Lex Machina's Karl Harris on the Past, Present, and Future of Legal Analytics

Karl Harris, CEO of Lex Machina, took an interesting path to legal analytics. Initially working on sonar systems taking streams and signals and converting those into data, then on to mobile application analytics, then on to law school. Pulling these three skills together, the idea of legal analytics came together. With Lex Machina becoming the fourth pillar of the Lexis+ platform, along with legal research elements, practical guidance, and brief analysis. Harris walks through the progression of legal analytics over the past decade, and even projects some of the potential analytics has in the assistance of practicing law.

Information Inspirations

Bryan Parker and Jon Greenblatt have a wonderful interview with Locke Lord Partner and former ABA President Paulette Brown. Brown gives an honest view of her experiences as a black woman lawyer in a BigLaw firm, and the reality of how little has changed over the past twenty years.

Distributed law firms like FisherBroyles are approaching AmLaw200 status and might be the hot new structure for law firms to disrupt the BigLaw model. 

With the use of Zoom for trials, there are some logistical problems that not only make trials difficult, one situation in St. Joseph County Michigan shows that what (or who) you can't see on camera might create a dangerous situation. Luckily, Assistant Prosecutor Deborah Davis' skills to know when a witness was showing signs of distress when the defendant was just feet away when the witness was testifying. 

It turns out that teachers aren't the only professionals who have to buy supplies because the schools don't have the funds. Some Judges are having to pay for their own Zoom accounts in order to conduct online trials.

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