 In addition, the summary jury trial is a mechanism for forcing parties to hear what an unbiased jury really thinks of their case.All too often, parties in litigation have occasional communications via attorneys, with little or no outside correction or feedback given on the course of their litigation.In the summary jury trial, either the verdict returned will be a "split the difference" type decision, in which the parties will have been given an outline of a settlement, or the verdict will cause one party to worry about its chances at trial.