[Imnimo]

>In just a few hours the lawyers had trained a model that provided the outcome of all 80,000 judgements without needing the input of a data scientist at all.

If this is meant to imply it predicted them all correctly, that rings alarm bells to me. 100% accuracy is much more likely to mean something is wrong (label leakage?) than it is to mean you have an amazing model.

[razcle]

No, not 100% accuracy. I've left out details for the sake of brevity but with a precision and recall high enough for the team to be able to answer the questions they cared about.