Module 7
Courts, judges, opponents and ethics: analysing people fairly, and reporting results to clients
The hardest questions that clients ask of litigation analytics are not about cases. They are about people. Which judge will we get? How does this opponent behave? Which of our panel firms wins more? These are natural questions and they are the most dangerous ones to answer from data. The samples are small, the confounders are many, the comparisons are unfair to the individuals concerned and in some countries the law now restricts them. A court is not a random number generator, but nor is a judge a fixed type whose decisions can be read off a table. This module covers the legitimate and the dubious uses of analytics about courts and people, the legal and ethical limits, the portfolio analytics that insurers and in-house teams do for their own books and the way to write and present an analytics report that tells the truth about its own limits. It closes the analytical part of the course; the capstone brings it together.
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