Understanding Medians (and Averages)

Many of Lex Machina’s new Analytics pages,  public reports, and services engagement reports use median figures as a way to help summarize data, showing, for example, the time-to-trial for a particular judge as a median number.

This post explains what a median is, how a […]

Imagine if you could make a data-driven prediction about how opposing counsel, or a judge, or a party to litigation or a transaction, will behave. Or what results a specific legal strategy or argument will produce. Would you continue to rely exclusively on traditional […]

Lex Machina founder and Stanford Law Professor Mark Lemley says apply means-plus-function rules to software patents: “(W)ith one fell swoop – without changing the patent statute and without invalidating existing patents – we may be able to solve most of the software patent problem.”