Book contents
- Legal Informatics
- Legal Informatics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Part I Introduction to Legal Informatics
- Part II Legal Informatics
- Part III Use Cases in Legal Informatics
- A. Contracts and Patents
- B. Litigation and E-discovery
- C. Legal Research, Government Data, and Access to Legal Information
- 3.8 Fastcase, and the Visual Understanding of Judicial Precedents
- 3.9 Mining Information from Statutory Texts in a Public Health Domain
- 3.10 Gov2Vec
- 3.11 Representation and Automation of Legal Information
- D. Dispute Resolution and Access to Justice
- Part IV Legal Informatics in the Industrial Context
3.8 - Fastcase, and the Visual Understanding of Judicial Precedents
from C. - Legal Research, Government Data, and Access to Legal Information
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2021
- Legal Informatics
- Legal Informatics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Part I Introduction to Legal Informatics
- Part II Legal Informatics
- Part III Use Cases in Legal Informatics
- A. Contracts and Patents
- B. Litigation and E-discovery
- C. Legal Research, Government Data, and Access to Legal Information
- 3.8 Fastcase, and the Visual Understanding of Judicial Precedents
- 3.9 Mining Information from Statutory Texts in a Public Health Domain
- 3.10 Gov2Vec
- 3.11 Representation and Automation of Legal Information
- D. Dispute Resolution and Access to Justice
- Part IV Legal Informatics in the Industrial Context
Summary
When arguing before a judicial body, lawyers must support their legal arguments by citing prior court decisions that adopted similar reasoning or reached a similar conclusion. Finding such prior decisions is often a tedious and time-consuming process that requires many hours of reading through judicial opinions to determine if they are actually relevant, and then drawing parallels to those few decisions that are most relevant. Many attorneys employ paralegals and junior associates to conduct legal research on a full-time basis, so any system that makes it quicker and easier for attorneys to locate relevant cases and statutes can save enormous amounts of time and money.
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- Legal Informatics , pp. 357 - 370Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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