By Madison Johnson, Esq. | Marketing Manager Legal analytics has now become table stakes for litigation, with roughly seven in 10 legal professionals at law firms of various sizes using them in 2024, according to Lex Machina’s most recent The Impact of...
A recent 2024 survey of more than 350 legal professionals from law firms of all sizes confirmed the value of Legal Analytics. A record 100% of users found Legal Analytics to be valuable, while 83% of non-users also viewed Legal Analytics as valuable. In addition...
On February 27, 2024, Lex Machina hosted a webcast on the Legal Analytics Survey Results 2024: The Impact of Legal Analytics. Karl Harris, CEO of Lex Machina, interviewed Steven Lerner, Senior Reporter at Law360. They discussed the results from the latest Legal...
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...
Patent case filings in the Southern District of Florida have declined by 21.5 percent between 2022 and 2023 from 79 to 62. However, a specific type of patent case filing has increased significantly in that district this year – patent cases against “Schedule...
Lex Machina briefly examined the analytics for the 3,436 patent cases that terminated in 2023. Slightly less than half, or 1,700 cases, were in one of three district courts: the Western District of Texas, the Eastern District of Texas, or the District of Delaware...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Summary: Lexis vs. Lexis+: Product Overview and Timeline Content Comparison Comparison of Key Features Price Comparison Try Lexis+ Lexis ® and Lexis+ ® are two leading legal research platforms from LexisNexis ® that provide access...
The legal technology landscape is evolving rapidly in front of our eyes, creating a whole new vocabulary of AI-related terms and phrases . For those of us who aren’t product developers or software engineers, it’s helpful to define what these terms mean...
Updated November 20, 2023 Summary Legal Research Technology: A Background Price Comparison: LexisNexis vs. Google Scholar LexisNexis and Google Scholar Search Usability: Comparing Ease-of-Use Built-In Analytics and Features Why Free Case Search Isn't...