Monday, May 13, 2024

May 14: Leveraging Data for Litigation Success

From dissecting trial verdicts to analyzing appellate decisions, data plays a pivotal role in contextualizing past events and aiding informed decision-making by litigators. Join our webinar to gain valuable insights into how data can be leveraged to shape trial and appellate litigation strategies, particularly when it comes to understanding potential outcomes in disputes. 
Our expert panel will explore the influence of emerging technologies like AI in collecting and interpreting legal data, paving the way for innovative approaches in advocacy. 
 Learning objectives include: 
  •  The utility of various types of data in litigation and why it has traditionally been underutilized by lawyers 
  • The types and sources of data that are available to litigators to aid in decision making 
  • Current applications and best practices for litigators, litigation funders, and insurers on the usage of legal data, including case strategy, when and where to file lawsuits, settlement, and assessments of trial and appellate outcomes 
  • Artificial intelligence and its potential future applications in the collection and analysis of empirical legal data.
Title:
Leveraging Data for Litigation Success
Webinar Date/Time:
May 14, 2024
1:00 PM EDT •12:00 PM CDT •11:00 AM MDT •10:00 AM PDT 
Register Now!
Credit:
Bloomberg Industry Group is an approved provider of CLE credits in all states. Individual programs are pre-approved in California, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas. All other requests for program approval are subject to state-specific approval. The approval process may take approximately four to six weeks in some states.
Speakers:
  • Dr. Adam Feldman is the creator and author of the Empirical SCOTUS blog, the principal at Optimized Legal Solutions Consulting, and was the previous statistics editor for SCOTUSBlog. He holds a law degree from U.C. Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law and practiced law as a trial lawyer for four years before starting a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Southern California where he was one of six university wide recipients of the Ph.D. Achievement Award. He subsequently completed a doctoral fellowship through Columbia Law School and is currently an adjunct professor teaching courses on law and political science. He has fifteen published or forthcoming articles in law and peer-reviewed journals and is currently developing an engine to predict legal outcomes based on trial and appeals oral arguments.
  • William C. Marra is a director at Certum Group, where he leads the company's litigation finance strategy. Will is also a lecturer in law at the University of Pennsylvania's Carey Law school, where he co-teaches a course on litigation finance. Prior to joining Certum, Will spent several years at another litigation funder, Validity Finance. Before that, Will practiced law at Cooper & Kirk PLLC in Washington, D.C., and clerked for Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and Harvard College.
  • Kirby Thomas West is an attorney at the Institute for Justice (“IJ”), where she is also the co-director of IJ’s National Initiative to End Forfeiture Abuse. Kirby litigates constitutional cases defending property rights, free speech, and educational choice.
  • Moderator: Robert Dillard is a legal analyst on the litigation team at Bloomberg Law. Prior to joining Bloomberg Law, Robert was a litigator and in-house counsel at both small firms and state government agencies. His practice focused on government contracts and employment law while representing clients before state, federal, and administrative courts. Robert earned his B.S. from Morehouse College and his J.D. from Georgetown University.

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