Atlanta Trial Lawyers Society, a group
of female civil plaintiff’s attorneys that
gathers monthly for lunch and to talk shop.
“We all knew each other by professional
reputation,” Jordan says of her partners,
“but the group allowed us to get to know
each other on a more personal level.
“It’s fun to work with women you
respect, who share your values. We all
want to work hard and do great work, but
we all have families and make them a
priority, too. This is the most fun I’ve ever
had practicing law.”
HER APP, JURYSTRIKE, CAME ABOUT
because Jordan wanted to automate the
pen-and-paper chart system she used
during voir dire to keep track of answers.
So she put together a concept and design
and brought it to a local app developer.
“They took my boards and concept and
wrote the code,” Jordan says. “We would
then go back and forth with the prototype.
I would run through a mock voir dire to
make sure the bugs were fixed and that it
did what I wanted it to do.”
The process took three months. She says
she never meant for it to be marketed to a
large-scale audience. “It was a tool that I
wanted to be able to use in my practice,”
she says. “It was worth developing the app
if I was the only person who ever used it.”
JuryStrike has currently sold hundreds
of copies.
“There are a lot of similar apps on the
market, and I own all of them, but hers
is far and away the best,” says Brody. “It
includes a seating chart and numbers each
seat, so you just tap the number on the
chart to correspond with your information.
It takes almost all of the legwork out of the
process. I used to make a big paper chart,
which would get messy. Now I use Jen’s
Jordan also volunteers time with her
alma mater. She just completed a term
as president of the University of Georgia’s
Law School Association Council. “She
oversaw a radical redesign of how that
body operates,” says Peter “Bo” Rutledge,
dean of the law school. “It’s more robust
and diverse.”
She’s also big on fundraising. “Because
[it’s] a public law school, all scholarship
money comes from private resources—
alumni or endowments,” she says. “It
means the difference of whether or not
some kid is able to go to law school or not.”
“He graduated in the top 10 percent
of his class but wasn’t getting the offers
that a student from Atlanta might get,”
Jordan says. “Where I’m from, you help
each other out.”
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