Judges and Judiciary
Jan. 12, 2018
Data analytics companies offer firms information on judges
Law firms and courts have mixed opinions of data analytics companies that tout its data on judges.
Rick Merrill, a former Greenberg Traurig LLP attorney, now runs Gavelytics, a computer program that is designed to give mathematical guidance to how judges in Los Angeles and Riverside counties might rule.
LOS ANGELES — Rick Merrill got frustrated that a billion-dollar operation like his law firm, Greenberg Traurig LLP, had no data-driven way to find information on judges.
“I can think of two trials we lost that we attributed in large part to the judge,” Merrill recalled recently. “If we had known at the beginning that the judge was bad, we could have 170.6’d him (removing the judge from the matter), or settled the case. We could have...
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