NPC Newsmaker Program: How the Legal Profession is Embracing Algorithms and Predictive Analytics to Advance the Law

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Mar 16, 2015, 01:31 ET

WASHINGTON, March 16, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- We are increasingly living in an algorithmic world, where advanced analytical techniques are being used to predict human behavior across a spectrum of disciplines. The legal profession is hardly immune, and has started to embrace predictive analytics in litigation and in solving client problems associated with Big Data. Experts on how the law is advancing in our algorithmic era will discuss the topic at a National Press Club Newsmakers news conference on March 24.

The panel will be headed by Jason R. Baron, an internationally recognized expert in e-discovery and co-chair of a new Information Governance Initiative and former Director of Litigation for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Other panelists include Chida Chidambaram, CEO, Openosmium and Founder & Leader, Google Developer Group - DC and Steve Henn, Head of UBIC North America, a leader in data management and e-Discovery.

This Newsmakers news conference is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Tuesday, March 24 in the club's Murrow Room, on the 13th Floor of the National Press Building, 529 14th St., NW, Washington, D.C.

Like all Newsmaker events, this news conference is free and open to club members and credentialed media. No advance registration is required.

Contact:
Tejinder Singh, NPC Newsmakers Event Host
202-503-8052, [email protected]

Herb Perone, NPC Newsmakers Chair
301-512-7636 or [email protected]

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SOURCE National Press Club