How Well Do You Know Your Judge or Opposing Counsel?
When it comes to litigation, attorneys who can successfully predict the actions of opposing counsel or the assigned judge have a distinct competitive advantage.
Knowing Opposing Counsel
Understanding opposing counsel’s prior behavior provides valuable insight into their experience, their use of authorities, their settlement history, and preferred styles of argument. It is highly likely that the attorney will continue these same behaviors in the future. Having this background information can help you develop your litigation strategy and begin to prepare for the most likely scenarios, greatly minimizing your chances of being surprised by opposing counsel’s actions and arguments.
Understanding Your Assigned Judge
Understanding the previous rulings of a judge, their approach and experience, and the authorities they tend to cite can positively influence your case strategy and litigation outcome. This information can help you identify the most successful and persuasive arguments that appeal to a judge and understand what types of arguments to avoid.
Obtaining This Information Through Litigation Analytics
Court records hold memoranda, briefs, and other filings with arguments submitted by an opposing counsel and court dockets contain the rationale for each of the judge’s decisions. But, the time and effort required to comb through these data records is highly prohibitive.
Now, thanks to artificial intelligence technologies this analysis can be done without hours of manual research and the results are presented in an organized and easy-to-digest manner. Litigation Analytics, fully integrated into Thomson Reuters Westlaw Edge, offers this valuable solution.
Westlaw Edge Litigation Analytics helps you identify:
- If a judge tends to rule pro plaintiff or pro defendant for certain types of cases and motions
- How different courts tend to rule on cases and major motion types for section of venue
- Time-to-rule information for various types of motions
- The factual scenarios and arguments that are favorable or unfavorable for a specific judge
- Opposing counsel’s experience with this type of matter and their typical motion practice
- And, much more…
“With Litigation Analytics, we can take advantage of quantitative data derived from precedent. Our clients are impressed with our ability to attain data on judges or opposing firms.”—Ryan Matthew Lawrence, Associate at Anthony Ostlund Baer and Louwagie
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