Survey: Some Lawyers View Data As Threat, Investment Growing

There’s a vast amount of speculation about how analytics is changing the legal industry, and now there’s a little bit of hard data to sift.

On Monday, the consultants at Huron Legal — which specializes in e-discovery — released a survey of 129 professionals — from corporate legal departments, law firms and government related entities — who were polled during the LegalTech New York conference in February.

The survey probed how lawyers are using new “analytics” software — programs that can harness data. For instance, some of these programs track litigation and try to predict outcomes in cases, so that lawyers ...