Ep 024: Making Legal Research Better, with Judicata Founder Itai Gurari

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With</span> <a href= "https://www.judicata.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Judicata</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">,</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/itai-gurari-b523832"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Itai Gurari</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">believes he has built a better legal research platform. A lawyer and computer scientist, his approach to designing a legal research engine was to first “map the legal genome” -- that is, map the law with extreme accuracy and granularity. The result is a research engine that returns the best results the fastest, he says.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gurari and his company also built</span> <a href= "https://blog.judicata.com/introducing-clerk-848abbed8fd3"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Clerk</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a tool that</span> <a href= "https://www.lawsitesblog.com/2017/10/judicata-readies-release-powerful-tool-analyze-briefs-like-moneyball-motions.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">analyzes the strengths and weaknesses</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">of legal briefs -- like moneyball for motions, he says. “Just as different batters have different on-base percentages, different motions have different probabilities of being granted or denied,” Gurari explains.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After a stint as an associate at Jones Day a decade ago, Gurari started his first legal research company, TraceLaw.com. When that closed in 2010, he joined Google as a software engineer working on</span> <a href= "https://scholar.google.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Google Scholar</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. In 2011, he left Google to start Judicata. With $8 million in financing from some big-name investors, including PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel and Box founders Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith, Judicata was</span> <a href= "https://www.lawsitesblog.com/2017/05/five-years-stealth-mode-judicata-reveals-legal-rese