Look Inside Your Opponent’s Brain – Lexis Launches Context Attorney Analytics

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Lexis is releasing a new Context product which they are referring to as Context Attorney Analytics. I would describe the product as attorney insights. Analytics are at work “under the hood,” but a lawyer will not see the trend lines and charts of a traditional analytics tool. When Daniel

Lewis and Nick Reed launched the Context predecessor Ravel law in 2012, it was the first legal product to use analytics and textual analysis to drive insights into judges thinking on specific issues. Ravel was bought by Lexis in 2017 and over the years the product has not only been integrated into Lexis but transformed by advances in machine learning. Context Attorney Insights like Ravel, offers a groundbreaking approach to using analytics and textual analysis to unearth insights into a specific lawyers history of addressing specific legal issues.

Context Attorney Analytics analyses the records of more than one million attorneys and connects their litigation documents such as motions, briefs and pleadings activity with actual written judicial opinions. Context Analytics helps attorneys to “build stronger arguments by anticipating and neutralizing opposing counsel’s arguments based on the legal language they’ve previously used in similar cases.” Context Attorney Analytics extracts and highlights the exact language an attorney has used in briefs, pleadings, motions and arguments in cases and connects those arguments to case outcomes.

Law firms will be able to leverage Context Analytics for lateral hiring and in-house counsel will be able to use it for evaluating outside counsel and hiring.

I met with Serena Wellens, Senior Director at LexisNexis who described the painstaking process LexisNexis undertook to understand how lawyers approach research on their adversaries. Wellens described the approach used by most lawyers as “shockingly time consuming.” Lawyers start with a general Google search and then proceed to sophisticated tools to locate, case law, briefs, dockets and news. Context Attorney Analytics is built on the assumption that lawyers want as much insight into the thinking of their opponents. How and why did they win a case? Lexis talked to hundreds of attorneys about how they try and get a competitive it vantage and they looked at workflow. Today Lexis is launching a tool to automate and streamline the process of adversarial competitive intelligence.

Lexis Context Attorney Analytics Search Page

Lexis search results provide an overview page with general factual information about each attorney such as, education, bar admissions, law firm affiliations, court appearances and litigation issues. The analytics overview includes document types, litigation events by issue type and court. You can filter by judge by court but the results are in arguments card. Loyal find extracts of arguments by topic and identify if it is from a complaint motion reply or order.

Lexis is leveraging the briefs submitted by specific attorneys and outlining the arguments they used on specific issues to identify the arguments a lawyer is likely to make on the same issues. Results can be filtered by area of law, court and topic. The search results in a chronological list of all the arguments a lawyer has made. Each result is presented on an “arguments card” which lists all the issues addressed across the top. A link to the original document is included.

The Lexis leveraged its repository of 35 million arguments included in briefs. A team of legal subject specialists and data scientists undertook an iterative process of developing training sets of documents, benchmarking the results and then fine tuning the results. Linguistic analysis technology looked at the text surrounding the citation and used the syntactic signals to classify the arguments using natural language processing and a special legal taxonomy.

The press release quotes Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO LexisNexis North America: “Knowing the language that opposing counsel has successfully used in similar court cases can give attorneys critical insights and a tremendous advantage when preparing for trial. No other analytics offering directly connects legal language argument activity and written judicial opinions for specific attorneys.”

Access Lexis Context Attorney Analytics can be purchased as an add-on to Lexis or Lexis+. Learn more about Context Attorney Analytics here.

Here is the full press release:

LexisNexis Expands Award-Winning Context Platform with

Context Attorney Analytics

Build stronger arguments, anticipate strategies and neutralize opposing counsel’s arguments
with legal language analytics that focus on attorney arguments linked to written judicial opinions

NEW YORK, March 1, 2021 – LexisNexis^® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of information and analytics, today announced the launch of Context Attorney Analytics, the fifth module of the award-winning Context platform.

As the legal industry’s first and only language analytics solution, Context Attorney Analytics tracks records of more than one million attorneys and connects their argument activity with actual written judicial opinions. This enables attorneys to build stronger arguments by anticipating and neutralizing opposing counsel’s arguments based on the legal language they’ve previously used in similar cases.

With a few keystrokes, Context Attorney Analytics extracts and highlights the exact language an attorney has used in briefs, pleadings, motions and arguments in cases that are similar to yours and shows how well they fared in court. In addition, its comprehensive search and robust filtering capabilities can deliver relevant attorney-related content, including new stories, jury verdicts and settlements, expert witness materials, and more, eliminating hours of research.

“Knowing the language that opposing counsel has successfully used in similar court cases can give attorneys critical insights and a tremendous advantage when preparing for trial,” said Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO, LexisNexis North America. “No other analytics offering directly connects legal language argument activity and written judicial opinions for specific attorneys.”

Context Attorney Analytics is also a great tool for helping law firms make lateral hiring decisions, or for legal departments in evaluating outside counsel. In addition to providing comprehensive biographical information and data on language preferences, Context Attorney Analytics provides insights into how and why an attorney’s arguments were won or lost, which cannot be gleaned from an attorney’s CV or law firm pitch deck.

Context is a key component of the comprehensive LexisNexis analytics solutions that provide lawyers with greater knowledge through data-driven insights. Data and analytics delivered by Context Attorney Analytics are a strong complement to leading Legal Analytics solutions, including Context, Lex Machina^®, Lexis+ Litigation Analytics and Lexis+ Brief Analysis.

Context Attorney Analytics is now available by subscription for users of Lexis® or Lexis+. For additional information about the Context platform and available modules, please visit www.lexisnexis.com/context.

About LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory and business information and analytics that help customers increase productivity, improve decision-making and outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis^® and Nexis^® services. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 10,600 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

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