France’s Judicial Analytics Ban Unlikely to Catch On in U.S.

A new French law designed to restrict use of legal and judicial analytics is unlikely to catch on in the U.S., legal tech experts say.

The law amends France’s judicial administration code to limit the ability of legal tech companies from identifying judges or magistrates in connection with analysis or predictions about how how they might proceed in the court.

The move could slow the drive for legal tech innovations in France, but is unlikely to have much of an impact in the U.S., said Nicolas Economou, chair of the law committees of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ ...