Workflows / Research & Analysis / Legal analytics (judge, outcome, citation) / pp-0085 pp-0085 Litigation associate searches for case law supporting a specific legal argument but keyword search returns 500+ results, most irrelevant — the actual proposition ('courts have held that X constitutes Y under Z standard') is buried across dozens of cases that happen to contain the same terms but reach different conclusions 3 vendors roles affected 5 practice areas 2
Also reported as Paralegal researching a motion needs to compare how 20 different courts ruled on the same legal question — pulling each case individually, reading full opinions, and manually tracking which courts went which way is a 6-8 hour task that grid search and multi-case comparison tools could compress to 30 minutes Bankruptcy attorney handling a Chapter 11 reorganization needs to understand the current state of a disputed issue — say, whether a debtor can assume an executory contract after plan confirmation — but searching Westlaw returns 400+ cases across 50 jurisdictions with conflicting holdings, and the attorney has to spend 8 hours reading and synthesizing before they can advise the client on the likely outcome in their circuit Who feels this pain
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