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Introducing the Billing Rates Extractor: Uncover Attorney Hourly Rates with Ease

noreply@blogger.com (Staff) — Thu, 09 May 2024 14:02:00 +0000

Docket Alarm is thrilled to announce the latest addition to our growing suite of OpenAI-powered endpoints: the Billing Rates Extractor. This game-changing tool enables users to quickly and easily access the hourly rates charged by attorneys, empowering legal professionals to make informed decisions and stay ahead of the competition.

The Billing Rates Extractor leverages the power of OpenAI's advanced language processing capabilities to extract attorney hourly rates from Docket Alarm's vast database. By simply providing key details about an attorney, such as their name, firm, and location, users can now uncover valuable insights into billing practices.

How it works:

1. Input attorney information: Provide the name and any additional information you would like such as firm, and location of the attorney you wish to research.

2. Intelligent data extraction: The Billing Rates Extractor utilizes OpenAI's cutting-edge models to scan through relevant documents and identify the attorney's hourly rate.

3. Structured results: The endpoint returns the attorney's hourly rate in a structured format, along with a citation to the source document for easy reference.

The Billing Rates Extractor offers numerous benefits for legal professionals, including:

Opposing counsel insights: Gain a better understanding of opposing counsel's rates to assess the level of risk and potential for high-stakes litigation, particularly for large corporations and insurance companies seeking to avoid nuclear verdicts.
Competitive benchmarking: Compare your firm's rates against those of comparable firms to ensure you remain competitive in the market and make data-driven pricing decisions.

As with all of Docket Alarm's OpenAI-powered endpoints, the Billing Rates Extractor is designed to integrate seamlessly with your existing workflows. Developers can easily incorporate this functionality into their applications using Docket Alarm's API.

We invite you to explore the possibilities of the Billing Rates Extractor and experience firsthand how it can revolutionize your research and decision-making processes. For more information on this exciting new endpoint, please refer to Docket Alarm's API Specification.

Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to expand our suite of OpenAI-powered tools, designed to empower legal professionals with the insights they need to succeed in today's fast-paced legal landscape.

Introducing Complaint Summarization and Cause of Action Extraction Tools

noreply@blogger.com (Staff) — Mon, 06 May 2024 21:48:00 +0000

Docket Alarm is proud to present our latest tools powered by artificial intelligence -the Complaint Summarizer and Cause of Action Extractor endpoints for the Docket Alarm API. These tools allow users to quickly and easily answer two of the most important questions present in any lawsuit - what are the facts alleged in the complaint, and what laws are alleged to have been broken?

With these endpoints, users can instantly understand what a case is about, and what types of claims are at stake. Using the API, dozens of cases can be analyzed in this way at once. Summarize every case in your firm’s document management system and add the results as a field, or use the Cause of Action results to find other cases filed under the same law.

Here’s how it works:

1. Input case information: Provide the docket number and the court name - that’s all that’s needed.

2. Intelligent data extraction: The Complaint Summarizer and Cause of Action Extractor use OpenAI's cutting-edge models to scan through the case and find the most recent complaint.

3. Structured results: The Complaint Summarizer will return a textual summary of the document, whereas the Cause of Action Extractor outputs a structured list of the different claims in the case.

As with all of Docket Alarm's OpenAI-powered endpoints, these two new tools are designed to integrate seamlessly with your existing workflows. Developers can easily incorporate the new functionalities into their applications using Docket Alarm's API.

We invite you to explore the possibilities of the Complaint Summarizer Cause of Action Extractor and experience firsthand how it can revolutionize your research and decision-making processes. For more information on this exciting new endpoint, please refer to Docket Alarm's API Specification.

Save Time and Effort Spent Crafting Queries Using the Smart Search Beta API Endpoint

noreply@blogger.com (Staff) — Wed, 01 May 2024 21:47:00 +0000

Crafting precise search queries can be a time-consuming and delicate process, even for the most sophisticated of legal researchers. The beta launch of Docket Alarm’s new Smart Search endpoint seeks to streamline this process while optimizing the accessibility of even the most granular litigation data.

The Smart Search tool converts plain language instructions into robust queries, perfectly tailored to Docket Alarm’s search algorithm. Simply send your request to /smart_search/ along with your login token, OpenAI API key, and a set of instructions detailing what you need to find. The endpoint will then generate an optimized query to target that specific criteria.

For example, let's say you need to locate all documents involving Ford Motor Company (but not Ford Motor Credit) that may contain judgment amounts, fees, and span from June 2014 to December 2019. Just include those instructions, and Smart Search will dynamically build a Docket Alam-specific query such as:

party:(Ford AND "Motor Company" NOT "Motor Credit") documenttitle:(judgment OR judgement OR "damages awarded" OR fee OR fees OR "amount due" OR "awarded amount") from:6/1/2014 to:12/31/2019 is:document

Smart Search has demonstrated great improvements to search efficiency and accessibility throughout our team’s internal testing. Should you explore the beta for yourself, we look forward to hearing about how Smart Search improves your organization’s litigation data research.

Docket Alarm's Case Matcher API: Find Cases Effortlessly with Limited Details

noreply@blogger.com (Staff) — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 21:46:00 +0000

It can feel impossible to locate quality litigation data when crafting search queries from partial case details. Without a full docket number and court details, targeted data points can easily evade detection—obscured by the ever-rising tide of new cases and filings. However, Docket Alarm's latest API innovation, the Case Matcher endpoint, harnesses advanced language models and search engineering to match limited details with actual dockets from our database, making the process of finding cases more efficient than ever.

Using the Case Matcher endpoint is straightforward. Simply send a GET request to /case_matcher/ along with any relevant information you have - parties involved, state, filing date, keywords from the case title, etc. The more details you can provide, the better the match will be. The API will then use the same process a human would to find the correct case on Docket Alarm, no matter what information you have available.

Key advantages of the Case Matcher API:

1. Saves time: Automate the case matching process and eliminate manual searches.

2. Improves accuracy: Sophisticated algorithms ensure precise case matches.

3. Seamless integration: Easily incorporate the API into your existing case management systems.

4. Customizable: Specify the matching criteria most important to your firm.

5. Real-time updates: Keep your internal databases current with the latest case information.

Case Matcher converts the limited details provided into a cohesive response, containing the matched case number, court, and token cost, paired with a link to review the case in full on Docket Alarm. This tool is poised to be invaluable for firms, attorneys, and legal professionals who need to quickly identify and access case information from partial details.

The Case Matcher endpoint is currently available in beta. Utilize the endpoint today to eliminate the frustrations of searching based on partial data once and for all!

Docket Alarm Reaches New Milestone: 800 Million Documents Now Available in Database

noreply@blogger.com (Natalie Dowd) — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:29:00 +0000

We are thrilled to share a significant milestone in the evolution of Docket Alarm — our database now houses over 800 million documents and dockets, marking a momentous expansion that reinforces our commitment to delivering the most comprehensive legal research tool available. This achievement not only highlights our continuous growth but also our unwavering dedication to enhancing the research capabilities of attorneys and legal professionals across the globe.

We plan to add more state coverage in the coming weeks, after recently adding North Carolina and Oklahoma state to the database, further enriching our database and ensuring that our users have access to the most up-to-date and comprehensive legal information available.

Explore our complete coverage on our website.

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

Motion Analytics Expands to New Cities

noreply@blogger.com (Natalie Dowd) — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 15:37:00 +0000

Docket Alarm’s state analytics have expanded to new jurisdictions, including major cities.

Pleading tags, launched for federal courts in 2022, apply universal identifiers to docket entries, making it easier to quickly read a docket sheet. The pleading tags also power motion analytics, allowing users to learn how likely a particular motion type is to succeed.

The newly launched jurisdictions include:

District of Columbia

Superior Court

Georgia

Fulton County

Texas

Harris County

We look forward to continuing to expand our analytics offerings to state courts throughout the year!

Docket Alarm Expands California State Coverage

noreply@blogger.com (Natalie Dowd) — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:45:00 +0000

Exciting news from Docket Alarm: we've expanded our coverage in California! We now cover Mariposa, Mendocino, Shasta and Yolo counties, which includes the metropolitan of Sacramento. With these additions, Docket Alarm now covers a total of 31 counties in California, bringing us closer to complete coverage in the state.

This expansion brings our total county coverage to over 1,270. Stay updated with Docket Alarm as we continue to expand our coverage.

Explore our complete coverage on our website. For more information or assistance with your subscription, please contact our sales team at sales@docketalarm.com.

Docket Alarm Expands Coverage to North Carolina

noreply@blogger.com (Natalie Dowd) — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:58:00 +0000

Docket Alarm is thrilled to announce our expansion into the Tar Heel state: North Carolina. This addition covers 17 counties, including key cities like Raleigh and Charlotte. This expansion provides docket and document access to Superior and District Court data dating back to 2017.

The counties now covered include Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Harnett, Hyde, Johnston, Lee, Martin, Mecklenburg, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, Wake, and Washington.

Users can leverage our platform to search and analyze cases based on various parameters such as attorney names, party names, case types, judges, and more.

With the addition of North Carolina, Docket Alarm now has access in 36 states and over 1,355 counties.

Stay tuned for future updates as Docket Alarm continues to expand its coverage. Our expansion into North Carolina comes in after our recent additions of Wisconsin and expanded coverage in California.

Explore our complete coverage on our website.

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

Motion Analytics in Wisconsin

noreply@blogger.com (Natalie Dowd) — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:21:00 +0000

Docket Alarm has expanded Pleading Tags and Motion Analytics in state courts, adding coverage statewide in Wisconsin.

Pleading tag apply universal identifiers to docket entries, making it easier to quickly read a docket sheet. The pleading tags also power motion analytics, allowing users to learn how likely a particular motion type is to succeed.

The new Wisconsin coverage is the latest in our expanding library of state court analytics. Users can expect more courts to be added in the coming weeks and months.

Docket Alarm Unveils OpenAI-Powered API Endpoints

noreply@blogger.com (Natalie Dowd) — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 16:05:00 +0000

Docket Alarm's latest update streamlines workflows and enhances decision-making by introducing the power of OpenAI’s models to our API. Beta access is now live for our first two OpenAI endpoints, Judgment Extraction and Ask a Docket.

Judgment Extraction:
This endpoint returns judgment information from any case in Docket Alarm’s library. Simply enter a docket number and corresponding court name. When judgment data is located, the Judgment Extraction endpoint retrieves verdict data, including:

Judgment Winner
Winner Type
Judgment Interest
Attorney’s Fees
Judgment Costs
Total Judgment Amount
Judgment Type

Ask a Docket:
This endpoint harnesses language processing to extract structured values from Docket Alarm's database. Enter a docket number and court name, then pose questions about a docket and specify an answer format. Ask a Docket returns detailed answers in a matching format, paired with a citation to relevant docket data. At scale, the endpoint provides an excellent method for streamlining mass data research and entry. An example is as follows:

Question: "Is this case pre or post discovery?"
Answer: “Discovery is not complete in this case.”
Relevant Docket Data:
"date": "3/15/2024",
"contents": ". . . Fact discovery to be completed by 5/1/2024. . ."

Docket Alarm’s API continues to empower users with the tools needed to accelerate decision-making, enhance efficiency, and drive better outcomes. Read more about these endpoints in Docket Alarm’s API Specification and be certain to check back for more exciting updates.

Motion Analytics in Florida and California

noreply@blogger.com (Natalie Dowd) — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:33:00 +0000

Docket Alarm has expanded Pleading Tags and Motion Analytics in state courts, adding coverage in key counties in Florida and California.

We are pleased to announce the newest additions:

Florida

Broward County
Duval County
Hillsborough County
Miami-Dade County
Pinellas County

California

Alameda County
Riverside County
San Diego County
San Francisco County

Docket Alarm Now Offers Direct API Connections to Litera Foundation

noreply@blogger.com (Natalie Dowd) — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 20:55:00 +0000

Docket Alarm’s latest integration offers the unparalleled capability for API subscribers to seamlessly connect public litigation data to Litera’s Foundation knowledge management platform.

This service can stream our vast library and feeds of IP and litigation data directly into Foundation databases. This data stream enriches internal records and opens a world of possibilities, including options to:

Add complaint summaries and extracted claims from newly filed cases.
Build comprehensive client views to highlight growth opportunities.
Expand internal drafts with arguments and authorities from winning briefs.
Import extracted judgment information from historical records.

Our solutions engineers lead complete, bespoke integrations and offer options for self-hosting. There has never been a more effective way for API users to leverage insights from public litigation data alongside their organizations work experience for competitive advantage and operational efficiencies.

Docket Alarm Expands Coverage: Welcome Kankakee County, Illinois, and Rockdale County, Georgia!

noreply@blogger.com (Natalie Dowd) — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 20:17:00 +0000

Coming off the recent addition of Wisconsin State, Docket Alarm continues to expand its coverage to include Kankakee County, Illinois, and Rockdale, Georgia.

Coverage includes the Circuit Court of Kankakee County, Illinois, and the State, Magistrate, and Superior Courts in Rockdale, Georgia. With this update, our coverage in Illinois now spans four counties, while Georgia's coverage reaches an impressive 154 counties, bringing us close to complete statewide coverage.

Stay tuned for future updates as Docket Alarm continues to expand its coverage.

Explore our complete coverage on our website.

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

Docket Alarm Expands Coverage to Wisconsin State

noreply@blogger.com (Natalie Dowd) — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:23:00 +0000

Exciting news for legal practitioners in the Badger State: Docket Alarm has broadened its coverage to Wisconsin, encompassing all 72 counties, including key cities like Milwaukee, Madison, and Green Bay. This expansion provides access to Circuit Court data dating back to 2017.

Users can leverage our platform to search and analyze cases based on various parameters such as firm names, party names, case types, judges, and more.

With the addition of Wisconsin, Docket Alarm now has access in 35 states and over 1,340 counties.

Stay tuned for future updates as Docket Alarm continues to expand its coverage. Our expansion into Wisconsin comes in after our recent additions of counties in Kansas and Texas.

Explore our complete coverage on our website.

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

Explore the New Synergies between Docket Alarm and Vincent AI

noreply@blogger.com (Natalie Dowd) — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 21:52:00 +0000

Subscribers of our sister product, Vincent AI, just gained additional value from their Docket Alarm subscriptions. The new “Analyze Document” skill marks a next-generation leap towards Vincent AI becoming a full-fledged legal research co-pilot.

Vincent AI can now analyze any type of legal document from Docket Alarm– complaints, motions, patents, trademarks, orders and more. Some examples of Vincent AI’s analysis include:

Extract and Analyze Claims - This skill outlines the claims stated in a complaint, along with the citations, facts, witnesses, and parties for each claim. Vincent then explores the questions that a lawyer would ask to assess the strengths and weaknesses of each cause of action for each claim.
Generate Defenses to Each Claim - Vincent AI can propose defenses to each listed claim and provide supporting authority.
Create Follow-up Questions for Clients - Create a questionnaire for clients or other parties which targets the information needed to respond to the uploaded filing. For example, in a copyright action, Vincent AI will prompt inquiry into which policies a party had in place to prevent infringement.

Watch the demo of Vincent AI's new Analyze Document feature here.
Be on the lookout for more exciting synergies between Docket Alarm and Vincent AI soon!

New Feature: Motion Analytics in Delaware Chancery

noreply@blogger.com (Natalie Dowd) — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:27:00 +0000

Docket Alarm now features Pleading Tags and Motion Analytics in state courts.

Delaware’s Court of Chancery is the first state court to receive motion analytics. We’ll be expanding our state court analytics coverage in the coming months!

Docket Alarm Expands Kansas and Texas Coverage

noreply@blogger.com (Natalie Dowd) — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 18:47:00 +0000

Exciting news from Docket Alarm: we've expanded our coverage in Kansas and Texas! In Kansas, we now cover Shawnee and Wyandotte counties, while in Texas, we now cover Bell County, Wichita County, Jasper County, and Gonzales County. With these additions, Docket Alarm now covers a total of 61 counties in Texas and 37 in Kansas.

This expansion brings our total county coverage to over 1,270. Stay updated with Docket Alarm as we continue to expand our coverage.

Explore our complete coverage on our website. For more information or assistance with your subscription, please contact our sales team at sales@docketalarm.com.

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.