What tools will lawyers of the future use? Although it’s hard to say with specifics, it’s a safe bet that lawyers will do more number crunching. That’s the approach taken by Baltimore lawyer Byron Warnken, who created the Injury Lawyer Database by collecting and analyzing millions of judicial opinions from Maryland courts, then using that data to rank and score the effectiveness of the lawyer in the cases. Byron is an advocate for open law – which makes sense, because he’s using it to help consumers make more informed decisions about the lawyers they hire. As open law advocates often say: if you make the underlying data available, people will create all sorts of unexpected applications with it. Byron Warnken is living proof.
