I have been predicting that predictive tools would gain an increasing presence in the practice of law. The press 
release from Thomson Reuters about Legislative Insights on Westlaw Edge carefully skirts the prediction issue by substituting the word “probabilities.” Thomson Reuters deep legislative coverage is about to be turbo charged with technology from Skopos Labs. Thomson Reuters was an early investor in Skopos through their venture capital arm Thomson Reuters Ventures.
Legislative Insight is driven by a proprietary machine learning and natural language processing methodology from
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Owen Byrd , the Chief Evangelist at Lex Machina is really excited about the latest module of legal analytics. Byrd provided me with a preview of the new commercial litigation product. While Byrd is proud of all of the Lex Machina modules, he sees the commercial product as providing lawyers with a truly unique set of insights . According to Byrd until today there was no easy way to isolate analytics for the most common types of commercial litigation cases:”breach of contract” and “business tort.” Sophisticated docket researchers have been frustrated by the gaps in the federal NOS codes which frustrate the tracking and analysis of many important types of litigation.
