Gut instincts and hunches are getting a data infusion. Kelvin Tran is using data-driven intelligence to give attorneys and their clients competitive advantages in litigation: Litimetrics, a powerful provider of data on litigation behavior from courts in major jurisdictions. With machine learning and statistics, the Techstars startup is empowering attorneys to make better decisions based on real-time insights about durations, outcomes and behavioral patterns mined from millions of pages of court records. The company’s vision is that the humans involved in litigation (judges, attorneys, and their clients) have as much of an impact on the outcome of a proceeding as the factual scenario and legal principles do. With better data comes smarter decisions based on quantitative facts and fewer decisions based on anecdotal evidence or uneven experience.
