After Graduating from UCLA Law school and working for a decade as a litigator at Greenberg Traurig, Rick Merrill entered into the nascent market of legal analytics when he started Gavelytics in 2015. Gavelytics provides detailed analysis of state trial court data, tagging and categorizing its fast-growing data set to enable litigators to learn from empirical legal history. Gavelytics has taken a narrow-but-deep approach, systematically analyzing the data of a state, then scaling the approach to other states. Rick has worked to ensure that the future of legal analytics will be distributed across all lawyer segments, not simply the early adopting top firms who apply analytics in litigation workflow decisions and client recruitment.