While moot courts are typically a fixture of the average law school education and are meant to simulate the proceedings of an appellate court, they are now finding their way into the legal technology industry. Last week, six teams of software engineers, data scientists and product managers from LexisNexis took part in the company’s moot court competition in North Carolina, where they took turns delivering arguments on a fictitious case steeped in Fourth Amendment issues.

The prize was bragging rights and insight into the way that lawyers think and work, which could potentially help alleviate a longstanding problem. Jeffrey Kelly, an associate with Shanahan Law Group who also served as one of the moot court competition’s judges, said that most of the products attorneys use are generally designed for general business.