Lex Machina's newest release offers insights into litigation track records of parties in over 27 million cases across 94 federal district courts and over 1,300 state courts
AUSTIN – Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, announced today that it has officially released “Litigation Footprint,” its continually expanding collection of Legal Analytics on the litigation history of companies in over 27 million cases filed in 94 federal district courts and over 1,300 state courts in 34 states and the District of Columbia.
The data includes Lex Machina’s complete coverage of federal district courts and enhanced state court coverage, along with new expanded basic state court coverage, together constituting the broadest Legal Analytics coverage available, a press release states.
Litigation Footprint enables legal practitioners to craft successful litigation strategies, win cases, and close business by leveraging this unsurpassed expanse and depth of coverage.
According to the press release, Lex Machina already provides the most accurate, comprehensive, and superior Legal Analytics in the industry. Litigation Footprint further amplifies the power of Lex Machina’s Legal Analytics by providing the most extensive survey of party litigation track records, built on the best coverage of electronically available courts. In a few quick clicks, attorneys can instantly map the litigation history of parties in order to illuminate the relationships, trends, and insights that can’t be derived anywhere else, but which are crucial to winning more cases and closing more business.
"Litigation Footprint provides the ability to investigate the litigation track records for companies in over 1,330 state courts and 94 federal district courts encompassing 27 million cases,” said Karl Harris, CEO of Lex Machina. “This enables you to craft successful litigation strategies, win cases, and close business by leveraging the broadest Legal Analytics coverage in the industry.
"Only Lex Machina is able to leverage our graph of 134 million normalized names to discover the cases and venues in which a company has litigated. Our customers are always excited when we expand our Legal Analytics content coverage, and Litigation Footprint is one of the biggest coverage expansions in Lex Machina's history."
As the only Legal Analytics platform that combines an exclusive AI technology with attorney review to analyze the court documents included and used in the creation of Litigation Footprint, Lex Machina does the difficult work of creating accurate analytics that are cleaned, corrected, and enhanced. This exclusive process allows Lex Machina to provide comprehensive data-driven insights about courts, judges, law firms, lawyers, and parties involved in litigation across the country, the release states.
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