The litigation rollercoaster 3M faced in 2020, where the company went from a small series of litigation spikes to an all-out surge of over 227,000 cases in just one year, starkly illustrates why litigation analytics matter for catching spikes in real-time and the importance of having the data infrastructure and matter management tools needed to manage litigation at scale.

In the first article in our three part series, we took an in-depth look into the mountain of lawsuits 3M faced in 2020 to show how litigation analytics can take surprise out of the equation for legal departments. We saw how litigation analytics can act as a powerful diagnostic tool, but that analytics alone are not enough, and need to be paired with other legal tech solutions and strategic plans to move legal departments forward.