September 18, 2024

Understanding Legal Analytics for Contracts – Part 2

Now, let’s take a deeper look at the commercial cases. These cases are incredibly valuable to litigators. Our analytics allow you to look into what is going on in business disputes, who’s winning, who’s losing, and what kind of claim(s) they are bringing. Again, we can see what is happening in these types of cases in our case resolution analytics. As you can see, most of these types of cases...

September 17, 2024

Understanding Legal Analytics for Contracts – Part 1

What is your name and position at Lex Machina? Also, can you provide us with some of your background? Karen: My name is Karen Chadwick, and I am the Lex Machina Legal Data Expert for Commercial Law. Prior to working at Lex Machina, I served as in-house counsel for a major automotive supplier in Michigan. Also, I worked for a major law firm in Detroit. Can you tell us more about the contracts module in Lex Machina...

September 17, 2024

Lex Machina Releases its 2024 Trade Secret Litigation Report

Lex Machina is proud to release its 2024 Trade Secret Litigation Report, which provides insights into trade secret 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, law firms, attorneys, parties, timing metrics, case resolutions, findings, and...

August 29, 2024

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 am part of something meaningful.” Lex Machina Senior Director of Engineering...

August 22, 2024

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, law firms, attorneys, parties, timing metrics, case resolutions, findings...

August 15, 2024

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 2023, High-Volume Plaintiffs filed 962 cases in the U.S., a 43 percent decrease from 2022. But in the first six months of 2024, High-Volume Plaintiffs...

August 14, 2024

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 two avenues. The first avenue is seeking monetary relief, such as compensatory or punitive damages. The second avenue is asking for non-monetary...

August 13, 2024

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 pulse of what is going on in Civil Rights litigation. I also ensure we’re prioritizing data integrity, that important cases are being highlighted...

August 12, 2024

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 101st enhanced state court, alongside over 1,200 Litigation Footprint state courts. ...

August 12, 2024

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 with current customers and prospects,” said Lex Machina Practice Area...

July 24, 2024

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. In 2023, 80 percent of all design patent cases filed against Schedule A defendants in the U.S. were filed...

July 10, 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 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) in Mexico City, Mexico. Lex Machina Principal...

July 08, 2024

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 such as Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components (Technology Center 2800) or Communications (Technology Center 2600). Lex Machina’s Patent Trial and Appeals Board (“PTAB”) data on Inter...

July 03, 2024

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. This report surveys emerging trends in case filings (including federal appellate cases), most active venues, judges, law firms, attorneys, parties, timing metrics, case resolutions,...

July 01, 2024

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 the highest-rated product for customer support in the LexisNexis arsenal. The support satisfaction...

June 17, 2024

FORTUNE Magazine Names Lex Machina As One of the Best Workplaces in the Bay Area

Fortune magazine and Great Place To Work® have selected Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, as one of this year’s Best Workplaces in the Bay Area. This is Lex Machina’s first time being named to this prestigious list, coming in at No. 64 . In order to earn this honor, Lex Machina surpassed rigorous benchmarks to establish itself as one of the best workplaces among companies headquartered in the San Francisco...

June 13, 2024

Lex Machina Releases its 2024 Insurance Litigation Report

Lex Machina is proud to release its 2024 Insurance Litigation Report, which provides insights into insurance 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, law firms, attorneys, parties, timing metrics, case resolutions, findings, and damages...

June 06, 2024

Trend Report: Trade Secret Cases Terminated in 2023

Claimants prevailed over claim defendants by a more than 3 to 1 margin in trade secret misappropriation cases that terminated between January 1 and December 31, 2023. This includes trade secret misappropriation cases under the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) (which also includes cases where misappropriation was alleged under the DTSA and state trade secret law) and cases where DTSA is not alleged and the only...

June 03, 2024

Webcast on the 2024 Class Action Litigation Report

On May 2, 2024, Lex Machina hosted a webcast on the recently released 2024 Class Action Report. The webcast featured guest speakers Wesley Sze (Senior Associate at Gibson Dunn) and Laura Hopkins (Lex Machina’s Legal Data Expert in Class Action Litigation), moderated by Gloria Huang, (Lex Machina’s Product Marketing Manager). They discussed overarching trends in class action litigation including case filing...

May 30, 2024

Lex Machina Launches Legal Analytics for First Amendment Cases

The Lex Machina team is excited to launch expanded Legal Analytics for litigation involving claims brought pursuant to the First Amendment, Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), and Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) (the “First Amendment Cases”). Consisting of more than 40,000 cases, the First Amendment Cases give practitioners critical insights on judges, courts, law firms...

May 22, 2024

The Impact of Lex Machina’s New Legal Analytics on Non-Compete Clauses

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission issued its Non-Compete Clause Rule with a stated effective date 120 days after publication of the rule in the Federal Register. The rule, and the FTC’s authority to issue the rule, are controversial 1 . The rule is currently the subject of at least two lawsuits. 2 Lex Machina has recently added analytics to its federal district court contracts module with respect...

May 02, 2024

Lex Machina Releases its 2024 Class Action Litigation Report

Lex Machina is proud to release its 2024 Class Action Litigation Report, which provides insights into class action 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, law firms, attorneys, parties, timing metrics, case resolutions, and damages. The...

May 01, 2024

Lex Machina Achieves Coverage of 100 Enhanced State Courts

Lex Machina is proud to reach a momentous milestone of expanding its enhanced coverage of state courts to 100 courts with the addition of Suffolk County Supreme Court and Westchester County Supreme Court (the “ New York Courts ”) and Oklahoma County District Court (the “ Oklahoma Court ”). With these new enhanced courts, Lex Machina now provides enhanced Legal Analytics coverage of 62% of the...

April 04, 2024

Lex Machina Releases its 2024 Antitrust Litigation Report

Lex Machina is proud to release its 2024 Antitrust Litigation Report, which provides insights into antitrust 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, law firms, attorneys, parties, timing metrics, case resolutions, findings, and damages...

March 20, 2024

Lex Machina Launches Litigation Footprint

The Lex Machina team is excited to launch Litigation Footprint, a groundbreaking expansion that provides the broadest available Legal Analytics coverage of litigation track records of parties across the United States. With Litigation Footprint, Lex Machina now offers Legal Analytics on the litigation history of companies in over 27 million cases filed in 94 federal district courts and over 1,300 state courts, built...