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After a full day in court, an attorney returns to the office to prepare a motion that could make or break her client’s case. She knows the arguments must be precise, the evidence compelling, and the reasoning aligned with how similar motions have been decided in the past.
Rather than relying solely on instinct, she turns to Context to analyze the legal language that shapes success. Context examines the precise words and reasoning judges have found persuasive in past opinions, helping her frame arguments that resonate. It reveals how specific phrases, authorities, and rhetorical styles have influenced rulings across hundreds of comparable motions. At the same time, she uses Lex Machina to uncover the broader litigation landscape, analyzing patterns in opposing counsel behavior, timing, damages, and judicial tendencies. Together, Context and Lex Machina connect the language of the law with the data behind it, giving her a complete, evidence-based strategy.
Insight into the judge’s previous rulings and their patterns, as made possible by Context and Lex Machina, can very well be the difference between success and failure for your client.
This is just one example of how advanced litigation intelligence from LexisNexis drives superior resolutions. From business development, venue selection, and motion practice through settlement negotiations, trials, and appeals, Lex Machina and Context provide law offices with powerful empirical evidence to inform data-driven strategies for civil litigation.
With its unique data analytics for the legal language itself contained within counsels’ briefs and judges’ opinions, Context helps litigators assess whether a motion is worth filing and guides them to pursue arguments more likely to succeed based on historical patterns. For litigators, this can turn uncertainty into an advantage. Instead of relying solely on instinct or anecdote, lawyers can ground their motion strategies in data.
Context provides unparalleled linguistic and behavioral analytics drawn directly from court language, revealing how judges think, how they have ruled on similar arguments, and which reasoning they tend to find persuasive. By surfacing motion outcomes across more than 100 motion types and mapping how judicial language evolves over time, Context helps attorneys frame their arguments with precision and confidence.
A particularly valuable application for Context lies in expert witness analysis. Using Context, legal professionals can confidently select the right witnesses for their cases by searching and comparing hundreds of thousands of experts based on their area of expertise and testimonial experience. For each expert, legal professionals can discover their most discussed facts and subjects as well as the outcomes of challenges against their testimony. This helps you choose the best experts for your cases and cross-examine adversarial witnesses more effectively.
Context also enhances motion and expert analysis through direct links to underlying opinions, empowering users to review the reasoning behind every decision. Integration with Lexis+® enables seamless access to related case law, briefs, and analytical materials all from a single platform, helping attorneys save time and support arguments with authoritative sources.
Lex Machina extends analytical insights into the broader litigation lifecycle. Designed to illuminate the entire civil litigation landscape, the premier Legal Analytics platform transforms raw court data into strategic intelligence. In addition to insights from motion outcomes, litigators can analyze case outcomes to estimate liability risk and exposure to damages. That helps clients make informed decisions about whether to compromise or go to trial. During settlement negotiations, legal and insurance professionals can bring data-backed insights to the table, demonstrating how similar cases have resolved and what damages were awarded.
The benefits extend further. For trial preparation, Lex Machina highlights patterns in opposing counsel behavior and fact-finder tendencies, thereby helping teams prioritize arguments and anticipate challenges. Appeals from U.S. district court cases can be examined in perspective, revealing reversal rates for courts and judges along with the appellate strategies that have historically succeeded.
Beyond case management, Lex Machina also drives strategic decision-making at the organizational level. Law firms use litigation analytics from Lex Machina for effective client prospecting, identifying industries or parties with recurring litigation patterns matching the firm’s areas of focus. Marketing and business development teams rely on analytics from Lex Machina to showcase firm performance and results in specific venues or case types. Even lateral hiring decisions can benefit from Lex Machina, revealing a candidate’s client base, experience, and history of success.
Context allows companies and law firms to understand how a specific litigator has argued, how a given expert has testified, and how a particular court or judge has ruled on motions. Lex Machina offers unmatched scope in case patterns, providing outcome analytics that capture who won, how much money, by what means, how long it took, and more for each commercially relevant case in U.S. federal courts and more than 100 state courts.
When combined, Context and Lex Machina create a uniquely comprehensive litigation intelligence ecosystem. Context empowers argument-level precision and judicial insight, while Lex Machina enable data-empowered law offices to approach common litigation workflows with greater confidence and precision. Together, they enable legal professionals to craft persuasive arguments grounded in linguistic analysis and supported by empirical litigation data, enhancing every phase of strategy from drafting motions to advising clients.
See what’s possible when Context and Lex Machina work in sync to power litigation intelligence. Visit the Context product page for more information and request a free trial. Visit the Lex Machina product page for more information and to sign up for a free demonstration and customized analytical report.