Data science and analytics, and its relatively small presence within the legal industry, is the business trend most commonly touted as evidence of the legal industry’s Luddite status within the modern economy. But with new investments in data analytics, legal industry operations may be seeing more data-driven work in the future.

Legal services and technology group Epiq has announced the formation of a data products group, a branch of the company’s innovation arm. The 30-person team will focus exclusively on potential applications of business analytics and data science in the legal industry, and will work with other innovation teams to weave data insight into its other products and services.