Legal Analytics for Multnomah County Circuit Court
Multnomah County Circuit Court is an important venue for state court litigation. Multnomah County is the most populous county in Oregon and serves a population of over 800,000 citizens. It includes Portland, the largest city in Oregon. Multnomah County Circuit Court (“Multnomah County”) is an important venue for civil cases involving contracts, torts, and other civil matters. Lex Machina’s Legal Analytics for Multnomah County provides valuable data-driven insights and trends into the unique characteristics of this state court.
The Multnomah County state court module incorporates notable features such as a filter for collections cases. It also incorporates an extensive collection of case types and document tags. The inclusion of these unique parameters enables users to find the most relevant information and analytics quickly and easily.
How We Work
Lex Machina gathers raw information from state court cases, including downloading millions of state court documents to present the most comprehensive and accurate data possible. We clean, tag, code, enhance, and present the resulting data in a way that makes it easy for you to quickly access insights and grasp trends that are relevant to the legal matter you’re working on.
How We Help
Whether you’re simply searching for a case or looking for more in-depth analytics, you can investigate a party’s litigation track record, assess a law firm’s experience in similar cases, observe patterns in judicial decisions, examine the range of damages awarded at trial or search docket entry text.
Advantages of state court analytics include:
- Understanding timing to key litigation milestones
- Analyzing the record of a specific judge, law firm, attorney, or party
- Reviewing previous trial resolutions, trial damages, and trial rulings for case strategy
- Refining with court-specific filters such as case types and case tags
- Keyword searching within docket entry text and downloaded documents
- Viewing analytics across all state courts or in one particular court
Strategic Applications
Lex Machina helps you answer questions such as:
- What is the median time to trial and time to termination for cases with Judge Waller presiding?
- Has an opposing attorney ever appeared in a case before Judge Bottomly? If so, how many were Torts (Medical Malpractice) cases, and did any go to trial?
- How many Contracts cases had damages awarded by a jury verdict? Which cases are those and what were the damages in each case?
- Who are the top law firms representing defendants that have been involved in Torts (Products Liability) cases over the past five years?
Unique Multnomah County Litigation Data
Lex Machina allows users to filter by the following information in order to find the most relevant cases:
- Case Types – Contract, Employment, Real Property, Torts (General), Torts (Legal Malpractice), Torts (Medical Malpractice), Torts (Products Liability), Torts (Wrongful Death), and Other Civil
- Case Tags – Collections
- Document Tags – Jury Verdict, Complaint, Answer, Judgment
- Trial Damages – General Damages (Judgment on the Merits), General Damages (Jury Verdict), Attorneys’ Fees / Costs
- Trial Rulings – Bench Trial, Jury Verdict, Consent Judgment, Default Judgment, Other Judgment
- Trial Resolutions – Plaintiff Win, Defendant Win, Likely Settlement, Procedural