Archives for 2018

The Wisdom of Crowdsourcing

Author: Robert SancrainteOn: Jul 09Categories: Data, FantasySCOTUS, LexAnalysis, Research No Comments

The big news lately is all about the impending retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. The past two weeks have seen a flurry of media activity as so-called “experts” prognosticate about who Trump will select as Kennedy’s...

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ContraxSuite 1.1.1 Release Update

Author: Robert SancrainteOn: Jul 05Categories: News No Comments

One year ago, we decided to open-source our ContraxSuite analytics platform. Over the past year, the legal tech landscape has continued to shift toward the approach we espouse here at LexPredict. In addition, the shift toward open source has only increased...

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SCOTUS News 2017 Finale! Abood, Abortion, and Proclamation Tension

Author: Robert SancrainteOn: Jun 29Categories: Data, FantasySCOTUS, News No Comments

The news of Justice Kennedy’s impending retirement has stolen some of the limelight from five heavy SCOTUS opinions out this week. The Supreme Court released opinions on credit card company policies, congressional districting, labor unions, abortion,...

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FantasyJustice Returns!

Author: Robert SancrainteOn: Jun 27Categories: Data, FantasySCOTUS, News, Research No Comments

With the news today of the imminent retirement of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, we have updated and re-activated FantasyJustice. Back in late 2016, FantasyJustice correctly predicted the nomination of Justice Neil Gorsuch. Will the Crowd catch lightning...

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SCOTUS News Special! Article III, and Cell-Site Records

Author: Robert SancrainteOn: Jun 27Categories: FantasySCOTUS, News No Comments

SCOTUS released opinions this past Friday in six more cases. Two of the cases, Cox v. US and Dalmazzi v. US, were dismissed as improvidently granted. That is because in Ortiz v. US, the Supreme Court affirms the lower court. The issues in all three cases...

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Dan Katz to Speak at FT/RSG Innovative Lawyers Summit

Author: Robert SancrainteOn: Jun 25Categories: Business, News, Press No Comments

LexPredict is proud to announce that our Chief Strategy Officer, Dan Katz, will be the lead speaker at a session of the FT/RSG Innovative Lawyers Summit in London on Tuesday, June 26th, 2018. The Innovative Lawyers Summit explores the growth of automation...

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SCOTUS News, June 22nd, 2018: Summer Vacation?

Author: Robert SancrainteOn: Jun 22Categories: FantasySCOTUS, News No Comments

SCOTUS continues its usual June pace, with nine cases decided this week. One, Benisek v. Lamone, is a per curiam decision. A group of Republicans in Maryland filed a motion for an injunction, claiming an unconstitutional gerrymandering in a Maryland congressional...

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OpenEDGAR: Open Source Software for the SEC EDGAR Database

Author: Robert SancrainteOn: Jun 20Categories: Data, News, Press, Research No Comments

LexPredict’s OpenEDGAR framework is officially live! Last week, Michael Bommarito, Dan Katz, and Eric Detterman published a new paper on the OpenEDGAR framework. “OpenEDGAR: Open Source Research Software for SEC EDGAR Data” is available...

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SCOTUS News, June 15th, 2018: Voter Beware

Author: Robert SancrainteOn: Jun 15Categories: FantasySCOTUS, News No Comments

The late-term drama officially began with last week’s flurry of opinions and dissents. That pace continues this week. The Supreme Court handed down opinions in five cases, with a sixth case set aside. Let’s begin with that sixth case. In a...

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LexNLP Paper Released: An NLP Toolkit for Legal

Author: Robert SancrainteOn: Jun 12Categories: Analytics, Data, News, Press, Research No Comments

Last week, we published a paper officially introducing LexNLP. “LexNLP: Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction for Legal and Regulatory Texts” is up on SSRN now. Natural Language Processing (NLP) in a Nutshell Researchers and...

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