Lex Machina Achieves Complete Coverage of all New York City Counties
The Lex Machina team is excited to announce that we have launched the remaining New York City state court modules, completing the coverage of all five New York City counties. The five New York City state court modules include nearly half a million civil court cases filed since January 2016. [...]
Exploring the Impact of the Pandemic on Litigation in Federal District Courts (January through October 2020)
Lex Machina monitors and reports on how courts are affected by the social changes due to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic through our COVID-19 blog posts, the COVID-19 Impact Analyzer App that is publicly accessible, and in-product case tagging for litigation caused by COVID-19. […]
Enterprise: The Optimal Package at the Optimal Time
It has been an unusual time for the world as a whole and the legal community in particular. With large-scale upheavals and fast-moving changes, Lex Machina has worked hard to keep the legal profession up-to-date through our blog posts, our publicly-available COVID App Analyzer, and our unmatched data-driven Legal Analytics. [...]
Lex Machina Releases its First Torts Report
Lex Machina is excited to announce the release of its first Torts Litigation Report. An overview of trends and insights in federal district court, the report includes data from 2010 through September 30, 2020. This report features statistics broken down into categories based on Lex Machina’s case-type tagging system. [...]
Lex Machina Announces New Data Breach Expansion to the Consumer Protection Module
The Lex Machina team is excited to announce the release of its Data Breach tag and enhanced analytics as part of its Consumer Protection module. Including nearly 3,000 cases, this important data set includes cases alleging harm resulting from the inadvertent or unauthorized disclosure of consumer data collected by the [...]
Lex Machina Releases 2020 Special Report: Impacts of COVID-19 on Employment Litigation
Lex Machina is proud to release its Special Report on the Impacts of COVID-19 on Employment Litigation in Federal Court. This Special Report examines the impact of COVID-19 on Employment litigation in federal district court. Part of this examination included surveying how court activity has changed in 2020 versus previous [...]
Karl Harris Interviewed by Forbes Magazine on the Launch of New York County Supreme Court and the Future of Legal Analytics
A recent article in Forbes Magazine highlights Lex Machina’s recent release of the New York County Supreme Court module, and discusses the growing importance of legal analytics in the legal profession. Forbes interviewed Karl Harris, CEO of Lex Machina, […]
The Ongoing Impact of the Pandemic on Case Filings in State Courts: June-September 2020
Not long after the COVID-19 pandemic began, Lex Machina analyzed its state civil trial court modules to examine how the pandemic-driven shutdown affected new case filings in state courts. Now, several months into the pandemic, Lex Machina conducted another survey of our state court data to provide an analysis of [...]
Lex Machina Launches Legal Analytics for New York County Supreme Court
The Lex Machina team is excited to launch Legal Analytics for New York County Supreme Court (“New York County”). This court covers Manhattan and is the first of five state court modules we plan to release that encompass the New York City area. Including over 119,000 civil court cases filed [...]
An Updated Analysis of Litigation Caused By COVID-19
As COVID-19 continues to affect so many aspects of life, disputes caused by COVID-19 have increased and evolved. Lex Machina is tracking cases that have been filed due to the coronavirus health crisis or related societal changes. Previously, we tracked new litigation caused by COVID-19 for federal district court cases [...]
Lex Machina Steps Forward to Fulfill Crucial Role in Wake of Pandemic
A recent article in CIO Applications discusses what happened when the disruptive effect of the pandemic extended to all areas of the legal profession. The article describes how Lex Machina stepped forward to aid the legal community by leveraging its position as a leading provider of legal analytics, in order [...]
Josh Becker Pens Guest Column on Pandemic-Driven Innovation
LawSites Blog recently featured a guest column by Josh Becker, LexisNexis head of legal analytics and chairman of Lex Machina. In his article, Becker discusses the unexpected side effects of the global pandemic, which has driven the legal sector to undergo a “decade’s worth of social and technological innovation” in [...]