The Future is Now: Winning More Business and Cases with Legal Analytics

Mr. Geovanes is a data scientist and business executive with over 25 years of experience. He provides a unique hybrid background that combines deep data and analytical capabilities along with proven technical, project management, legal and business consulting skills.

Peter specializes in applying state-of-the-art analytics, business intelligence tools and modeling techniques to generate legal insights and improve firm performance. He leads Winston & Strawn’s Data Strategy & Analytics team with notable accomplishments across early case assessment, pricing & budgeting, business operations and forecasting.

Prior to joining Winston & Strawn, Peter was a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal, a Director and Analytics Market Leader with PwC, a Principal for a regional consulting firm, a senior project manager for SPSS and proudly served as a commissioned Officer in the United States Navy.

Peter received his J.D. from Northwestern Ca University, his MBA from University of Phoenix and his B.S. from the University of Illinois and is based in the Chicago metro Area.

As CEO, Karl leads strategy and operations at Lex Machina. Previously, Karl led all product development, product strategy, and engineering efforts at Lex Machina as CTO and Vice President of Products through Lex Machina’s successful acquisition by LexisNexis.

Prior to Lex Machina, Karl worked as a Fellow at XSeed Capital Management, a seed stage venture firm and Lex Machina’s lead investor. He also served as Vice President of Product Management and as Vice President of Engineering for Flurry, Inc., the provider of the largest mobile analytics and monetization platform, where he was a member of the founding team before Flurry was acquired by Yahoo. Prior to Flurry, Karl spent five years building sonar systems for Applied Research Laboratories of the University of Texas at Austin.

Karl holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, and while in law school worked in Fish & Richardson’s patent litigation and prosecution groups. Karl also holds an M.S. in Computer Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin and an A.B. in Computer Science from Dartmouth College.

Eric is a partner in DLA Piper’s Litigation Group. In his practice, Eric specializes in the assessment, quantification and sale of litigation risk through predictive modeling and litigation analytics, with a particular emphasis on the utilization of such services to provide industry leading manufacturers, sellers and distributors with strategic advice on how to avoid and manage risk throughout the world. He has represented nearly every class of manufacturer in both the litigation and transactional arenas, and has built a reputation for helping clients avoid, mitigate and manage pending and potential litigation risks through predictive analytics, due diligence, deal structuring, pre-marketing risk assessment, and the development of strategic solutions to acquired risks. As Chair of the firm’s Litigation Innovation Committee, and Vice Chair of the Innovation Review Board, Eric is also responsible for evaluating, creating and implementing innovative products, processes and solutions that are fundamentally transforming the way in which law is practiced.