It’s a fancy name that means jury selection. Depending on which part of the country you’re in, lawyers pronounce it differently.

Vwa Deer
Vwa Dyre
Voi Deire

It doesn’t matter how it’s pronounced. The simple fact is that it means an opportunity for your lawyer to select a jury in your trial.

How a jury is selected, or better put, how a jury selects you, is a topic for another blog post.
Gerry practices law exclusively in the State of New York. Within New York he practices primarily in the following counties: New York, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island, Nassau and Suffolk. Technically, Brooklyn is known as "Kings County," and Manhattan and New York City are known as "New York County." Staten Island is known as "Richmond County." These counties make up the New York metropolitan area.