Law Office Automation
Sep. 15, 2016
Lawyers raise doubts about Peter Thiel-funded Legalist's algorithmic risk assessment tool
Attorneys working with existing legal data products said the newcomer's pitch is more investor hype than litigation solution.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
It's either a dream or a nightmare: You feed the facts of a lawsuit into a computer and it spits out how long a case will take, how much it will cost, and how likely you are to prevail.
Legalist Inc., a startup that received a $100,000 grant from Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel to build just such a risk assessment tool for litigation finance, claims its algorithms deliver predictive...
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