Right now it can be difficult for solicitors to know who are more experienced or competent counsel when they are looking for someone to brief. It would be amazing to have an equivalent to an academic H-Index, and would be quite easily implemented (eg in each decision, the counsel's name is crawled and aggregated to a particular counsel's 'profile'. Counsel could register on jade and claim their profile and fill in details like a link to their bio etc. and can 'claim' decisions which are missed by the automatic function. Similar to eg google scholar or academia.edu.

The system could then generate a 'J-Index', which could be calculated by weighing several factors eg the number of decisions, the court the decision was in, whether led or unled(?), the number of citations of each decision (could even go a couple of levels of citation eg citations to decisions which cite your decision, with each level having less weight), etc etc. Or just keep it simple like the H-Index.

The H-index has become very important for academics, and I could see something similar being relevant to not just briefs, but appointments to the bench, government positions, inquiries, appointment as QC etc. Would be great. I'm happy to be on the panel to design it.