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Litigation

Aug. 2, 2011

Are you a successful attorney?

Using statistical tools to determine which lawyers are better than others. By Michael D'Andrea of Bremer Whyte Brown & O'Meara LLP


By Michael D'Andrea


In 1977, Bill James, a security guard employed at a pork and beans cannery, published an 80 page statistical tome called the "Baseball Abstract." The goal was simple: Develop statistical tools in order to identify which baseball players were successful at certain aspects of the game and which were not. The book was little noticed at first. However, since the publishing of the abstract, due to the perseverance of James and ...

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