Building Your Law Firm With Big Data

A Miami-Dade case study on using hourly-updated litigation leads and 'Best Before' reports to win new client accounts.

Building Your Law Firm With Big Data

This 12-page report grounds its argument in a specific dataset: public civil case records from the Miami-Dade Courthouse in Florida's 11th Judicial Circuit, covering 2010 through October 2014, paired with billing data sourced from the American Bar Association. The analysis is credited to Premonition LLC.

Its core offering is a leads product built on what it calls the world's largest lawsuit database, refreshed hourly and filterable by high-value cases and high-net-worth defendants, intended to let a firm reach a prospective client with a targeted pitch before the defendant or their usual counsel is even aware of the suit. The report notes, as a caveat, that past performance is not a guarantee of future results and that no one can legally guarantee a litigation outcome.

It illustrates the approach with examples including a State Farm litigation analysis and "Best Before" reports built around specific courts and judges, showing how the underlying data has been used to support real account pitches.

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