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| author | Mojon, Alexandre Mahari, Robert Lera, Sandro Claudio |
| author_facet | Mojon, Alexandre Mahari, Robert Lera, Sandro Claudio |
| contents | Selecting capable counsel can shape the outcome of litigation, yet evaluating law firm performance remains challenging. Widely used rankings prioritize prestige, size, and revenue rather than empirical litigation outcomes, offering little practical guidance. To address this gap, we build on the Bradley-Terry model and introduce a new ranking framework that treats each lawsuit as a competitive game between plaintiff and defendant law firms. Leveraging a newly constructed dataset of 60,540 U.S. civil lawsuits involving 54,541 law firms, our findings show that existing reputation-based rankings correlate poorly with actual litigation success, whereas our outcome-based ranking substantially improves predictive accuracy. These findings establish a foundation for more transparent, data-driven assessments of legal performance. |
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| spellingShingle | Data-Driven Law Firm Rankings to Reduce Information Asymmetry in Legal Disputes Mojon, Alexandre Mahari, Robert Lera, Sandro Claudio Computers and Society Selecting capable counsel can shape the outcome of litigation, yet evaluating law firm performance remains challenging. Widely used rankings prioritize prestige, size, and revenue rather than empirical litigation outcomes, offering little practical guidance. To address this gap, we build on the Bradley-Terry model and introduce a new ranking framework that treats each lawsuit as a competitive game between plaintiff and defendant law firms. Leveraging a newly constructed dataset of 60,540 U.S. civil lawsuits involving 54,541 law firms, our findings show that existing reputation-based rankings correlate poorly with actual litigation success, whereas our outcome-based ranking substantially improves predictive accuracy. These findings establish a foundation for more transparent, data-driven assessments of legal performance. |
| title | Data-Driven Law Firm Rankings to Reduce Information Asymmetry in Legal Disputes |
| topic | Computers and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.16863 |