Data-Driven Law: Data Analytics and the New Legal Services

ISBN-13: 9781498766654 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 215 str.

Edward J. Walters

Opis

Data has reshaped industries around the world, from finance and medicine to sports. Law has trailed behind other industries, but is quickly following suit. For many years, law firms made important decisions – including very large decisions – based on limited experience (at best), or hunches (at worst). Data science is growing quickly in law firms, law schools, and corporate legal departments. Sophisticated clients not only prefer firms that use data analysis in their practice – they soon will demand it. In Data Analytics Applications in Law, leading practitioners examine the cutting edge of this trend, looking at new tools from our present, as well as the future of data analytics in law.

Spis treści

Introduction: Data Analytics for Law Firms: Using Data for Smarter Legal Services. Mining Legal Data: Collecting and Analyzing 21st Century Gold. Deconstructing Contracts: Analytics and Contract Standards. The Big Move Toward Big Data in Employment.Computational Law, Symbolic Discourse, and the AI Constitution. Quantifying Success: Using Data Science to Measure the Accuracy of Technology-Assisted Review in Electronic Discovery. Quantifying the Quality of Legal Services: Data Science Lessons. Uncovering Big Bias with Big Data: An Introduction to Linear Regression. 

O autorze

Ed Walters is an adjunct law professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches The Law of Robots, a class about the frontiers of law and technology. He also is the CEO and co-founder of Fastcase, an online legal research software company based in Washington, D.C. Before founding Fastcase, Ed worked at Covington & Burling in Washington D.C. and Brussels, where he advised clients such as Microsoft, Merck, SmithKline, the National Football League, and the National Hockey League. His practice focused on corporate advisory work for software companies and sports leagues, and intellectual property litigation. Ed worked in the White House from 1991-1993, first in the Office of Media Affairs and then in the Office of Presidential Speechwriting. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Legal Times. Ed graduated from Georgetown University, where he was Editor-in-Chief of The Hoya, and the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of The University of Chicago Law Review. He serves on the boards of Pro Bono Net, Public.Resource.org, Friends of Telecom Without Borders, and Salsa Labs.