Research

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Predicting the next Supreme Court Justice (Round 2)

Author: LexPredict, LLCOn: May 31Categories: Data, FantasySCOTUS, Research

Soon after last November’s election, we launched FantasyJustice – a prediction tracker for President Trump’s first Supreme Court nomination. We borrowed from the same ideas – and the same crowd – as FantasySCOTUS, and asked...

LexPredict Co-Founders Spearhead Legal Complexity Research

Author: LexPredict, LLCOn: May 06Categories: Analytics, Business, Press, Research

Predictions are a very valuable tool for identifying opportunity and managing risk, which is why they’re used so often in nearly every human pursuit. A problem with this reliance on human or algorithmic predictions, especially in the volatile world...