Within the past few years alone, data analytics capabilities for law has exploded—and so has the software offerings providing those analytics. So how does a law firm or academic law library decide between platforms?

A group of law librarians at the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) ventured to find out with a study of their own. At the Monday “The Federal and State Court Analytics Market—Should the Buyer Beware? What’s on the Horizon?” session, a group of four law firm library directors walked a packed room through the results of the study—one that found no winner, but a number of issues and potential improvements for current analytics platforms.