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The litigation analytics company Lex Machina has completed what it describes as a milestone expansion of its data set of court documents, adding another 500,000 federal district court cases so that it now has full coverage of virtually every civil case filed in federal district courts anywhere in the United States.
The only civil cases it does not include are prisoner petitions, which the company deemed not commercially relevant to its customer base of law firms and corporations.
Until now, Lex Machina’s analytics have been focused on specific, major practice areas (currently 22 practice areas), and in its collection and tagging of federal cases, it prioritized those practice areas. But with this latest expansion, it has added the remaining 15% of district court cases that did not fit under one of those major practice areas.
“This is a pretty big milestone in terms of our overall expansion to cover all civil litigation in federal district court,” Carla Rydholm, general manager and head of product at Lex Machina, told me during a briefing this week. “Now we have the ability to provide coverage of every commercially relevant case.”
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