Editor’s note: As 2013 approaches, what better time to look back at the last year to see what topics and trends dominated legal technology, and predict what we will still be discussing next December. Retrospection helps analysis and planning, so for the last few days of the year, LTN will be reprising its top stories from 2012. In LTN‘s June issue, Tam Harbert reported in “Place Your Bets” how a trio of George Mason law students created a fantasy football-like site to predict High Court rulings that has now grown to more than 13,000 players.
“Wait, does Vegas take odds on U.S. Supreme Court decisions?” That was the question posed by George Mason University law student Josh Blackman as he kidded around with colleague Yaakov Roth, speculating on the outcome of the U.S. Supreme Court case, Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commission in 2009. They chatted about how cool it would be for law nerds to test their skill at predicting Supreme Court rulings like playing manager in a fantasy football league.
