More than 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are produced daily, yet the legal industry has traditionally been hesitant to incorporate much of that data into the practice of law. The complexities and the initial costs of working with data likely fuel many attorneys’ apprehensions about embedding data use into their practice. Fortunately for them, data experts do exist for the legal profession to lean on.
Some firms and legal departments have already seen the value of incorporating data experts into their everyday practice of law—even if their data staff only include a couple of experts—and we expect to see ...