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Future Proofing Your Law Firm

By Eric Hunter
April 02, 2014

More than ever, “Future Proofing the Law Firm” is something that is moving in tandem with the predictive nature of our times. In other words, predictive analytics, Big Data and social search are reshaping our consumer behavioral interfaces as well as forward client side corporate integration strategy. Increasingly, clients are leveraging the power of predictive analytics for budgetary and matter integration purposes. This radically changes, among other things, the AFA negotiation dynamic, the potential of which is both dramatic and enormous.

As a profession, we're just one of many that have the potential to be reshaped by both big data and predictive analytics. We already see it in the consumer search and social technology mediums, within our entertainment news and sports mediums ' both in how they choose to promote and advertise. And, we also see it in how data is compiled, analyzed, and predictive outcomes are established based off tracked behavior and preferences.

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