Lex Machina Releases its 2023 Contracts: Commercial Litigation Report
Lex Machina is proud to release its 2023 Contracts: Commercial Litigation Report, which provides insights into commercial litigation trends in federal district court and appellate court over the three-year period from 2020 to 2022. This report surveys emerging trends in case filings (including federal appellate cases), most active venues, judges, [...]
Lex Machina Releases its 2023 Torts Litigation Report
Lex Machina is proud to release its 2023 Torts Litigation Report, which provides insights into torts litigation trends in federal district court and appellate court over the three-year period from 2020 to 2022. This report surveys emerging trends in case filings (including federal appellate cases), most active venues, judges, law [...]
Lex Machina Launches Legal Analytics for Class Action Litigation
The Lex Machina team is excited to launch Legal Analytics for class action litigation (the “Class Action Analytics”). Class Action Analytics pertain to cases in which a plaintiff alleges a claim on behalf of a group or class of individuals pleaded as Rule 23 class actions. Consisting of over 140,000 [...]
Design Patent Cases Against “Schedule A” Defendants Concentrated in the Northern District of Illinois
Previously, Lex Machina noted the popularity of the Northern District of Illinois for design patent cases. For the past three years, the Northern District of Illinois has also been one of the most popular venues for a design patent case often referred to as a “Schedule A” case because the [...]
Patent Case Filings Increase in the Eastern District of Texas; Western District of Texas Still Popular
Lex Machina’s data from January 1, 2023 to September 30, 2023 shows the continued impact of the July 2022 order by then-Chief Judge Orlando Garcia of the Western District of Texas, which mandated that patent cases filed in the Waco Division would no longer be automatically assigned to Judge Alan [...]
Lex Machina Releases its 2023 Real Property Litigation Report
Lex Machina is proud to release its 2023 Real Property Litigation Report, which provides insights into real property litigation trends in federal district court and appellate court over the five-year period from 2018 to 2022. This report surveys emerging trends in case filings (including federal appellate cases), most active venues, [...]
Webcast on the 2023 Product Liability Litigation Report
Lex Machina hosted a webcast on the recently released Product Liability Litigation Report 2023. The webcast featured Robbie Jost (Counsel at Crowell & Moring), Richard North (Partner at Nelson Mullins), Ron Porter (Lex Machina’s Legal Data Expert in Product Liability Litigation), and Aria Nejad (Lex Machina’s in-house counsel).
Oregon Courts Expansion
The Lex Machina team has released state court analytics for 27 additional counties in Oregon, bringing comprehensive coverage to all 36 circuit courts in Oregon (the “Oregon Courts”). With the Oregon Courts, Lex Machina now includes over 300,000 civil cases filed in Oregon courts that serve the population of Oregon. [...]
Top Signs Your Firm Is In Need of Legal Analytics
Law.com recently featured an article written by Aria Nejad, In-house Counsel at Lex Machina. In his article, Nejad discusses the top signs a law firm is in need of Legal Analytics and how the tool can help lawyers stay ahead of the competition and provide the best counsel to their [...]
Lex Machina CEO Karl Harris Weighs in on the Future of Generative AI in Legal Tech
A recent article in Above the Law (ATL) highlights the sudden recent fascination with AI and how it can be tempting for AI enthusiasts to get carried away by speculation over what AI might one day be able to accomplish instead of its current capabilities and their more immediate implications. [...]
Lex Machina Releases its 2023 Product Liability Litigation Report
Lex Machina is proud to release its 2023 Product Liability Litigation Report, which provides insights into trade secret litigation trends in federal district court and appellate court over the five-year period from 2018 to 2022. This report surveys emerging trends in case filings (including federal appellate cases), most active venues, [...]
Lex Machina Releases its 2023 Employment Litigation Report
Lex Machina is proud to release its 2023 Employment Litigation Report, which provides insights into employment litigation trends in federal district court and appellate court over the three-year period from 2020 to 2022. This report surveys emerging trends in case filings (including federal appellate cases), most active venues, judges, law [...]