As lawyers we investigate legal documents in detail to interpret terms and analogise or distinguish their meaning while this technique works well with small numbers of legal texts it becomes exceedingly difficult to apply it to hundreds or thousands of contracts statutes or cases to render legal analysis scalable we need a different set of tools this is where legal text mining comes in by leveraging computer science for the study of law we can make sense of large amounts of legal . What is legal data science harnessing the power of computer science and artificial intelligence to scale legal research by analyzing legal documents more efficiently and effectively big legal data. These and other science organizations should be encouraged to do more most judges and lawyers have little creativity when it comes to conceptualizing how certain empirical statements might be examined topics such as predictions of violence the battered woman syndrome post traumatic stress disorder fire and arson investigation birth