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Legal tech disruptors vLex and Fastcase merge to form world’s largest global law library

noreply@blogger.com (Staff) — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 14:38:00 +0000

Washington, DC and Miami, FL. April 4, 2023. – vLex and Fastcase, two of the largest, fastest-growing legal technology companies, announced today that they are merging to form the world’s largest law firm subscriber base with more than one billion legal documents from more than 100 countries. As part of the merger, Oakley Capital and Bain Capital Credit are investing in the combined business to expand its global reach and accelerate the company’s legal artificial intelligence (AI) lab, which develops AI tools that streamline research, tracking, writing, and filing documents for the legal industry.

“The legal profession has been a late adopter of technology, but lawyers are gaining more of an appetite for artificial intelligence tools in recent years,” said vLex CEO Lluís Faus. “Bringing these two highly successful businesses together will help democratize the law for legal professionals worldwide through a dynamic and robust platform that improves legal research accuracy, efficiency, and affordability.”

The new combined entity will be called vLex Group, and its products will retain the name of vLex in global markets and Fastcase in the U.S. The company, which has offices in the United States, Europe, the U.K., Asia, and Latin America, will combine management teams and invest in unified global products based on the complementary strengths of both firms. It will maintain headquarters offices in Washington, D.C., Miami, and Barcelona. JEGI CLARITY, a leading M&A advisory firm for the legal, media, marketing, information, and technology industries, represented Fastcase in this transaction.

Each company has been a disruptive innovator in highly consolidated markets for legal information and will offer unprecedented scale in legal tech, including the following:

The new company will reach the majority of lawyers in the U.S. (~1.1 million subscribers out of 1.3 million lawyers in the U.S.) in partnership with state bar associations and include legal materials from more than 100 countries around the world.
The combined library contains over one billion legal documents, including judicial opinions, statutes, regulations, court rules, docket sheets, briefs, pleadings, motions, authored treatises, and legal news articles.
vLex was named “Overall Legal Research Solution Provider of the Year” for its AI tools in the 2022 LegalTech Breakthrough Awards Program.
Fastcase has twice been named New Product of the Year by the American Association of Law Libraries.

“Our missions could not be more aligned, and by combining two of the world’s most successful legal technology disruptors, we are bringing much-needed innovation to an industry ready for a scaled alternative,” said Fastcase President Phil Rosenthal. “With both companies having more than 20 years of organic growth, the strategic support and financial backing of Oakley Capital and Bain Capital Credit will dramatically accelerate our work. Our goal is to be the most frequently used, comprehensive, and trustworthy resource for law firms of all sizes in any part of the world.”

Large Language Models (LLM) and Law

News of the merger comes when competing large language models, such as OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s Bard, create a more competitive market for generative AI.

“With the rapid proliferation of LLM models, we are in a new era where content is king,” said Fastcase CEO Ed Walters. “With the merger of vLex and Fastcase, nobody has a more extensive global law library than we do. This is the biggest legal data corpus ever assembled, including highly valuable structured data with industry-standard tags and analytics. The combined library is the crown jewel of LLMs and the ultimate training data set for legal AI.”

The companies are not newcomers to legal AI. vLex created one of the first AI assistants for legal research, called Vincent. It has long used an internal AI tool called Iceberg to generate structure in its own data and for law firms. Fastcase’s Docket Alarm product is one of the first legal tech companies to integrate OpenAI’s GPT-3.5, and both Fastcase and Docket Alarm use AI to create structure and tags in legal documents. The companies will use their combined financial strength to accelerate growth and to invest more in the frontiers of artificial intelligence in law.

About vLex

vLex is a global legal intelligence platform that provides legal professionals with access to the most extensive collection of legal and regulatory information worldwide, all on one award-winning and unique platform. The company utilizes cutting-edge technology, including artificial intelligence and data analytics, to help millions of users access the most relevant and accurate information. For more information about vLex, visit @vLex on Twitter or at www.vlex.com.

About Fastcase

Fastcase is a comprehensive legal intelligence company founded in 1999 and based in Washington, D.C. Partnering with the bar associations of all 50 states and the District of Columbia, Fastcase serves more than 1.1 million lawyers worldwide. The company provides an innovative research suite of primary law, dockets, treatises, legal blogs, analytics, workflow tools, and legal news. For more information about Fastcase’s legal tools, visit the company on Twitter at @Fastcase or visit www.fastcase.com.

About Oakley Capital

Oakley Capital is the partner of choice for entrepreneurs and management teams with the ambition to build successful, global businesses. With a diverse team of over 140 professionals across five locations including London, Munich, and Milan, the firm backs high-growth, mid-market companies across Europe. It has deep sector-expertise across Technology, Consumer, and Education and a track record of supporting businesses accelerating their growth with proven value creation strategies, including M&A, digitization, talent management, and internationalization. Its unique origination capabilities help unearth attractive investment opportunities yielding consistently strong returns for all stakeholders. To date, the firm has delivered gross realized returns of 4x MM and 67% IRR across all funds. In 2023, Oakley raised a record €2.85 billion for Oakley Capital Fund V, bringing their total AUM to €8 billion.

About Bain Capital Credit

Bain Capital Credit is a leading global credit specialist with approximately $42 billion in assets under management. Bain Capital Credit invests across the credit spectrum and in credit‐related strategies, including leveraged loans, high‐yield bonds, structured products, private middle market loans, bespoke capital solutions, distressed securities and assets, non‐performing loans, hard assets and equities. Our team of more than 95 investment professionals creates value through rigorous, independent analysis of thousands of corporate issuers around the world. In addition to credit, Bain Capital Credit invests across asset classes including private equity, public equity, venture capital and real estate, and leverages the firm’s shared platform to capture opportunities in strategic areas of focus. Bain Capital Credit's dedicated Private Credit Group focuses on providing complete financing solutions to businesses with EBITDA between $10 million and $150 million located in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Our dedicated global team affords us the ability to diligence the most complex situations and provide private capital to those companies.

Unparalleled Access to Delaware Court of Chancery with Docket Alarm

noreply@blogger.com (Staff) — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:53:00 +0000

We are thrilled to announce that Docket Alarm has expanded its coverage to include the Delaware Court of Chancery, making the platform even more indispensable for legal professionals.

As the go-to court for major business disputes and the incorporation capital of America, the Delaware Court of Chancery plays a crucial role in shaping the legal landscape. By adding this court to our platform, Docket Alarm provides an all-in-one solution.

Docket Alarm now offers:

Tracking: Receive new case alerts and stay on top of existing cases with filings delivered within two hours of being filed. Never miss a critical update in the Delaware Court of Chancery.
Search: Perform full-text searches comprehensively across all pleadings, motions, and orders going back to 2004, giving you instant access to the information you need.
Analytics: Gain insights on attorney representation, law firm activity, and litigation trends in the Delaware Court of Chancery.
API: Integrate the latest filings and case data directly into your law firm systems with our robust API.

Explore our complete coverage on our website.

Delaware Court of Chancery cases are included with any Docket Alarm subscription - sign up or upgrade today to get started.

For more information or assistance with your subscription, please contact our sales team at sales@docketalarm.com.

Docket Alarm Releases Powerful BI Tool for Motions in Federal Courts at ILTACon

noreply@blogger.com (Staff) — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 15:55:00 +0000

Collaboration with Judicata Technology Moves One Step Closer to Universal DMS

Washington, DC (August 18, 2022) – Docket Alarm by Fastcase today released a powerful new business intelligence tool for law firms and corporate legal departments. Dubbed simply as “Motions in Federal Courts,” the new feature creates a new search engine over specific motion types, as well as analytics for individual law firms, judges, and nature of suit codes. The company will launch and showcase the tool at the 2022 ILTACon conference in Washington, D.C. next week.

The new Motions in Federal Courts search empowers lawyers to microtarget specific types of motions and to create customized analytics. This enables Docket Alarm users to dive into both their own firm’s litigation history — as well as opposing law firms — providing the market’s most precise and powerful tool for internal and external business intelligence.

The new feature uses Judicata technology to categorize millions of motions from almost 5 million cases by type, stage, nature of suit, law firm, state, judge, and much more. Lawyers can create precise motion searches for the strategy of opposing counsel, to analyze the effectiveness of their own strategy, or to find precise templates for new motions, targeted to specific judges and courts. Fastcase acquired Judicata’s technology stack and team in 2020.

“The mission of Judicata was to map the legal genome,” said Ed Walters, CEO of Fastcase. “Judicata used that technology to create quantum leaps in legal research, but the technology also has amazing applications in the vast Docket Alarm database as well. The Motions in Federal Courts search engine is one of the early fruits of that collaboration. MFC is a BFD.”

“If you combined the power of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the power of law firm analytics, it would look a lot like Docket Alarm’s Motions in Federal Courts,” said Michael Sander, Docket Alarm founder and VP of Fastcase Analytics.

Docket Alarm’s library of Motions in Federal Courts is vast, covering the federal courts of all 50 states. It tags more than 3 million briefs, 2.5 million motions, and 6.6 million court orders. All of the tags use universal, open-source standards from the SALI LMSS 2.0, which means firms and corporate legal departments can export documents with APIs that link right into their SALI-compliant document management systems, databases, KM systems, or other legal tech products.

Corporate legal departments can also compare the motions practice of the top 33,000 litigation firms in America, tagged by Judicata and Docket Alarm.

“This goes beyond search and analytics,” said Sander. “The ability to drill down to see how any firm – including your own – handles motions in specific courts is actionable business intelligence. This isn’t for niche practice areas or a small number of courts. This new tool covers all practice areas in all federal courts. Once you can see the motions, it’s hard to imagine litigating blind without them.”

“Whether cleaning up your own internal document-management and experience-management systems, adding lateral hire data, or building out competitive RFPs with analytics of competing firms — tracking appearances before judges, and across case types, jurisdictions, and opponents naturally extends Docket Alarm’s vision: Make analytics a core part of practice and business,” added Damien Riehl, Fastcase VP of Workflow Litigation, who is also part of the leadership team of the SALI Alliance.

“We’re collecting and enhancing the vital information embedded in dockets, and making it easily consumable wherever attorneys are on mobile, the web, or in their firm databases via API” said Sander. “The continued drive to be at the center of litigation dockets — alerting, document delivery, research, analytics, calendaring — is at the core of every product innovation, powered by the Judicata natural language parsing technology.”

“It’s a very exciting time at Fastcase,” said Walters. “To watch Fastcase Chief Product Officer Nina Jack working with Itai Gurari and Ben Pedrick of Judicata, deploying SALI tags with Damien Riehl, to refine and tag the comprehensive Docket Alarm database, is truly amazing. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and we’re just getting started,” he added. “Federal Motions Practice is an important step towards a Universal Document Management System, with highly tagged documents from state and federal courts as well as the full legal research library of judicial opinions, statutes, regulations, court rules, and treatises. Watch this space.”

For more information, visit https://www.docketalarm.com/analytics/FederalCourts/ or contact sales@docketalarm.com. Attendees at ILTACon can see an exclusive preview and learn more about the new features by visiting the Fastcase-Docket Alarm team at Booth #615 in the exhibit hall.

About Docket Alarm

Docket Alarm is a national leader in docket research and legal analytics. Docket Alarm leverages a library of hundreds of millions of litigation records, as well as unique machine learning and natural language processing tools. The Docket Alarm API gives firms and companies the ability to leverage a giant database of PACER cases, alerting capabilities, and analysis in bulk. Docket Alarm was acquired by Fastcase in January 2018, and continues to be a disruptor in the legal analytics market. Follow Docket Alarm on Twitter @DocketAlarm.

Docket Alarm’s expansive coverage includes state court dockets across 34 states, administrative courts and the entire federal court system via PACER. Docket Alarm also incorporates analytics in the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”). The latest additions and enhancements of features include “Deadline Display” in its Litigation Hub, Federal Appellate Analytics, coverage of every U.S. patent application and prosecution history from the Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR) system and all of the underlying documents, a calendaring feature powered by CalendarRules, Clio integrations, and extending analytics platforms through Judicata.

About Fastcase

Fastcase is a comprehensive legal intelligence company, founded in 1999 and based in Washington, D.C. Partnering with the bar associations of almost every state and the District of Columbia, Fastcase serves more than 1.2 million lawyers from around the world. The company provides an innovative research suite of primary law, dockets, treatises, legal blogs, analytics, workflow tools, and legal news. For more information about Fastcase’s smarter legal tools, visit the company on Twitter at @Fastcase or visit www.fastcase.com.

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Docket Alarm for eDiscovery

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 19:51:00 +0000

eDiscovery is a crucial part of modern court cases. Today’s correspondence, documents, and other pieces of evidence are often stored in electronic formats, as our culture continues to shift digital.

Docket Alarm supports eDiscovery vendors that are looking for law firm and attorney leads with upcoming eDiscovery deadlines. Let’s walk through what eDiscovery is and how Docket Alarm helps eDiscovery vendors.

What is eDiscovery?

eDiscovery, or electronic discovery, is the process of uncovering or collecting electronically stored information (ESI) for litigation to support court cases and respond to requests in lawsuits or investigations. ESI may include:

Emails
Electronic documents
Databases
Audio files
Videos
Social media content
Website content
And more

eDiscovery essentially involves any information relevant to a case that is in an electronic format.

What is an eDiscovery vendor?

eDiscovery vendors are third parties that help with the eDiscovery process, including processing, preparing, or storing ESI. Vendors help with eDiscovery procedures and consultants may also advise law firms or attorneys on the best approach to eDiscovery projects. Other companies provide eDiscovery software which helps with the search process, whether using keywords or automated search and filtering tools to find relevant information.

What is Docket Alarm?

Docket Alarm helps legal professionals search through millions of lawsuits and cases and analyze legal outcomes. Attorneys can search through court records by title, case number, or issue, and within federal, state, or specialty courts.

How Docket Alarm works for eDiscovery vendors

Docket Alarm now helps eDiscovery vendors with a lead generation tool. Vendors can search and track documents and set up alerts. Here are key steps in the process:

Search: Vendors can look through any firm or company’s eDiscovery timelines using Docket Alarm.
Outreach: Browse millions of cases and view info like eDiscovery due dates and detailed contact information for firms and lawyers.
Alerts: Vendors can set up alerts on specific law firms or clients and track cases that have eDiscovery coming up.

Docket Alarm makes it easier for eDiscovery vendors to find clients to help them through the discovery process. With automated alerts and deadline tracking, companies will never miss an opportunity to generate more leads. Learn more by signing up for Docket Alarm today!

Docket Alarm's New Integration with Courtroom Insight

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 13:07:00 +0000

Docket Alarm is excited to announce a new integration with Courtroom Insight, a litigation knowledge management solution. The integration is set to improve the way the legal publishing world works together on connecting and sharing data to serve clients with better access to facts and research. Now, Courtroom Insight (CRI) users benefit from Docket Alarm's database of over half a billion documents when browsing expert witness and judicial profiles.

What is Courtroom Insight?

Courtroom Insight helps firms manage litigation knowledge and is used by Am Law 200 law firms so they can combine information about private firms with other important data. Firms can gather and analyze the information they need for cases about judges, arbitrators, expert witnesses, and attorneys, which help them strengthen their knowledge about the system. The platform allows attorneys to find the best expert witnesses out there, select the right arbitrator, and evaluate judges.

What is Docket Alarm?

Docket Alarm helps lawyers search for lawsuits and cases from anywhere within any court system. Access to previous arguments and data helps firms improve how they approach each of their cases. Docket Alarm has over 500 million legal records stored in its database, and over 300,000 new documents and dockets are added every day. The database covers information about court litigation in 33 states. Users can even set up alerts to get new court activity updates, like when a new lawsuit is filed against something matching their search.

Docket Alarm is one of Fastcase’s smart legal software solutions that help law professionals can work more efficiently.

How the new integration will work

Fastcase’s Docket Alarm will now integrate with Courtroom Insight to enrich the research experience for those using the CRI platform.

The result of this partnership is better data outcomes for legal professionals. Docket Alarm's content will be separated by judge and expert witness and then integrated into Courtroom Insight. When searching for expert witnesses and judges within Courtroom Insight, users will find direct links to Docket Alarm entries that will enrich their research and litigation practice.

If you're not already a Courtroom Insight subscriber, sign up for an account here. Not convinced? Their platform combines internal information (who has worked with whom, private performance reviews, internal documents) with critical external data including integrated content from Docket Alarm and other providers.

Learn more about the partnership between Docket Alarm and Courtroom Insight here.

How to Find a Case When There Is No Good Case Type Field

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 14:29:00 +0000

Docket Alarm helps attorneys like you find the legal information you need, faster. Only with more knowledge about cases and lawsuits can you analyze outcomes for a true competitive advantage for your practice.

Our Founder and Managing Director Michael Sander is delivering search tips to help you optimize your search even more using Docket Alarm. Here’s some helpful info about how to search for a case by its subject matter using the tool.

Search Tip: Find a case of a particular type even when there is no good case type field

Sometimes you want to search for a case by its subject matter, but there is no good case "type" or "nature of suit" field that captures this. Examples of specific subjects may include, Legal Malpractice, Trade Secret, and other lawsuits based on a specific statute. Normally, you would search with the

type

nos

field, but in these cases, there isn't enough detail in the case type field to really help you find what you're looking for. Enter the

documenttext

search field. This field will find dockets that have documents that mention a particular word. So for example searching

documenttext:("legal malpractice")

will find all dockets that have documents that mention this phrase. This is a decently good way to find cases that have issues that are only mentioned in underlying documents.

You can also combine the two forms of searching. So, if you wanted to really cover all your bases with legal malpractice, for example, you would search for:

documenttext:("legal malpractice") or type:(legal w/2 malpractice)

It’s easier than ever to make Docket Alarm work the way you really need it. With this simple hack, you can search for specific case types to narrow your results and get answers faster. Stay tuned for more Docket Alarm legal research search tips!

New Docket Alarm Enhance Feature Empowers Use of Litigation Data Feeds

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 14:00:00 +0000

Litigation data feeds can often be overwhelming for law firms. Valuable time is taken to manually sift through cases, often, with no access to underlying sources or materials. Litigation feeds should be easier to manage and read, with links to complaints and docket sheets that can lead to actionable insights a firm can use to better serve their clients.

With this goal in mind, Docket Alarm built a solution that combines the power of an email processing system with an adaptable litigation docket research tool. Docket Alarm Enhance will take your litigation reports and add live links to dockets and complaints, additional columns on parties, judges, firms, case status, and more. It will also generate a beautiful email that can then be forwarded to attorneys.

There are two easy ways to get started enhancing your reports:

Use the Docket Alarm Enhance dashboard

Simply go to the Docket Alarm Enhance dashboard (at https://www.docketalarm.com/enhance/) to drop your sheet into the uploader. Choose the type of document you are trying to enhance, whether that be a list of cases, a list of parties, or a one-off case dinger. Once you've chosen your settings, in just a few clicks, the enhanced document will be returned back to you.

Docket Alarm Enhance Dashboard
Forward your spreadsheet to Docket Alarm

On the dashboard, you'll see an email address. Forward the report to the email address and you'll receive clean, organized data that is prepped to be easily readable by attorneys and analysts. It acts as a seamless addition to your workflow, providing the opportunity to generate greater insights from litigation reports.

You can further automate Docket Alarm Enhance by setting up an auto-forwarding rule in your email, particularly helpful when you want to Enhance reports that typically arrive by email.

We have several plans for firms of any size. Docket Alarm Enhance is available to all users with a Docket Alarm account. 5/rows per day are included with your Docket Alarm subscription. If you have more data to enhance, upgrade to the Grow (20 rows/day) or Enterprise (500 rows/day).

If you're a larger firm who needs more rows, Docket Alarm can handle that. We can process reports with many thousands of rows. For larger needs, Docket Alarm can provide a direct API that connects to most data sources.

Ready to get started with Docket Alarm's newest feature? Visit https://www.docketalarm.com/enhance/. You can also read the press release here.

Docket Alarm Reaches New Milestone: Half a Billion Documents Now Available in Database

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 21:36:00 +0000

In a record-breaking expansion to 500,000,000 legal documents in their database, Docket Alarm offers law firms unique competitive advantage opportunities.

Docket Alarm has proven itself to be a leader in litigation analytics and data-based judicial profiles. Today we are excited to announce that they have reached a milestone of making half a billion legal documents available for litigators and subscribers gathering legal analytics and insights. These documents include briefs motions, complaints, and other docket items that litigators want at their fingertips.

“Content is king,’” said Docket Alarm Founder and Managing Director Michael Sander. “This vast store of 500 million litigation records is making Docket Alarm a favorite tool among demanding litigators, because Docket Alarm has content that is simply unavailable on other platforms.”

Law firms and legal researchers that use Docket Alarm’s matchless database can search millions of lawsuits, track your cases on any device, and analyze outcomes for competitive advantage. Access to these legal documents, in conjunction with Docket Alarm’s revolutionary Analytics Workbench tool and the Fastcase legal research library, creates an unparalleled database for litigators, law firm “makers”, librarians, and litigation support professionals in the legal industry to build their own bespoke litigation analytics across any court, practice area, or litigation event.

Over the last 30 months, Docket Alarm doubled the number of documents it makes available to subscribers and continues to grow with strong momentum. Docket Alarm’s expansive coverage includes state courts across 33 states, administrative courts and the entire federal court system via PACER. Users with flat rate accounts are not charged fees to view or download documents from PACER if those documents are already in the Docket Alarm database. Docket Alarm also incorporates analytics in the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”). The latest additions and enhancements of features include “Deadline Display” in its Litigation Hub, Federal Appellate Analytics, coverage of every U.S. patent application and prosecution history from the Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR) system and all of the underlying documents, a calendaring feature powered by CalendarRules, Clio integrations, and extending analytics platforms thru Judicata.

The revolutionary Analytics Workbench tool allows users to generate litigation analytics across the entire 500 million record dataset that includes all case types in state courts, federal courts, administrative courts, and other jurisdictions in the Docket Alarm system. Users can capture and analyze legal events that remain hidden in traditional offerings such as revealing trends about discovery motions, motions in limine, and scheduling and pre-trial conferences, at both the state and federal level that would be impossible for traditional analytics.

In conjunction with data analytics and docket updates from Docket Alarm, legal researchers can extend their capabilities in Fastcase with the opportunity to purchase access to exclusive integrated products, such as Full Court Press publications, and artificial intelligence tools within the AI Sandbox, plus access to licensed secondary materials through James Publishing and Wolters Kluwer/Aspen/CCH.

For more information or to start your free trial and get searching, visit www.docketalarm.com.

Support your firm's unique strategy with one-click analytics from Docket Alarm

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 00:45:00 +0000

Analytics Just Got Easier

One-click analytics have made it easier than ever to quickly create analytics for any Firm, Judge, Attorney, or Party.

Find detailed analytics on those three categories with just a few clicks. These analytics will provide insight to support your firm’s unique strategy and business development. The analytics below were generated by one click.

Schedule a demo with the Docket Alarm team to learn more about how the Analytics Workbench can meet your needs!

New Features: Track and organize your cases so you can focus on litigation.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:20:00 +0000

With Docket Alarm, you can search millions of lawsuits, track cases on any device, keep track of deadlines, and analyze outcomes for competitive advantage.

Now, when tracking a search on Docket Alarm, you can limit the results in email alerts to only recently filed dockets or documents. Docket Alarm is constantly back-filling the historical record of older cases. You now have an option to filter out these older cases (see image below).

Ready to get started? Users can now quickly track all of their cases by attorney/firm, docket number, or party. Easily start tracking dozens of cases in seconds. You can also get new case alerts for all of your clients by entering your firm’s name. Find these three options in the dashboard side bar!

Interested in learning more about Docket Alarm? Click here to schedule a demo with our team.

Never miss a deadline again.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 13:14:00 +0000

Synchronize court deadlines with your team's Outlook calendars.

Docket Alarm’s calendar feature automatically extracts deadlines from judge’s orders making it easy for you to add them to multiple calendars in 1-click. This feature combines the most state-of-the-art docket research platform with a robust set of court rules to calculate any deadline. Easily calculate upcoming deadlines based on scheduling orders and local court rules, including judge specific court rules, through Docket Alarm’s partnership with Calendar Rules. Calendar Rules maintains a comprehensive rule set, keeps track of holidays, and distributes reminders to attorneys. Never miss a deadline again.

Calendaring completes the comprehensive collection of features available on the Docket Alarm platform:

Track cases with lightning-fast updates, whether or not your firm has made a notice of appearance;

Search through entire case records to find documents in your own or related cases;

Research court rules and scheduling orders, and how individual judges have applied them in the past, quickly find sample documents;

Calendar deadlines quickly, by simply selecting a docket entry, and synching it with all attorneys on the case.

The calendaring solution is powered by CalendarRules and by docket data pulled from over 400 million records in Docket Alarm’s database. Interested in learning more about Docket Alarm? Click here to schedule a demo with our team.

More Courts & More API Coverage in Docket Alarm

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 16:11:00 +0000

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Industry-leading coverage to support the most comprehensive research

In June, Docket Alarm met an exciting milestone: over 400 million dockets and over 900 counties are now included in Docket Alarm's coverage, in addition to federal courts and agencies.

Today, we're proud to announce Docket Alarm has expanded to include the courts listed below. And make sure to continue reading to learn about yet another innovation the Docket Alarm team has been working on.

Ohio State, Court of Claims is a court of limited jurisdiction and hears claims including those against the state of Ohio and appeals made by the Ohio Attorney General.

Beautiful Napa County, California is the 22nd county we've added to Docket Alarm's California county coverage, along with Yuba County, California (located near Sacramento) bringing us to 23 California counties covered in Docket Alarm.

We've added six Massachusetts state courts to Docket Alarm, each with a specific purpose.

Massachusetts State, Boston Municipal Court - handles both criminal and civil matters for the City of Boston. DA's coverage includes all eight divisions: BMC Brighton, BMC Central, BMC Charlestown, BMC Dorchester, BMC East Boston, BMC Roxbury, BMC South Boston, BMC West Roxbury Division
Massachusetts State, District Court – covers all 61 districts of MA.
Massachusetts State, Housing Court – overs all housing courts including Central, Eastern, Metro South, Northeast, Southeast, Western.
Massachusetts State, Land Court – covers all cases involved real property for all of MA.
Massachusetts State, Probate and Family Court – the court has 14 divisions and covers all family-related and probate matters.
Massachusetts State, Superior Court – this court is the trial court of general jurisdiction for all of MA. With 20 different courthouses spread out, this court covers all of MA.

District of Columbia, Superior Courts — this court is the trial court of general jurisdiction for DC. DC Superior Court joins DC Court of Appeals, which launched in 2019.

Click here for an in-depth look at Docket Alarm's coverage.

Docket Alarm State and Federal Court Bulk Download

Another important update from Docket Alarm: Now in conjunction with Docket Alarm's API, Docket Alarm API partners can use our new open source tool available for easy bulk downloads! Use the tool to quickly consume a large number of cases and pull down all data and documents for those cases. In fact, this tool is already being successfully used by a major non-profit to bring speed and accuracy to data collection for a large-scale legal information project. More details to come in the fall on this exciting project! This 1-click signup will register you for updates and the Docket Alarm team will reach out with more information on the new open source tool.

Interested in signing up for Docket Alarm, or learning more about Docket Alarm API? Our team would love to help you get started, click here to request a demo.

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Docket Alarm has reached a huge milestone: 400 Million Dockets

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 14:58:00 +0000

In early June, Docket Alarm reached a milestone of making more than 400 million legal dockets and documents available for litigators and subscribers gathering legal analytics and insights. These documents include briefs motions, complaints, and other docket items that litigators want at their fingertips.“Today, more than ever, we all see the integral role that law plays in our society,” said Docket Alarm Founder and Managing Director Michael Sander. “Transparency and easy access to legal materials is a prerequisite to a well-functioning legal system. I am grateful and humbled to be able to play a part in bringing more sunlight to our justice system.”In the past year, Docket Alarm expanded its coverage in 23 state courts, including Ohio, Missouri, and Arkansas – and there’s more coming soon. In addition to coverage of administrative courts and the entire federal court system via PACER, Docket Alarm also incorporates analytics in the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”).Interested in learning more about Docket Alarm? Click here to schedule a time for our team to reach out and answer any questions.

It's easier than ever for attorneys to get work done with new features in Docket Alarm

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 15:41:00 +0000

Docket Alarm is proud to launch a feature-packed website refresh, making it easier than ever for attorneys to get work done and find new business.

Find More Business

It's now easier than ever to get notifications when your clients get sued. Just type in your firm's name, and we'll pull in your client list and send you new lawsuit alerts on a regular basis.

Higher Quality Research

A more unified search bar experience makes it easier than ever to find all relevant dockets, slip-opinions, motions, and exhibits, that you need to support your client.

Court Opinion Digests

Get slip opinions from the courts you care about as soon as they are published.

Do you have any questions about Docket Alarm? Click here to schedule time with our team to get your personalized walkthrough. We're excited to further discuss these updates!

Free Docket Alarm Accounts for Pro Bono Attorneys During COVID-19

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 18:17:00 +0000

Hi Friends,

As our nation deals with this national crisis, I know that many law firms and individual lawyers are stepping up their pro bono activities to help ease the stress on providing legal services and on the entire legal system generally.

At Docket Alarm, we want to do our part, however small. For at least the next three months, and as long as this crisis continues, we will be providing free access to attorneys that are working on pro bono matters and would find the service useful.

If you're unfamiliar with Docket Alarm's database of motions, briefs, and dockets, and you're unsure if it can be helpful, please reach out to questions@docketalarm.com for an introduction. We will also be hosting webinars Friday at 1PM.

Please stay safe during this crisis.

Best Regards,

Michael Sander
Founder and Managing Director
Docket Alarm

Note: although Docket Alarm can provide its services for free, we will still need to pass through any government document fees (e.g., PACER fees) that are incurred through Docket Alarm.

Docket Alarm Adds U.S. Patent Application Prosecution History

noreply@blogger.com (Zuri B.) — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 13:55:00 +0000

Docket Alarm Expands Coverage With Data From PAIR

Docket Alarm has expanded its coverage to U.S. Patent Application prosecution history from the Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR) system and all of the underlying documents.

The Docket Alarm team will be showcasing the PAIR addition at the upcoming AIPLA 2019 Annual Meeting on October 24-26^th in Washington, D.C.

“If a patent gets enforced, the action usually takes place in U.S. District Courts or the I.T.C. and invalidity challenges often come before the PTAB, but it all starts at the USPTO,” says Docket Alarm Founder and Managing Director Michael Sander. “Docket Alarm now offers attorneys the full lifecycle of a patent, starting with its prosecution history on PAIR, through enforcement, validity challenges, and appeals. Patent attorneys and litigators now have all the tools they need in one place.”

For the first time, Docket Alarm now allows patent professionals to: (1) mine the full record of the USPTO to find past arguments and admissions made by applicants or examiners, helping them craft better arguments and win more cases; (2) use legal analytics to build a bigger book of business, either by finding companies with growing portfolios or by showcasing your own firm’s work; (3) stay on top of an adversary or client’s portfolio, with fast-tracking of new prosecution activity.

Thousands of attorneys already use Docket Alarm to find new clients, win business and build a better case. The platform is now also available for U.S. Patent Application prosecution histories:

Track: Track the status of a patent application and receive up to hourly notifications of each office action, response, allowance, and other prosecution events

Search: Search the entire record of prosecution history, including within documents on Public PAIR. Filter by inventor, assignee, examiner, or Boolean search to find arguments

Analytics: Build customized analytics in the USPTO and generate statistics on time to allowance, allowance rate, and much more across a wide variety of filters.

For a free trial and more information, visit www.docketalarm.com or connect with the Docket Alarm team at the AIPLA 2019 Annual Meeting.

Docket Alarm Announces New Clio Integrations

noreply@blogger.com (Zuri B.) — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 18:51:00 +0000

Platform Allows Tracking and Management of Cases in Multiple Courts from Clio

Docket Alarm has teamed up with Clio’s practice management software to create a seamless process for attorneys to track and manage their cases.

The timing couldn’t be better: With the Clio Cloud Conference 2019 on legal technology coming to San Diego on October 21 and 22, the Docket Alarm integration showcases Clio’s app marketplace, enabled by a robust API integration with services such as Fastcase legal research and Docket Alarm docket tracking and research tools.

The new integration allows Clio users to synchronize their document library with the court, via Docket Alarm's direct court connection. Underlying filings as well as the docket sheet itself are automatically uploaded with metadata to the Clio user's case folder. The filings are named in a user-friendly way and tagged with the associated matter, making them easy to find within Clio. The integration will save countless hours for attorneys and paralegals downloading court filings from a court website and uploading them to Clio.

“Clio has been partnering with Fastcase and Docket Alarm for years, and we have always been impressed by the value they have added for Clio customers. Integrations like Docket Alarm's will give firms using these services together an advantage in speed and knowledge management that lawyers have never possessed before,” said Jack Newton, co-founder and CEO of Clio. “We’re thrilled to offer this integration to our customers.”

“Clio is the operating system for modern law firms,” said Fastcase CEO Ed Walters. “With Fastcase legal research, Docket Alarm’s docket tracking and analytics, and now NextChapter’s bankruptcy form and workflow business, Fastcase is becoming the productivity suite for Clio-powered law firms.”

NextChapter by Fastcase, a bankruptcy solution and the newest member of the Fastcase family, will also be introducing Clio integration within their platform at the conference.

Docket Alarm and NextChapter will showcase these innovations Oct. 21-22 at the Clio Cloud Conference 2019 in San Diego. To learn more about the integration, along with all of our other features, email us at support@docketalarm.com.

New Calendaring Solution Added to Docket Alarm Platform

noreply@blogger.com (Zuri B.) — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:37:00 +0000

Docket Alarm is excited to announce an innovative new calendaring feature that binds the work of docketing professionals more closely to attorneys. This feature will be showcased during the National Docketing Association’s 7th Annual Conference this September 22-24 in Denver, CO.

The calendaring feature combines the most state of the art docket research platform with a robust set of court rules to calculate any deadline:

Track cases with lightning-fast updates, whether or not your firm has made a notice of appearance;
Search through entire case records to find documents in your own or related cases;
Research court rules and scheduling orders, and how individual judges have applied them in the past, quickly find sample documents;
Calendar deadlines quickly, by simply selecting a docket entry, and synching it with all attorneys on the case.

“Missing a court deadline is the number one way law firms end up in malpractice suits,” said Docket Alarm Founder and Managing Director Michael Sander. “Now, docket professionals will be able to access court rules directly on the complete docket, reducing errors and increasing visibility of upcoming deadlines across the litigation team.”

Both docketing and the calendaring feature are combined on one platform thereby increasing the ease of use, reducing the amount of money and time spent on training and eliminating any decentralized system of docketing and calendaring. The calendaring feature is powered by CalendarRules and by docket data pulled from over 300 million records in Docket Alarm’s database.

To learn more about how to use calendaring feature, along with all of our other features, email us at sales@docketalarm.com.

Docket Alarm Enhances Litigation Hub with Deadline Display

noreply@blogger.com (Zuri B.) — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:08:00 +0000

New Feature Aids Litigation by Exporting and Extracting Deadlines from Dockets

Washington, DC (March 14, 2019) – Docket Alarm by Fastcase, a leader in litigation analytics and docket research, today debuted “deadline display” – a new docket feature that extracts and exports deadlines from dockets. Docket Alarm now identifies deadlines from dockets and automatically displays them when users view docket sheets. Beginning today, the deadline display feature is included as a complimentary addition for all Docket Alarm users.

Deadlines are now integrated directly into the award-winning Docket Alarm litigation management suite. Dates are extracted directly from docket sheets as well as the underlying documents, making it easier for litigators to see upcoming events. Deadlines are also searchable – users can find cases with a specified type of deadline. For example, a user can search for every upcoming construction claim hearing in a court, get a list of a firm’s deadlines, and find upcoming motion hearings before a judge. Litigators and litigation support companies will find this feature beneficial for strategy and finding new business.

Thousands of litigators and law firm litigation support specialists at AmLaw 250 firms across the U.S. already rely on Docket Alarm to manage timelines, cases, run custom analytics, and conduct research. Now, users can incorporate the Deadline Display feature to manage their calendar and keep track of important deadlines. Deadline display helps users not only save time, but plan for the future. In two clicks, users can generate premade Outlook or Google Calendar events with all pertinent information.

“When I was a litigator, reading long scheduling orders to find upcoming deadlines was a tedious task, but it no longer needs to be,” said Docket Alarm Founder and Managing Director Michael Sander. “Our deadline display extracts upcoming deadlines for every case, and puts them into an organized table format that syncs with Outlook. This deadline display feature will be valuable for our users and represents another way Docket Alarm is consolidating litigation tools and functions into one powerful platform.”

Docket Alarm continues to be a disruptor in the legal marketplace. Since being acquired by Fastcase in 2018, the company has expanded its coverage to 17 state courts and more than 250 million legal documents. It recently extended its coverage with the addition of four county courts: Bexar County in Texas, Fulton County in Georgia, and San Francisco and Ventura Counties in California. In addition to coverage of administrative courts and the entire federal court system via PACER, Docket Alarm also incorporates analytics in the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”).

Judges at New York Legalweek 2019 recently recognized Docket Alarm with the prestigious national Product Innovation Award. Docket Alarm’s Analytics Workbench has created a new category in legal analytics. The Analytics Workbench empowers lawyers, librarians and other law firm “makers” to create their own reports across Docket Alarm’s entire 250 million record (and growing) dataset. Users can capture and analyze legal events that remain hidden in traditional offerings – such as revealing trends about discovery motions, motions in limine, scheduling and pre-trial conferences, at both the state and federal level, that would be impossible for traditional, read-only analytics.

Docket Alarm is a research database that lives alongside Fastcase, enhancing the research experience. Its unparalleled database allows users to search millions of lawsuits, track cases on any device, and analyze outcomes for competitive advantage. Litigators, law firm “makers,” librarians, and litigation support professionals now have access to an unrivaled database to build their own bespoke litigation analytics across any court, practice area, or litigation event. Accessing Docket Alarm’s database and the Analytics Workbench tool in conjunction with the Fastcase legal research library, which includes exclusive integrated products such as such as Full Court Press publications, artificial intelligence tools within the AI Sandbox, and access to licensed secondary materials through James Publishing and Wolters Kluwer/Aspen/CCH, affords legal researchers with extended capabilities and more access to legal data for creating custom analytics.

Docket Alarm continues to grow in popularity among today’s law firms, with a growing number of AmLaw 250 firms using Docket Alarm for litigation management and legal analytics. For a free trial and more information, visit www.docketalarm.com or connect with the Docket Alarm team attending the PTAB Bar Association Annual Conference on March 15 and 16 in Washington, DC.

About Docket Alarm

About Fastcase

As the smarter alternative for legal research, Fastcase democratizes the law, making it more accessible to more people. Using patented software that combines the best of legal research with the best of Web search, Fastcase helps busy users sift through the clutter, ranking the best cases first and enabling the re-sorting of results to find answers fast. Founded in 1999, Fastcase has more than 900,000 subscribers from around the world. Fastcase is an American company based in Washington, D.C. For more information, follow Fastcase on Twitter at @Fastcase, or visit www.fastcase.com.

Docket Alarm’s “Analytics Workbench” Pioneers Customizable Legal Analytics for All Cases, All Practice Areas

noreply@blogger.com (Zuri B.) — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 14:35:00 +0000

A New Category of Tools for the Growing Class of “Makers” in U.S. Law Firms

Washington, DC (July 5, 2018) – Docket Alarm by Fastcase, a leader in litigation analytics and data-based judicial profiles, has released the Analytics Workbench, a new category of legal analytics tools. The Analytics Workbench allows attorneys, librarians, litigation support professionals, and “makers” within a law firm to build their own bespoke litigation analytics across any court, practice area, or litigation event.

Legal analytics have been available to law firms for some time, but they have been limited to only those courts and practice areas that legal analytics companies have explicitly supported. For example, Docket Alarm’s analytics in the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) have been a boon to intellectual property litigators but did not serve legal professionals in other practice areas or courts. Law firms have been asking for analytics tools that target a broader range of practice areas, especially in state courts.

“Existing legal analytics are already filling a need,” said Docket Alarm Founder and Managing Director Michael Sander. “But they are currently available only in a few practice areas, and even in those areas that are covered, law firms have been asking for more customization.”

Now, with Docket Alarm’s revolutionary Analytics Workbench tool, users can build litigation analytics across all case types in state courts, federal courts, administrative courts, and other jurisdictions in the Docket Alarm system. In addition to expanded analytics court coverage, the Analytics Workbench allows legal professionals to dig deeper. Users can capture and analyze legal events that remain hidden in traditional offerings. For example, the Analytics Workbench can uncover trends about discovery motions, motions in limine, and scheduling and pre-trial conferences, at both the state and federal level that would be impossible for traditional analytics.

To provide analytics on such a broad variety of cases, the Analytics Workbench provides tools for firms to easily build custom rules to analyze a large number of cases across any court or case type. With minimal effort, legal professionals can tag litigation events based on their own rules. They can quickly review these tags assuring an acceptable level of quality. The Analytics Workbench then builds a beautiful interface to visualize the litigation events in aggregate, and allows users to filter or pivot the data as desired. Users can also easily share their results with others in the firm, or publicly if so desired.

The Analytics Workbench provides a new approach to litigation analytics, allowing a new world of multidimensional insights available for every practice area firm-wide.

Docket Alarm has capitalized on a new trend in law firms, digital “makers” who are coding new apps, creating new workflow solutions, and advancing operational excellence in legal services. “The legal operations movement has created a new class of legal ‘intrapreneurs,’” said Sander. “The Analytics Workbench allows a firm to create their own private custom insights for their clients across all litigation practice areas.”

How to Take a Look

The Analytics Workbench will be publicly unveiled at the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual Meeting July 14-17, 2018 in Baltimore. If you are going to AALL and would like to see a demo of Analytics Workbench, go to www.fastcase.com/create and choose a date and time. Media, including bloggers, are invited to attend the media showcase Sunday July 15th in the exhibit area from 4:30pm-5:30pm.

If you are not attending AALL and would like a look, contact us at questions@docketalarm.com to schedule a demo.

A Larger Strategy at Fastcase

The Docket Alarm Analytics Workbench service adds to Fastcase’s growing list of tools for digital makers, including the Fastcase 7 legal research platform, its industry-leading API tools, Cloud Linking, and its AI Sandbox tool, a development environment in which leading firms are creating their own tools using artificial intelligence.

“For the first time, law firms can leverage data and sophisticated tools to give smarter, more strategic advice to clients,” said Ed Walters, Fastcase CEO. “The Analytics Workbench has created a whole new category of custom-made analytics. Everyone should use analytics tools to understand their practice. But law firms who use tools like the Workbench and AI Sandbox can give unique, differentiated insights.” “It’s an incredibly exciting time to be working at the frontiers of legal tech,” Sander added.

About Docket Alarm

About Fastcase

As the smarter alternative for legal research, Fastcase democratizes the law, making it more accessible to more people. Using patented software that combines the best of legal research with the best of Web search, Fastcase helps busy users sift through the clutter, ranking the best cases first and enabling the re-sorting of results to find answers fast. Founded in 1999, Fastcase has more than 800,000 subscribers from around the world. Fastcase is an American company based in Washington, D.C. For more information, follow Fastcase on Twitter at @Fastcase, or visit www.fastcase.com.

Integrations Between Fastcase and Docket Alarm

noreply@blogger.com (Zuri B.) — Wed, 23 May 2018 20:10:00 +0000

Now you can seamlessly move from court dockets, briefs, and pleadings that cite case law to view the case in Fastcase without a separate login. These are public links so you can immediately share the cited cases with courts, clients, paralegals, or anyone else.

On the left hand column of the document view screen, click on the ribbon icon to see cases organized by year and to link to the case text within Fastcase. To generate a table of authorities, click on the orange icon next to the number of cited cases found.

This is the first of many integrations between Docket Alarm and Fastcase. Visit www.docketalarm.com/welcome/fastcaseintergtation for all the latest updates on new features.

Leverage Your Research History with Docket Alarm Search History

noreply@blogger.com (Tara Klamrowski) — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:00:00 +0000

Docket Alarm is excited to announce the release of visual search history, allowing you to easily track and browse your past research activity. Having search history at your fingertips means you never have to waste time reconstructing a previous search or digging up a document you previously found. If you find a great case or formulate a good search string, it will be automatically saved in your history log.

Search History on Docket Alarm

Picking up on a query from a prior session is easy— scroll through the entries in your search history log and select a query with a single click to instantly re-run the search or access a previously viewed docket or document. To look for particular words or phrases in your past search queries, run a search of your history using natural language or terms and connectors.

Another way to review your past research is with the visual calendar view, allowing you to review your search history by date. To find your search history on a specific day, simply type in the corresponding date or switch to the calendar view in your search history log and select a day. You will see all of the search strings you entered and all of the documents you viewed on that date. This is helpful not only with finding relevant research queries around the occurrence of particular events, but also with retracing and mapping the progression of your research over time.

Calendar View on Docket Alarm’s Search History Viewer

In addition to tracking your search history on specific dates, Docket Alarm also tracks your search history in relation to a particular matter, making it easy to review all related and relevant search queries and documents in one place. Search for the matter name using natural language or terms and connectors to see all of your related activity history.

Docket Alarm’s visual search history provides benefits beyond accessing prior search sessions— it creates a repository of data for all of your users, allowing you to see statistics and usage data for your team over time. This could be helpful in evaluating the utility of the service both on an individual and collective level.

If you are not already taking advantage of Docket Alarm’s innovative research features like visual search history, sign up at www.docketalarm.com to get started.

Featured on Patently-O: Docket Alarm's Latest Article Unpacks Gender Diversity With Legal Analytics

noreply@blogger.com (Tara Klamrowski) — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 05:25:00 +0000

Docket Alarm's latest article, Gender Analytics: Using Litigation Data to Evaluate Law Firm Diversity, explores how legal analytics can be used to conduct an in depth analysis of gender imbalances at law firms. By analyzing the gender of attorney appearances, Docket Alarm's analytics use litigation data to identify firms that are making a real commitment to gender diversity.

Read the full article at Patently-O.

Easily Find Top Attorneys with Docket Alarm's New Analytics Tool

noreply@blogger.com (Tara Klamrowski) — Sat, 15 Jul 2017 20:41:00 +0000

Just in time for the annual AALL conference, Docket Alarm is excited to announce the addition of attorney analytics to its analytics platform. Now, along with being able to view analytics on parties, judges, and law firms, users can see how individual attorneys are performing in the PTAB.

The attorney analytics tool allows users to identify top attorneys based on the number of proceedings in which they have participated, along with the parties they typically represent, the tech centers they focus on, their success rate. This tool can is used to identify top litigators at particular law firms and the clients they represent.

Using filters, users can quickly narrow attorney statistics by time, proceeding type, representation, decision type, tech center and more.

The Top 5 PTAB attorneys by case volume. Attorneys can be filtered and ranked by a variety of factors.

Docket Alarm’s attorney analytics tool has a wide variety of uses. Attorneys can feature their own PTAB statistics on their website or incorporate it into their marketing materials. For firms, this tool can help them with hiring by identifying an attorney’s clientele.

These metrics can also help clients select an attorney, giving them the ability to determine which PATB counsel that would be the most appropriate for their technology and position. For clients committed to gender diversity, this tool can help identify firms that have a high number of female attorneys litigating at the PTAB.

Docket Alarm’s attorney analytics makes it easy for clients, firms, and opposing counsel to identify top attorneys and understand their performance at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. To start researching PTAB attorneys, judges, firms, parties and more, visit www.docketalarm.com and sign up today.

Show Me the Money: Quickly Find Court Damages Awards, Verdicts, Judgments, and Fines by Dollar Amount

noreply@blogger.com (Tara Klamrowski) — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 13:54:00 +0000

Docket Alarm is excited to announce a new search feature that makes researching damages awards and jury verdicts fast and easy.

Researching dollar amounts in litigation is a common task, as parties often seek to understand their potential financial exposure or recovery by analyzing cases similar to their own. Previously, researching jury verdicts, damages, or other types of amounts in controversy was arduous. Researchers needed to either go through each case one-by-one or search for language that was often used in close proximity, such as the terms “damages” or “award.” Unfortunately, manually reviewing each document is extremely time consuming, and using too many shortcuts may result in overlooking relevant documents.

Docket Alarm has solved this problem. Now, parties can quickly find publicly listed amounts in controversy in comparable cases in order to better ascertain the financial impact of litigation.

Here’s how it works: Users can now search for ranges of numbers when researching dockets. For example, entering a search query for “$5000-$6000” will return all documents containing any dollar amount within that range.

This functionality opens a world of opportunities. For example, researchers can conduct find and compare damages awards in specific jurisdictions like the Eastern District of Texas. Searching court:(Eastern District Texas) $100000-20000000 will locate all cases with damages in in the $100,000 to $2 million range. This could be useful for parties seeking damages for patent infringement, giving them the ability to see what amounts were awarded in similar cases in that jurisdiction. This can also be helpful for users who want to track cases with a specific amount in controversy, such as litigation investors.

In addition to searching in specific jurisdictions or courts, users can also easily find the type of cash amount by searching for a numerical range in conjunction with a qualifying term, such as jury w/3 verdict $100k-$1000000. Searching for this query will find all cases with jury verdict amounts contained within that range.

Range searching is also helpful for finding monetary judgments against a particular party or individual. For example, find all of Apple’s judgments party:apple $1M-$10M.

With Docket Alarm’s new range search feature, researching cases just became a whole lot easier. To start using range searching and other innovative search features from Docket Alarm, sign up at www.docketalarm.com.