The San Francisco Chronicle awarded Lex Machina the “Top Workplace Award”
This prestigious award is given to companies that exemplify a great workplace, such as coming up with innovative ideas and creating a respected and supportive environment. Some survey questions consisted of the following: “[whether] new ideas are encouraged at Lex Machina” and “[whether] my job makes me feel like I [...]
Lex Machina Releases its 2024 Contracts: Commercial Litigation Report
Lex Machina is proud to release its 2024 Contracts: Commercial Litigation Report, which provides insights into commercial litigation trends in federal district court and appellate court over the three-year period from 2021 to 2023. This report surveys emerging trends in case filings (including federal appellate cases), most active venues, judges, [...]
High-Volume Plaintiffs Turning Away from the Western District of Texas
Following up on a Lex Machina blog post last year on patent case filings in the Eastern and Western District of Texas, data from the first six months of 2024 shows that: 1. The steep drop in patent case filings by High-Volume Plaintiffs in 2023 may be bottoming out. In [...]
Understanding Legal Analytics for Civil Rights: A Conversation with Lex Machina Civil Rights Legal Data Expert, Samantha Pallini – Part 2
How can the analytics in Lex Machina provide a full picture of this practice area? Sam: In a basic sense, Civil Rights has everything that most other practice areas do–damages, injunctions, findings, appeals. But the requests for relief in Civil Rights cases typically pursue
Understanding Legal Analytics for Civil Rights: A Conversation with Lex Machina Civil Rights Legal Data Expert, Samantha Pallini – Part 1
What is your name and position at Lex Machina? Sam: My name is Samantha Pallini, and I am the Legal Data Expert for our Civil Rights module. My role is to create, maintain, and oversee the six different Civil Rights modules; part of that involves keeping my finger on the [...]
Lex Machina Launches Enhanced Legal Analytics for Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas
The Lex Machina team is excited to launch enhanced Legal Analytics for Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas (“Hamilton County Court”). This represents Lex Machina’s first enhanced court in the Midwest, with many more to come in the future. Hamilton County Court joins Lex Machina’s state court coverage as the [...]
Lex Machina attends the 2024 AALL Annual Meeting and Conference
Lex Machina participated in the 2024 American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual Meeting and Conference in Chicago, Illinois. The company showcased its newest enhancements of the product and facilitated discussions about the product with law librarians and those practicing in academia. “We [engaged in] a lot of good conversations [...]
Schedule A Cases Continue to Rise in the Northern District of Illinois
Since our last blog post about the concentration of design patent cases filed against Schedule A defendants between 2020 and 2022 in the Northern District of Illinois, Lex Machina’s data indicates that these filings increased in that district in 2023 and continue to increase during the first half of 2024. [...]
Lex Machina Attends the 2024 Annual Conference of NAACL
In the recent climate of large language models being introduced and implemented into the fiber of legal technology products, Lex Machina continues to keep its finger on the pulse and listen to influential voices in the technology industry, such as participating in the 2024 Annual NAACL Conference.
IPR Institution Rates for Trials Terminated 2021-2023 Vary by PTO Technology Center for the Challenged Patent
There are nine Technology Centers in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where each technology center comprises groups of patent examiners with specific scientific or technical domain expertise
Lex Machina Releases its 2024 Consumer Protection Litigation Report
Lex Machina is proud to release its 2024 Consumer Protection Litigation Report, which provides insights into consumer protection litigation trends in federal district court and appellate court over the three-year period from 2021 to 2023.
Lex Machina’s Customer Service is Top Ranked
In the era of self checkouts and automated systems directing and answering customer questions, Lex Machina continues to bridge the communication gap between their customers and prospects with live agents that hold JDs. This strategy has paid off–our customer support satisfaction score is 98% out of 100%, making Lex Machina [...]