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Forecasting the Forecasters: Upcoming Trends in Judicial Analytics

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There was no effective way to perform practical legal research on state trial court records. The names of judges, attorneys and law firms are subject to change, a fact that makes it hard — if not impossible — to track legal entities across any given data set. We can quickly see, for example, that the Hon.

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Bruce’s Beach: A Case Study for Judicial Analytics Best Practices

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The legal heirs of Charles and Willa Bruce were all set to receive the deed to Bruce’s Beach. They can find it themselves through a targeted search, one that points directly to the paragraph — to the sentence— that addresses the pertinent legal threshold, the key factor(s) influencing a specific judge’s decision-making process.