Research

Dan Katz Lectures at Bucerius

Author: Robert SancrainteOn: Aug 06Categories: Analytics, Data, News, Research No Comments

LexPredict CSO Dan Katz recently returned from a week-long trip to Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany. The Legal Technology and Operations Summer School at Bucerius is a series of courses taught by Bucerius professors and visiting professors. Dan...

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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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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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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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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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Dan Katz Joins CLOC Panel Discussion on Contract Analytics

Author: Robert SancrainteOn: May 01Categories: ContraxSuite, News, Press, Research No Comments

Last week at the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) meeting in Las Vegas, our own Daniel Martin Katz spoke on a panel discussing the widening scope of AI, machine learning, and contract analytics in the law. Filling in last-minute for Google’s...

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Paper Published: Crowdsourcing the Supreme Court

Author: Robert SancrainteOn: Dec 12Categories: Data, FantasySCOTUS, News, Press, Research No Comments

Many of our regular blog readers also participate in FantasySCOTUS. It’s a fun challenge for our users, and it keeps many of them coming back year after year (the cash prizes help, too). FantasySCOTUS is more than just a game, though. It’s...

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New Research Published: The Growth of the U.S. Regulatory "Ecosystem"

Author: LexPredict, LLCOn: Aug 14Categories: Analytics, Data, News, Research

Recently, our co-founders Michael Bommarito and Daniel Martin Katz published their in-depth analysis of the “Regulatory Ecosystem”. In this paper, Bommarito and Katz argue for a new approach to studying market regulation. They describe the...

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The Ghost of Legal Future: Why You Need to Track Legal Reserves

Author: LexPredict, LLCOn: Jul 21Categories: Analytics, Business, Data, LexReserve, Research

“Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point, answer me one question. Are these the shadows of the things that will be, or are they shadows of things that may be only?” – “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens Most lawyers...

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Giving a DAM – Disclosing, Accruing, and Modifying Legal Reserves

Author: LexPredict, LLCOn: Jul 13Categories: Analytics, Business, Data, LexReserve, Research

If you’ve been at a registered company for at least three years, then the SEC has reviewed your disclosures during that time. While this might sound ominous, under Sarbanes-Oxley, the SEC is required to review all registered companies at least once...

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