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Legal technology is evolving from a support function into a strategic advantage. This article explores how AI, automation, and legal operations are reshaping the way law firms think about technology, efficiency, and the future of legal services.
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UniCourt is proud to announce a groundbreaking release: judgment analytics and comparison of attorneys by key metrics such as trial experience and judgment outcomes. This new suite of analytics is a significant expansion of UniCourt DART (Docket Analytics, Research, and Tracking) and will enable legal professionals to assess case values and counsel performance based on actual trial outcomes.
Data-Driven Judgment Analytics
By leveraging UniCourt’s new judgment analytics, legal professionals can easily:
- Benchmark award metrics by viewing total damages granted and the median amount awarded for specific case types.
- Identify outcome trends to determine the likelihood of certain cases proceeding to a final judgment or verdict.
- Evaluate success rates by analyzing the proportion of judgments and verdicts resolved in favor of plaintiffs versus defendants.
- Anticipate timing by viewing the median time it takes to reach judgments and verdicts.
Advanced Attorney Comparison
By using UniCourt’s sophisticated attorney comparison tool, legal professionals can easily:
- Assess litigation experience by comparing total case counts and the number of judgments/verdicts awarded.
- Analyze win/loss records to identify attorneys with the strongest performance metrics by absolute number of judgments and verdicts won, as well as overall win percentages.
- Compare damages awarded to see the total and median amounts won.
- Conduct head-to-head comparisons between specific attorneys or opposing counsel to inform litigation strategy and counsel selection.
Users can now answer complex questions about litigation trends and attorney experience, such as:
- What’s the median jury award for a personal injury case, and is this specific jurisdiction more favorable to plaintiffs or defendants?
- How long should I expect a case to last if it goes to judgment? What if it goes to trial?
- How does my panel of attorneys compare against each other? Who is the best attorney for this case if it goes to trial?
Integration into the Litigation Knowledge Graph
These new analytics are built into UniCourt’s exclusive Litigation Knowledge Graph, which connects cases, claims, facts, and outcomes directly to the underlying documents and key players involved (attorneys, law firms, judges, and parties). This provides a comprehensive view of the crucial relationships and outcomes most relevant to any specific case.
Learn More about UniCourt’s New Judgment Analytics and Attorney Comparison
UniCourt’s new judgment analytics and attorney comparison tools are currently available for a selection of key state trial courts, with a nationwide expansion coming soon.
You can learn more about UniCourt’s platform here, see our full press release here, or contact a UniCourt Litigation Data Expert here.
When Project Fortress was being built, the question of infrastructure wasn’t a minor technical decision — it was the whole bet. Get the foundation wrong, and everything built on top of it would eventually crack. Get it right, and the platform could do things no point solution ever could.
That’s why Fortress runs on Salesforce. Not because Salesforce is a legal technology company, but precisely because it isn’t one.
- Your clients already run on it.
Salesforce is used by 90% of the Fortune 500. For law firms, that means building on a platform their corporate clients already operate within — not asking those clients to learn a new environment or wait for IT to vet another vendor. For attorneys working inside corporate legal departments, it means working on infrastructure the company already uses and trusts. The practical effect is significant: matter data, deal progress, and client collaboration can flow through a shared environment rather than bouncing between systems that were never designed to talk to each other.
This is one reason the legal tech tools built specifically for legal teams often stall at the edge of the client relationship. They solve problems inside the firm but create friction the moment a client needs visibility. A platform that 90% of Fortune 500 companies already run on doesn’t have that problem.
- The security standards were set by NASA and the federal government.
Legal work carries an unusually high burden when it comes to data protection. Privileged communications, diligence materials, deal terms, litigation strategy — the consequences of a breach are not abstract. Fortress addresses this not by building its own security layer from scratch, but by inheriting the infrastructure Salesforce has spent decades hardening.
Salesforce’s security stack includes AES-256 encryption for data at rest, TLS 1.3 for data in transit, multi-factor authentication, 24/7 monitoring with AI-powered threat detection, and biometric-access data centers distributed across redundant infrastructure. The platform maintains SOC 2 compliance and carries certifications built to the standards required by the U.S. federal government and NASA. When a firm puts its most sensitive work inside Fortress, it sits on the same infrastructure those organizations trust with theirs.
- It scales with the operation — and with AI.
Point solutions are built to solve one problem well. That design is also their ceiling. As a firm grows, adds practice groups, or tries to connect AI to its actual work product, a collection of disconnected tools becomes the obstacle rather than the answer.
Salesforce is a Platform as a Service: a foundation designed to run workflows, data, documents, and collaboration in a single connected system. This is what makes AI useful rather than decorative. When Fortress AI operates inside live matters – analyzing diligence documents, generating issues lists, modeling litigation strategy – it draws from structured data that already lives in the platform. The AI has context. It understands the matter, the firm’s precedent, and the specific posture of the work. That only happens because the underlying platform holds everything in one place.
A fragmented tech stack produces fragmented AI. A unified platform produces AI that actually functions like a colleague.
Project Fortress was built on Salesforce because the legal industry doesn’t need another app. It needs an operating system. Visit us at Booth 410 at Legalweek to see what that looks like in practice.
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Today, leading legal software and services provider Opus 2 announced that the company’s AI-enabled intelligent legal solution platform, which underpins its award-winning litigation and arbitration offerings, is available to law firms who want to extend the software’s value beyond use cases for commercial disputes.
Combining structured data worksheets, online collaboration portals, data-driven dashboards, and other tools—including AI and integrations—legal professionals can quickly design solutions using Opus 2’s platform to help win new business, improve client relationships, and simplify workflows. Examples include workspaces, trackers, hubs, playbooks, toolkits, checklists, and more for matters, clients, deals, and engagements in areas like client collaboration and legal service delivery, in addition to commercial disputes.
If your firm feels behind on AI, consider a different interpretation: you may be early to what actually matters in the long run.
The legal technology market right now is full of drafting tools, research copilots, contract analyzers, and email assistants. Each promises efficiency. Most deliver something narrower: a faster way to work inside the same fragmented systems that existed before.
AI layered onto fragmented operations doesn’t transform them. It accelerates the chaos already present. Without structured context, AI is sophisticated autocomplete. Useful, occasionally impressive, but not strategic.
The firms gaining a sustainable competitive advantage aren’t the ones who adopted the most AI tools first. They’re the ones building the foundation those tools require to actually work.
The shift is from tools to infrastructure.
A real platform – one where the matter lives, where data is structured as work happens, where the team collaborates, and where documents, deadlines, and deal history all sit in one connected ecosystem – changes what AI can do. Inside that environment, AI outputs are grounded in the firm’s own data, precedent, and institutional knowledge. The results stop being generic and start being actionable.
This is the Platform Era. And it is earlier than most people think.
The technology cycle follows a familiar pattern: explosion, proliferation, fatigue, then consolidation. AI tools are proliferating right now, and the consolidation phase is coming. When it arrives, the firms that spent this period building unified infrastructure rather than stacking point solutions will be in a categorically different position than those who didn’t.
Project Fortress was built on exactly this premise. As a matter management platform built on Salesforce by practicing lawyers, Fortress provides the structured foundation that makes AI useful at the practice level: embedded in live matters, connected to firm precedent, and integrated with the document management and collaboration tools attorneys already use.
The first Am Law firm to adopt Project Fortress has seen what that foundation produces: 80%+ faster diligence analysis, significant reductions in manual contract review, and AI that operates as a practical extension of attorney workflows rather than a separate tool requiring a separate login.
The question for legal teams at Legalweek this year isn’t whether to adopt AI. It’s whether the systems underneath it are built to support it.
Project Fortress will be at Booth 410. If you’re thinking about what legal infrastructure should look like in the Platform Era, we’d welcome the conversation.
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