I have made no secret of the fact that I consider litigation analytics to be one of the most important technologies to have gained traction in recent years. Writing about analytics a year ago on Above the Law, I titled the post, This Tech Can Turn the Tables in Litigation. In my year-end summary of the most important legal tech developments of 2018, my top item was “analytics become essential,” noting, “We could be nearing a point where it would be malpractice for a lawyer not to use analytics.”
While all of that still holds true, and while the technology has continued to evolve and the array of products to expand in the year since then, it is important for legal professionals to understand that litigation analytics is still a developing technology, and that there are weaknesses in both the technology and the data on which they rely.
