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.

Hamilton County is the third-most-populous county in Ohio and serves a population of over 800,000 citizens. It covers the major metropolitan city of Cincinnati. Lex Machina now includes over 40,000 civil cases filed in the Hamilton County Court, bringing our total number of enhanced state court cases to over 5.7 million civil cases. This is a significant venue for state court litigation in Ohio, particularly for cases involving real property, torts, and other civil matters.

Lex Machina provides valuable data-driven insights about judges, law firms, individual attorneys, and parties in state courts. Hamilton County Court incorporates notable features such as filters for trial rulings, trial resolutions, and trial damages. It also incorporates an extensive collection of case types and document tags, including tags for class action, jury verdict, and medical malpractice. Additionally, litigators can use our recently enhanced cross-court filters to conduct state-wide searches and get new quantified, multi-court analytics on judges, courts, law firms, attorneys, and parties. The inclusion of these unique parameters enables users to find the most relevant information and analytics quickly and easily.

With our new Hamilton County Court module, you can quickly and efficiently discover insights such as:

• The total damages awarded at trial for medical malpractice cases, excluding attorney’s fees was more than $9.2 million.
• The judge with the highest number of real property cases was Judge Jody Luebbers (currently at 1,201 cases).
• Top five Law Firms representing Defendants in Class Action cases are Dinsmore & Shohl, Bricker Graydon, Thompson Hine, BakerHostetler, and Keating Muething & Klekamp.
• The median time to trial (currently at 266 cases) was 705 days.

Lex Machina allows users to filter in order to find the most relevant cases with filters that include the following:

Case Types – Administrative Appeal, Contracts, Real Property, Torts (Non-Vehicle), Torts (Vehicle), Other Civil

Case Tags – Medical Malpractice, Class Action

Document Tags – Answer, Complaint, Jury Verdict, Judgment

Trial Damages – General Damages (Judgment on the Merits), General Damages (Jury Verdict), Attorneys’ Fees / Costs

Trial Rulings – Bench Trial, Default Judgment, Jury Verdict, Other Judgment

Trial Resolutions – Plaintiff Win, Defendant Win, Likely Settlement, Procedural

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. Both new and existing Legal Analytics users will appreciate the easy-to-use interface that lets them access a wealth of new state court features including:

• 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
• 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

State court expansion remains a top priority at Lex Machina. We plan to release more state court modules throughout the coming months.

Depending on your subscription, users can access the Hamilton County Court data now.

To learn more, contact our sales team.