Improving litigation strategy with data analytics

Assistance to a federal regulator investigating the financial activities of two large companies

  • provided guidance on the terms of information requests for the case

  • performed a statistical analysis of large volumes of consumer data, analysing patterns in the data

  • formulated and tested various case theories against the data

  • provided consise textual and graphical summaries of our findings to counsel

  • conducted forensic analysis of code obtained from the investigated companies to determine their operations

Housing-markets-based class action

  • performed a statistical analysis of large volumes of housing market data

  • analysed and assessed the quantitative merit of client and opponent expert reports

  • reconstructed the methods and logic underpinning client and opponent expert reports, explaining these methods, and their relative strengths and weaknesses to counsel

  • conducted a forensic analysis of the code used by the opponent expert

Living Wonders Reconsideration Requests

  • provided guidance on the terms of the reconsideration requests for the case

  • built the logical framework for the case

  • built the evidence database for the case

  • performed an automated web-based data-mining analysis of over 3000 government reports on 2120 species and 29 protected areas, investigating hundreds of thousands of document pages

  • performed a nation-wide quantitative geo-spatial analysis of climate-driven impacts on these species and areas

Waratah Coal Pty Ltd v Youth Verdict Ltd & Ors QLC 21

  • conducted a forensic analysis of expert report on coal markets

  • reconstructed the methods and logic underpinning the opponent expert reports

  • identified weaknesses, flaws and exaggerations in the opponent expert report

  • communicated critical findings to solicitors and counsel that were effective in undermining the credibility of the opponent expert witness

Commercial litigation for smaller business clients

  • assessed the quantitative merit of client’s cases

  • acted as a quantitative interpreter of clients cases

  • engaged directly with clients to form and test case-theories with their business data

  • built logical frameworks for clients’ cases

  • provided counsel with insights the strengths and weaknesses of client and opponent