On September 15th I presented the results of my “2022 Dewey B Strategic Start Stop Survey” at an HBR-sponsored LINKS program. I co-
presented the results with HBR Managing Director Kris Martin. The Dewey B Strategic “Start Stop Survey” was launched in 2013 but was suspended during the pandemic. The 2022 survey was intended
which you started or stopped since the start of the pandemic,(March 2020) through the present. 
available any time a lawyer was working – that is, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. 
legal tech continued their pursuit of innovation and market share. Most of us had a sense of whiplash and disbelief when the world came to a virtual halt in March 2020. Law librarians who had built digital libraries over the years offered their attorneys a fairly seamless transition to their work from home desktop. Within weeks most legal publishers had developed a special COVID offering. These ranged from free alerts, to primary sources and workflow toolkits. Despite all of these efforts law librarians and knowledge managers faced a gap in COVID coverage. Almost overnight a “gray literature” emerged which major legal publishers were not 
products. I have identified five trends, which I have divided into three categories: unforeseeable, continuing and surprising.State Litigation Analytics — California was ground zero for the development of federal and state analytics. Gavelytics and Judicata were two of the earliest startups to tackle the challenges of state litigation analytics. Lex Machina, the pioneer in federal litigation analytics, entered the state litigation analytics market with the February launch of California and Texas modules and launched New York Courts in the fall.
Westlaw and Bloomberg Law which previously launched state analytics continues to build out state analytics content. Starts-ups Trellis and Unicourt joined the state analytics party in 2020. Fastcase/DocketAlarm continued building out their state litigation analytics and late in the year announced the acquisition of Judicata.
