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AALL Litigation Analytics Super Session
July 14, 2019
If you are attending the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries starting Saturday in Washington, D.C., then consider attending Monday’s “super session” on the use of litigation analytics in federal and state courts. The 2.5 hour session will include three separate panels — one of which I will moderate — that will collectively take a deep dive into the current state and future course of litigation analytics. The panels are composed of a who’s who of people...
July 14, 2019
If you are attending the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries starting Saturday in Washington, D.C., then consider attending Monday’s “super session” on the use of litigation analytics in federal and state courts. The 2.5 hour session will include three separate panels — one of which I will moderate — that will collectively take a deep dive into the current state and future course of litigation analytics. The panels are composed of a who’s who of people...
Legal Analytics, Social Science, and Legal Fees: Reimagining “Legal Spend” Decisions in an Evolving Industry
July 12, 2019
To give you a feel for the power of legal analytics, imagine that you are the managing partner of a law firm. With a good...
July 12, 2019
To give you a feel for the power of legal analytics, imagine that you are the managing partner of a law firm. With a good...
Artificial Intelligence and Law: An Overview
July 8, 2019
Much has been written recently about artificial intelligence (AI) and law. But what is AI, and what is its relation to the practice and administration of law? This article addresses those questions by providing a high-level overview of AI and its use within law. The discussion aims to be nuanced but also understandable to those without a technical background. To that end, I first discuss AI generally. I then turn to AI and how it is being used by lawyers in the practice of law, people and companies...
July 8, 2019
Much has been written recently about artificial intelligence (AI) and law. But what is AI, and what is its relation to the practice and administration of law? This article addresses those questions by providing a high-level overview of AI and its use within law. The discussion aims to be nuanced but also understandable to those without a technical background. To that end, I first discuss AI generally. I then turn to AI and how it is being used by lawyers in the practice of law, people and companies...
DeepMind Can Now Beat Us at Multiplayer Games, Too
July 6, 2019
Chess and Go were child’s play. Now A.I. is winning at capture the flag. Will such skills translate to the real world? In a paper published on Thursday in Science (and previously available on the website arXiv before peer review), the researchers reported that they had designed automated “agents” that exhibited humanlike behavior when playing the capture the flag “game mode” inside Quake III. These agents were able to team up against human players or play alongside them,...
July 6, 2019
Chess and Go were child’s play. Now A.I. is winning at capture the flag. Will such skills translate to the real world? In a paper published on Thursday in Science (and previously available on the website arXiv before peer review), the researchers reported that they had designed automated “agents” that exhibited humanlike behavior when playing the capture the flag “game mode” inside Quake III. These agents were able to team up against human players or play alongside them,...
Huq on Machine Decision Making
July 5, 2019
Aziz Z. Huq (University of Chicago - Law School) has posted A Right to a Human Decision (Virginia Law Review, Vol. 105) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Recent advances in computational technologies have spurred anxiety about a shift of power from human to machine decision-makers. From prison sentences to loan approvals to college applications, corporate and state actors increasingly lean on machine learning tools (a subset of artificial intelligence) to allocate goods and to assign...
July 5, 2019
Aziz Z. Huq (University of Chicago - Law School) has posted A Right to a Human Decision (Virginia Law Review, Vol. 105) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Recent advances in computational technologies have spurred anxiety about a shift of power from human to machine decision-makers. From prison sentences to loan approvals to college applications, corporate and state actors increasingly lean on machine learning tools (a subset of artificial intelligence) to allocate goods and to assign...
Lex Machina Antitrust Litigation Report Shows Decline in New Case Filings and Strong Influence of Multidistrict Litigation
July 3, 2019
Cases against pharmaceutical and chemical companies dominated new case filings The federal government was the top plaintiff...
July 3, 2019
Cases against pharmaceutical and chemical companies dominated new case filings The federal government was the top plaintiff...
The Peculiar Blindness of Experts
July 2, 2019
The pattern is by now familiar. In the 30 years since Ehrlich sent Simon a check, the track record of expert forecasters—in science, in economics, in politics—is as dismal as ever. In business, esteemed (and lavishly compensated) forecasters routinely are wildly wrong in their predictions of everything from the next stock-market correction to the next housing boom. Reliable insight into the future is possible, however. It just requires a style of thinking that’s uncommon among experts who are certain...
July 2, 2019
The pattern is by now familiar. In the 30 years since Ehrlich sent Simon a check, the track record of expert forecasters—in science, in economics, in politics—is as dismal as ever. In business, esteemed (and lavishly compensated) forecasters routinely are wildly wrong in their predictions of everything from the next stock-market correction to the next housing boom. Reliable insight into the future is possible, however. It just requires a style of thinking that’s uncommon among experts who are certain...
Legal Data Analytics in Insurance Litigation
June 29, 2019
The rapidly growing area of legal data analytics provides insurers and their counsel with powerful technology to use when handling litigated claims. Legal data analytics provides unequaled insight into the behavior of courts, judges and counsel in litigated insurance cases. Analyzing data from actual cases allows insurers and their counsel improved understanding of how insurance cases are actually decided, how long cases last, and what litigation strategies have been successful. With...
June 29, 2019
The rapidly growing area of legal data analytics provides insurers and their counsel with powerful technology to use when handling litigated claims. Legal data analytics provides unequaled insight into the behavior of courts, judges and counsel in litigated insurance cases. Analyzing data from actual cases allows insurers and their counsel improved understanding of how insurance cases are actually decided, how long cases last, and what litigation strategies have been successful. With...
Legal Theory Lexicon: The Prisoners’ Dilemma
June 28, 2019
One of the most useful tools in analyzing legal rules and the policy problems to which they apply is game theory. The basic...
June 28, 2019
One of the most useful tools in analyzing legal rules and the policy problems to which they apply is game theory. The basic...
France’s Judicial Analytics Ban Unlikely to Catch On in U.S.
June 22, 2019
A new French law designed to restrict use of legal and judicial analytics is unlikely to catch on in the U.S., legal tech...
June 22, 2019
A new French law designed to restrict use of legal and judicial analytics is unlikely to catch on in the U.S., legal tech...
