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Startup Uses "Moneyball" Stats To Handicap Judges, Lawyers.

by Joe Mobley
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If you're being sued for patent infringement before U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, there's something you ought to know...
The system, focusing for now on the litigation-intense world of patent law, has compiled an exhaustive database of patent cases going back to 2000 so companies and lawyers can determine how many times a patent has been the subject of litigation and how the lawsuits were resolved.

Lex Machina also handicaps law firms based on their win-loss records before specific judges with specific procedural maneuvers, so in-house attorneys can determine who to hire.
Using "Big Data" to handicap the legal system. I like it!

Stanford-Bred Startup Uses Moneyball Stats To Handicap Judges, Lawyers - Forbes

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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    I wonder how this will affect paralegals? Aid to help them get work done, or reduce the need for them? Paralegals get good money for that kind of research and it's always been tedious and piecemeal, with little centralization of data. I realize their intentions and present purposes are a tad off of the mainline research, but this sounds like something that is going to pull it all together at one point or another....

    And more on topic. It pisses me off to no end that this kind of BS goes on inside of our "legal" system.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Interesting idea for a startup. With everyone in Silicon Valley suing everyone else for patent infringement, it should be a big hit.
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  • Profile picture of the author TLTheLiberator
    In a society like this one and in hindsight, It was only a matter of time until someone would try something like this.
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