Veteran Dallas trial attorney Brent Walker of Brent Walker Law spoke with The Texas Lawbook reporter Michelle Casady about how he has embraced the use of data analytics to accurately predict trial and jury outcomes, saving money, time, and effort in the process.
“As long as there have been trial lawyers there’s been the belief that the practice is an art, based on intuition, and must be informed by great experience and our solid-gold guts and instincts,” Walker said. “And what these researchers have been demonstrating over time … is that most questions in a case are empirical, having fixed and correct answers.”
You can read the full article here: Big Data, Big Impact: Texas Trial Lawyers Talk ‘JuryBall’.