Ask a lawyer to predict the outcome of an appeal, and they’re likely to give a response based on a mix of experience and gut instinct. Kirk Jenkins hopes he can be more exacting than that.
“We track virtually every variable you can think of,” said Jenkins, a partner at Sedgwick and chair of the firm’s appellate task force, in a podcast about how he uses legal data analytics. “Litigation is being quantified in recent years in ways that it never has before. And business clients understand that idea … It has come a little bit late to the legal profession, but there’s no holding it back now.”
