Keep Judges and Lawyers Out of Legal Predictions, Tech CEO Says

Welcome back to the Big Law Business column, written by me, Roy Strom. Today, we talk with the CEO of a legal prediction software company about why he thinks judges and lawyers shouldn’t be evaluated in predictive modeling.

Not too long ago, I wrote about a tech start-up that says it knows the best real-life lawyer for appeals of U.S. patent infringement cases.

Sure, the tool itself, called Ex Parte, was interesting. Using technology to predict legal outcomes is a potential game-changer. But there was another story: Some of the lawyers the tool said were the best ...