected from the juror master list to receive a combination affidavit/summons, called a one-step form. The form includes basic questions about a juror’s ability to read and understand English, United States citizenship, and Los Angeles County residency.

The Numbers

A Perspective:
Fiscal Year 2006-2007
There were 5,540 sworn jury trials held in Los Angeles County.

Summons/Affidavit

• 3,120,005 jurors were summoned for service. 1,526,926 jurors responded.
• Of those, 470,931 were not qualified to serve.
• Another 249,497 were not able to serve due to various hardships.
• 644,101 of those summoned actually served.
• Most jurors served an average of 1.25 days.

Employer Participation Is Vital To The Jury System

We wish to extend our deepest appreciation to public and private employers in Los Angeles County for supporting the jury system. We cannot overemphasize how crucial that support is. Without employer participation, jury trials would come to a standstill. As a consequence, private and corporate citizens would lose a fundamental principle on which we all depend - justice!