Joanna Goodman reviews Eric Hunter’s book The Sherlock Syndrome: Strategic Success through Big Data and the Darwinian Disruption on using big data to transform legal services.Eric Hunter is a legal technology pioneer. As director of knowledge, innovation & technology strategies at Bradford & Barthel in San Diego, he was a first mover in cloud and open source in the legal sector, introducing Google Apps into the firm in 2009.
He is also a first mover in bringing big data to legal services, using big data analytics to transform Bradford & Barthel’s operations and business model and he heads up the firm’s spin-off consultancy Spherical Models.