Editor’s note: As 2013 approaches, what better time to look back at the last year to see what topics and trends dominated legal technology, and predict what we will still be discussing next December. Retrospection helps analysis and planning, so for the last few days of the year, LTN will be reprising its top stories from 2012. In the story “Big Data Meets Big Law” from the May/June issue of LTN, reporter Tam Harbert puts a future tense in the answer to a common question posed to counsel: “Can you win this case?”

“What are the odds of winning this case, and what’s it going to cost me?” Those are questions clients routinely ask their attorneys. Today, lawyers draw on experience and gut instincts for the answers. Sometimes, they are even right. It may not be long, however, before computers spit out answers with far more accuracy.

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