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82 P E E R T O P E E R : I L T A ' S Q U A R T E R L Y M A G A Z I N E | W I N T E R 2 0 2 1 a large amount of data. Two of the most popular tools for developing heat map analytics are Power BI and Tableau. With the appropriate skillset, these tools allow law firms to visualize any data they choose in any format they'd like, including heatmaps. At the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Fisher Phillips used Power BI to develop a COVID-19 Employment Litigation Tracker: a public-facing heat map that analyzes data from the 2000+ COVID-19 related lawsuits filed to date. 17 Available on our firm's website, the Tracker categorizes each case (by claim type, jurisdiction, employer-size, industry, claims asserted, etc.), and displays trends and aggregate information, allowing employers to take proactive steps to avoid costly COVID-19 litigation going forward. As testament to the growing appreciation for legal data analytics, we are pleased to report that our Tracker was featured in CNN, Reuters, Cheddar, Forbes, Law.com, The Atlantic, and Employment Law 360, among other news sources. A screen shot appears below: • Off-the-shelf Legal Data Analytics tools: Finally, a growing number of research vendors have developed subscription-based predictive analytics products that analyze public docket information. Among them are Lex Machina, Trellis, Bloomberg Analytics, Gavelytics, Monitor Suite, and West Analytics. These tools allow attorneys to assess how their judge tends to rule on various motions, tends to manage a docket, and rule on their cases (with damages information, when available), and how opposing counsel and/ or law firms tend to litigate. These are extremely valuable tools, especially for firms who lack the resources to develop such systems in house. So Are Robots Coming For Our Jobs? Advances in technology will always disrupt the workforce in some capacity. In the past three hundred years alone, the world has seen the first industrial revolution (known for using water and steam to mechanize production), the second industrial revolution (known for using electricity, gas, and oil-based power for production, leading to the development of cars, airplanes, the telegraph, and the telephone), the third industrial revolution (known for nuclear energy, electronics, and information technology, including space travel, electronics, computers, telecommunications, and robotics). We are now in the fourth industrial revolution: unprecedented processing power, storage capacity, and access to knowledge, including breakthroughs in A.I., robotics, the Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles, nanotechnology, biotechnology, and more. 18 Each of these revolutions are disruptive to the workforces of the time, and the legal profession is not immune to this phenomenon. But there is no need to put our collective heads in the sand. To the contrary, the A.I. and Data Analytics tools we have surveyed are a complement, rather than a substitute, to lawyers. F R O M T H E K M C C T

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