Most legal problems, or any of the problems that face a business, have data understanding at their core,” says Thomas Barnett, Paul Hastings’ special counsel for e-discovery and data science. He’ll challenge you to name an area of the law that doesn’t involve data.

Barnett, who founded and led the eDiscovery division of SPi Technologies in a previous career, launched the firm’s 20-person data science team in spring 2014, along with mathematics Ph.D Daniel Krasner, the firm’s director of data science. The firm touts its results as 1,000 times more effective than your average keyword-or predictive coding-based e-discovery.

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