By James Michael Boyer and Daniel Pope, Ballard Spahr, LLP

James Michael Boyer and Daniel Pope will present “Emergence of the Citizen Data Scientist” at P3® – The Virtual Experience on Wednesday, June 10, 2020. With the release of user-friendly and intuitive business intelligence tools, the role of data scientist is no longer limited to the IT department, giving marketing, pricing and project management professionals greater capability to control their data. We caught up with James and Daniel to preview their session and better understand the role of a citizen data scientist.

By Brad Blickstein, principal of the Blickstein Group and partner and co-head of NewLaw at Baretz+Brunelle

Back in June 2019, I presented “The Annual Law Department Operations Survey: Decoding a Decade of Data to Map the LDO Journey” at LMA P3 – The Practice Innovation Conference. During that session, I outlined how the law department operations role has changed since the 2008 launch of the survey, which asks in-house legal operations professionals to provide insight into many critical success factors for effectively managed corporate law departments.

By Josh Blandi, CEO and Co-Founder of UniCourt

Law firms, litigation support firms, and others in the legal industry vertical are quickly turning to legal data as a new and powerful driver of legal marketing and business development efforts. The evolution of access to computing power, combined with the growing availability of legal data — such as court, business, attorney bar and judge data — along with the rise of data science as a discipline, has led to its increased value in the modern economy. It’s no surprise, then, that this trend is coming to the legal industry.