The National Law Journal reported yesterday on SettlementAnalytics and their predictive algorithms. “The world’s first quantitative legal measurement to indicate the likelihood of a lawsuit proceeding all the way to trial and adjudication” according to the company.
I am profoundly skeptical.
But if it’s essentially an app that takes a few data points and predicts the likelihood of a case going all the way to trial (an eventuality that is not terribly common in any context, of course), I guess I am at least initially reminded of the “compatibility tests” seemingly found in approximately a million magazines every month: “Answer these ten questions about you and your boyfriend/girlfriend/pet/conditioner, and we’ll tell you if he/she/it is the one you will be with forever more…”
