Legal hiring has long relied on two signals: pedigree and referral. Both are weak predictors of outcomes in a profession where the difference between winning and losing a matter often comes down to specific, demonstrable experience.
What the record shows
Litigation records, case outcomes, and an attorney's actual track record reveal what a resume cannot: how often someone has appeared in the matters at hand, against which opponents, and with what results. Lateral Compass reads these signals across every practice area — and, in intellectual property, down to PTAB outcomes and claim-construction history.
Built on more than a decade of data
This isn't a database anyone can buy. Lateral Compass runs on the data Patexia has built and refined over more than a decade — spanning attorneys, cases, and law firms — and on the AI ranking engine that turns it into a usable signal. That foundation is what lets us measure candidates against evidence at scale.
A better signal
When you measure candidates against real case outcomes, shortlists get shorter and stronger. That's the premise Lateral Compass is built on.