The legal analytics platform Lex Machina has introduced a “fetch” functionality that allows users to request and retrieve specific documents from state court dockets.
The functionality is designed to enable users to dig into the details of analytics research they perform on Lex Machina, obtaining specific motions, orders or other documents that can provide details beyond what is revealed through docket entries.
The fetch functionality is available only for the 22 state courts covered by Lex Machina’s analytics, which currently includes selected courts in California, Delaware, Georgia, Nevada, New York and Texas. (Full list of covered courts.) There is no added cost beyond the user’s subscription.
Lex Machina — which is owned by LexisNexis — already routinely retrieves key state court documents such as complaints, answers, and judgments as part of creating its analytics. Because the information available directly through state court dockets varies widely from court to court, Lex Machina processes these documents to extract data on judges, law firms, attorneys and parties involved in cases, and then normalizes that data to create analytics.
