The science of business analytics has had a major impact on the way lawyers approach their legal work. Through data-driven technologies, savvy legal teams can glean insight and give themselves a significant advantage in the courtroom. Never heard of legal analytics? Here's a Guidance Note on What is Legal Analytics? along with a handy Glossary of 8 Legal Analytics Terms You Should Know.

It's a major understatement to say that human speech and writing patterns can vary greatly—and that has major ramifications in the legal industry where individual words and phrases carry a great deal of significance. That means, in order to effectively comb through a document, a computer must learn how to recognize and interpret written human language in order to retrieve the right information for a requested search.

And that's precisely what the data scientists and attorneys over at Ravel™ and LexisNexis® spent years doing.