David Stasior

David Stasior is the founder of Broken Scales, the company publishing Slot Machine Justice, and Unmeasured Justice, a New Hampshire nonprofit that measures how the American legal system behaves, not what it says. His research applies AI and natural language processing to public records that have never been systematically analyzed, beginning with the attorney discipline record of Massachusetts: roughly 4,000 decisions spanning 24 years.

Before turning to the legal system, he spent three decades in healthcare analytics, where he founded LeapFrogRx. His research and analytic projects ranged from improving patient care in a Medical Intensive Care Unit to dissecting why an established oral medication exceeded quarterly sales expectations in just three states. He holds an MD from Harvard Medical School, an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School, and an undergraduate degree from Cornell University.

He came to the legal system twice: first as a criminal defendant, then as an analyst. Slot Machine Justice documents what the discipline data shows: a system that reports resolving 96 percent of complaints each year, sanctions similar conduct with dissimilar results, and has never once enforced the rule requiring lawyers to report each other's misconduct.

He lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.