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Assisted Decision Making
    Big Data and the Law

       Josh Blackman
"The object of our study, then, is prediction,
the prediction of the incidence of the public force
    through the instrumentality of the courts."



              -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
               The Path of the Law (1897)
Law's Information Revolution
Disruptive Technologies
FantasySCOTUS.net
Crowdsourcing The
 Supreme Court
Predict How The Justices Will Vote
Over 13,000 Players
The Wisdom of the Crowds
What's next?
Assisted
Decision
 Making
How do we get there?
From Crowdsourcing to
   Super Crunching
Viewing The
Law As Data
Crunch
Data about:

•    Cases
•    Motions
•    Opinions
•    Dates
•    Judges
•    Firms
•    Lawyers
•    Parties
Introducing Harlan.co
   Big Data Meets Big Law
Court


People               Judge



          Case

Parties              Firm


          Attorney
Demo Time
bit.ly/HarlanBeta
Coming soon . . .
The Future:
Assisted Decision Making
Harlan
Intelligent Litigation Assistant
"I want to draft a contract
with . . . specifications."
I have a few follow-up
questions:

1. Where will the contract be
executed?
2. What are the possible remedies in
case of a breach of contract?
3. Do the parties have adequate
insurance?
      Shall I draft the contract?
Access to Justice
Assisted Decision Making for Non-Lawyers
"My landlord won't fix my
heat."

You have several options:


- Call Tenant's Rights Dept.
- Draft Demand Letter
- File Pro Se Suit in Court
- Contact Housing Lawyer
Select an option to learn
more.
Assisted Decision
    Making
 Big Data Meets Big Law
email: JBlackman@HarlanInstitute.org
         phone: 202-294-9003
        twitter: @JoshBTweets

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