Courtlink for Law Firms

• Develop complete strategic profiles of your competitors quickly and easily.
  Gain insight into the type and volume of litigation faced by your competitors in comparison to your own litigation trends.
• Gather strategic intelligence on outside counsel you are considering assigning to your case.
  Discover the experience the firm or specific lawyer has in a particular area of law, and see the win/loss record in cases of this type.
• Receive automatic alerts about any new litigation involving subject matter or people/companies of interest.
  The alerts may be customized based on litigant, attorney/firm or judge’s name, or on specific types of legal subject matter in federal appellate or state courts. You can also receive specialized Alerts for companies named as creditors in a bankruptcy, or on any litigation pertaining to a specific patent, class, or subclass.
• Stay on top of new activity in existing cases and learn about events in other cases that may affect your company through automatic e-mail notifications.
• Conduct due diligence.
  Find court dockets that reveal corporate litigation activity involving existing or potential business alliances, alerting you to potential conflicts or risks.
• Identify targeted new business opportunities.
  Research potential prospects and find opportunities to expand your relationship with current clients by profiling their business litigation needs and matching them to your areas of expertise.
• Order documents from any federal or state court nationwide, online or over the phone.

• Strategic Profiles help you gain insight into an opposing party, attorney/law firm and the judge assigned to your case, as well as competitors, suppliers, and other companies of interest.
• Judicial Profiles show a judge’s experience in a particular area of law, and indicate how the judge has ruled in similar cases in the past.
• Attorney Profiles reveal opposing counsel’s practice-area experience, preferred strategies and history with specific judges.
• Litigant Profiles let you research the history of opposing litigants to uncover prior similar cases and discern patterns of case resolution.
• Nature of Suit Profiles identify areas of increasing or decreasing litigation, compare trends on a court-by-court basis, and monitor case types for decline/emerging risk.

This feature also allows you to research potential prospects and find opportunities to expand your relationship with current clients by profiling their business litigation needs and matching them to your areas of expertise.

• Court Docket Search uncovers relevant past and current business litigation activity from over 200 million federal, state and local court records. Powerful and flexible search technology allows you to search by litigant, attorney, law firm, jurisdiction, nature of suit, and keyword.
• Document Finder searches within dockets to pinpoint your opponent’s relevant work product, the presiding judge’s key rulings and other hard-to-find litigation intelligence.
• Search locates court dockets that reveal corporate litigation activity involving existing or potential business alliances, alerting you to potential conflicts or risks.
• Document Retrieval Service lets you order court documents from any federal or state court nationwide, online or over the phone.
• Patent Search shows a list of cases involving a particular patent number. Search by patent class or subclass for a list of related cases.
• Track provides automatic e-mail notification of new activity in existing cases of interest to you so that you can stay on top of what’s happening in your cases and keep abreast of events in other cases that may affect your company.
• Alert notifies you of any new commercial litigation of interest. Get automatic notification of newly filed cases involving you or other companies or individuals of interest by setting up an alert on a litigant, attorney, or subject. You can also specify the desire to receive class-action filings or cases related to a patent class or sub-class.

• How do I contact Customer Support?
  The LexisNexis CourtLink service comes with comprehensive customer support — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our team of professionals is standing by to provide access and serve support, assistance with printing, downloading, ID and technical issues.
  
  For assistance, please call LexisNexis CourtLink Support at 1-888-311-1966.
  
  An additional resource is the LexisNexis^® CourtLink^® Knowledge Base. This site is useful for finding out how LexisNexis^® Customer Support Professionals solve problems and answer questions. 
    
• What courts does LexisNexis CourtLink currently cover?
  Current coverage includes 90 of the 94 U.S. District courts for civil, criminal, and bankruptcy dockets; the Court of Federal Claims; access to the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals; and online access to state court information in 23 states. CourtLink is aggressively adding to its state court content with over 20 new courts in 2007.
• Which U.S. District courts are not yet available through CourtLink?
  Only those courts which do not yet offer electronic storage of documents—which include the Districts of Alaska, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands.
• How far back does CourtLink coverage extend?
  CourtLink has an historic, searchable database that goes back 10-20 years. No other provider offers this depth of information. Coverage currently includes all electronic dockets made available from the U.S. government’s Public Access to Court Records (PACER) system since the system’s creation in the early 1990s. Unlike PACER, CourtLink does not purge dockets. State court coverage is dependent on how far back records are available, how accessible they are through automated processes, and the willingness of the court authorities to allow access to the information.  However, as with Federal records, CourtLink does not purge dockets once they have been received.
• Can I obtain documents through CourtLink?
  In most cases, yes. In cases where electronic documents are available online, you may view a document instantaneously from our database or send a request to retrieve the document from one of our providers. Where documents are not available online, you can order them through our Document Retrieval Service.  Recently, CourtLink added over half a million exclusive documents available online as a result of File & Serve filings.  These documents are largely state-court related.
• Do I need to install software in order to use CourtLink?
  No. This program is web-based and may be accessed from any computer with Internet access.
• How many people within a firm or company can have access to CourtLink?
  Everyone! There is no limit or cost per user. Each user will receive an individual login and password.  Your on-site administrator can limit some access based on individual login.  Conversely, you can share Alerts and Tracks with in-house team members who do not have direct access to CourtLink.

• CourtLink Bankruptcy Solutions Flyer
• CourtLink Intellectual Property Solutions Flyer
• CourtLink Litigation Solutions Flyer
• CourtLink Search Flyer
• CourtLink Track Flyer
• CourtLink Document Retrieval Service Overview
• CourtLink Quick Guide Overview Brochure