The Dangers of Anecdotes - Transitioning to Data-Driven Decisions in Legal Practice

Lawyers are entrusted with some of the most difficult and consequential issues facing their clients. When clients have difficult decisions to make, they rely on their attorneys to understand what the likely outcomes are. In the business world, important decisions are now almost always made by analyzing data. Analytics are used for important decisions on everything from sales and marketing to supply chain management and HR. For the most part, though, lawyers still tend to advise their clients based not on data, but on their own anecdotal experience. With clients continuing to adapt to a data-driven world, do lawyers face a professional obligation to use data analytics to inform their legal advice?


This CLE is approved for credit through August 1, 2021.

CLE Credits:
1.0 Standard Credit approved | Event Code: 276705

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