Lawyers, especially litigators, like to say they never ask a question that they don’t already know the answer to. But there’s plenty of unknowns out there—especially when it comes to how a case might turn out or how much it will cost. Predictive judicial and law firm analytics take some of that guesswork out of the equation.

Predicting how a judge might rule on a certain motion in a certain type of case or forecasting how much time and resources a certain matter might take up based on similar matters in the past allows lawyers to make more informed decisions when it comes to pricing, budgeting and setting fees and brings a higher level of certainty to their practice.

Thanks to generative artificial intelligence, predictive analytics tools are easier to use and deploy, giving lawyers even more of an incentive to use them.

In this episode of the Legal Rebels Podcast Nicole Clark, founder and CEO of Trellis, a legal research and analytics platform, talks to the ABA Journal’s Victor Li. Clark talks about legal analytics and generative AI and how lawyers can utilize them to enhance the way that they practice law and run their firms.