#MLaaS, open source and the future of (legal) analytics
Machine Learning
as a Service (#MLaaS)
daniel martin katz
blog | ComputationalLegalStudies.com
corp | LexPredict.com
page | DanielMartinKatz.com
michael j bommarito
blog | ComputationalLegalStudies.com
corp | LexPredict.com
page | bommaritollc.com
edu | chicago kent college of law edu | university of michigan cscs
Today I would like to look
over the #LegalHorizon
We join our story
already in progress…
Part I< >
#DataScience
are already influencing
our lives in a variety of
meaningful ways
#BigData #Analytics
#A.I.
To date, the most
successful commercial
applications have massive
returns to scale and aim
for cross societal payoffs…
Medicine
Finance
Logistics
Agriculture
Transportation
Retail
Given large fixed costs
Given large fixed costs
infrastructure
+
human capital
(data scientists)
harder to successfully deploy
high quality enterprise
applications for relatively
narrow (sub)verticals
The Rise of #LegalAnalytics
Part II< >
Law is a relatively small vertical
and there is lots of diversity
among tasks lawyers undertake …
in addition
there is a
borderline
pathological
numerophobia
among lawyers
Together with the implicit
(explicit) challenge of
partnership as the dominant
form of the organization
within our sector
taken together this has
challenged the deployment 

of analytics in legal
Analytics /
Quant Legal Prediction
has come to law
Notwithstanding these head winds—
#LegalAnalytics
Quantitative Legal Prediction
#LegalAnalytics
Quantitative Legal Prediction
#LegalAnalytics
Quantitative Legal Prediction
#LegalAnalytics
Quantitative Legal Prediction
#LegalAnalytics
Quantitative Legal Prediction
#LegalAnalytics
Quantitative Legal Prediction
Some Commercial Applications
In a real sense, this represents
just a narrow set of products
#ContractAnalytics
Quantitative Legal Prediction
#JudicialAnalytics
Quantitative Legal Prediction
#PredictiveCoding #E-Discovery
Quantitative Legal Prediction
General Counsels as Legal
Procurement Specialists
TyMetrix/ELM -
Using $50 billion+ in Legal
Spend Data to Help GC’s
Look for Arbitrage
Opportunities, Value
Propositions in Hiring Law
Firms
#LegalSpendAnalytics
Quantitative Legal Prediction
#LegalAnalytics
Quantitative Legal Prediction
https://lexsemble.com/
#NegotiationAnalytics
Quantitative Legal Prediction
Lots of folks ask me what is
next in legal analytics …
A big part of the answer
comes from one of the most
dominant vectors in tech
both those in positions of
leadership and those in technical
positions need to take stock
#MLaaS and the
Enterprise Open
Source Movement
Part III< >
IBM WATSON
First major effort at #MLaaS
Machine Learning as a Service
IBM Watson is MLaaS and it
would have purported to be
among the biggest stories in
tech over the past few years
Turns out things would layout in
a slightly different fashion …
IBM Watson (per se)
IBM Watson (as early #MLaaS)
vs.
the democratization of
machine learning is underway
Emerging Business Model -
Machine Learning as a Service
#MLaaS
The
Cloud
Wars
Commercial Examples
Machine Learning as a Service
#MLaaS
Machine Learning as a Service
#MLaaS
Machine
Learning as
a Service
#MLaaS
Machine Learning as a Service
#MLaaS
But wait there is more …
Machine Learning as a Service
#MLaaS
Machine Learning as a Service
#MLaaS
Enterprise Open Source Movement
#OpenSource
+
Enterprise Open Source Movement
#OpenSource
https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/19/the-next-wave-in-software-is-open-adoption-software/
Part IV< >
The Last Mile
Problem and the
New Dimension of
Competition
historically one needed to
build the full stack (i.e end to
end) for an application
Standing on 

the Shoulders of Giants
The (Emerging) Last Mile Problem
in (Legal) Analytics
Off the
Shelf
#MLaaS, etc.
(perhaps with some
configuration
and/or
customization)
Unique Domain
Specific Offering
MLaas + Open Source
Decreases Cost of Production
Lowers the Cost of Protoyping
The New Ball Game
Workflow Across
the Machine
Learning Landscape
Piece together the
combinations of 

#MLaaS + open source
to build enterprise applications
which are unique combinations
drawn from across the
#MLaaS / open source spectrum
Three Implications for
#LegalAnalytics
#LegalTech
#LegalAI
Part V< >
Implication #1< >
every organization in law
needs a data strategy
Capture, Clean, Regularize Data
to support a range of tasks
Deploy Data for Specific
Enterprise Applications
Develop a
data roadmap
Implication #2< >
every organization in law
needs a relevant human captial
#LegalAnalytics
Opening the Human
Capital Bottleneck
Probably going to
need homegrow
your own talent
http://www.quantitativemethodsclass.com/Professor Daniel Martin Katz
Intro Class
http://www.legalanalyticscourse.com/Professor Daniel Martin Katz
Professor Michael J. Bommarito II Advanced Class
Implication #3< >
First Wave vs.
Second Wave
Legal Tech
Second Movers can
catch up faster …
Second Movers
need less capital …
Second Movers
who start now
will have lower
fixed costs …
probably will not
need to go for a
series z round of
funding
In Conclusion< >
Our Prediction
on the #LegalHorizon
Our Prediction
More Legal Tech
More Legal Analytics
Leveraging (in part) …
#MLaaS
Machine Learning as a Service
Daniel Martin Katz
@ computational
computationallegalstudies.com
lexpredict.com
danielmartinkatz.com
illinois tech - chicago kent college of law@
Michael J. Bommarito II
@ mjbommar
computationallegalstudies.com
lexpredict.com
bommaritollc.com
university of michigan center for the study of complex systems@

Machine Learning as a Service: #MLaaS, Open Source and the Future of (Legal) Analytics - By Daniel Martin Katz + Michael J. Bommarito II