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Lex Machina Releases 2024 Antitrust Litigation Report

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Thursday, April 4, 2024
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MENLO PARK, Calif., April 4, 2024  /PRNewswire/ -- Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, today releases its annual Antitrust Litigation Report. The report examines antitrust litigation trends in federal district and appellate courts. Focusing on the three-year period from 2021 to 2023, it surveys emerging trends in case filings, venues, judges, law firms, parties, timing metrics, case resolutions, findings, and damages. The report often focuses on different sets of data, e.g., filtering cases in order to provide analytics on general antitrust cases, DOJ/FTC enforcement contested cases, MDL Master cases, antitrust class action cases, and federal appellate cases.

Key Points: 
  • In the last three years, various subsets of antitrust litigation have exhibited a similar case filing pattern consisting of a drop in 2022 followed by a rebound in 2023
    MENLO PARK, Calif., April 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, today releases its annual Antitrust Litigation Report.
  • The report examines antitrust litigation trends in federal district and appellate courts.
  • "Antitrust is a complex area of litigation that includes different subsets of cases as well as significant numbers of MDL cases," said Ron Porter, Lex Machina's antitrust legal data expert and editor of the report.
  • Register here for a copy of the report: https://pages.lexmachina.com/2024-Antitrust-Report_LP.html
    Lex Machina is hosting a webcast to discuss the report on April 4, 2024 at noon ET/9am PT with Anna Rathbun (Partner at Latham & Watkins), Ron Porter (Lex Machina's Legal Data Expert in Antitrust Litigation), and Aria Nejad (Lex Machina's in-house counsel).

Lex Machina Releases Litigation Footprint, a Groundbreaking Expansion of Legal Analytics Coverage

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024
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MENLO PARK, Calif., March 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, announced today that it has officially released "Litigation Footprint," its continually expanding collection of Legal Analytics on the litigation history of companies in over 27 million cases filed in 94 federal district courts and over 1,300 state courts in 34 states and the District of Columbia. This data includes Lex Machina's complete coverage of federal district courts and enhanced state court coverage, along with new expanded basic state court coverage, together constituting the broadest Legal Analytics coverage available. Litigation Footprint enables legal practitioners to craft successful litigation strategies, win cases, and close business by leveraging this unsurpassed expanse and depth of coverage.

Key Points: 
  • This data includes Lex Machina's complete coverage of federal district courts and enhanced state court coverage, along with new expanded basic state court coverage, together constituting the broadest Legal Analytics coverage available.
  • Litigation Footprint enables legal practitioners to craft successful litigation strategies, win cases, and close business by leveraging this unsurpassed expanse and depth of coverage.
  • Litigation Footprint further amplifies the power of Lex Machina's Legal Analytics by providing the most extensive survey of party litigation track records, built on the best coverage of electronically available courts.
  • Our customers are always excited when we expand our Legal Analytics content coverage, and Litigation Footprint is one of the biggest coverage expansions in Lex Machina's history."

Lex Machina Releases 2024 Securities Litigation Report

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Thursday, March 7, 2024
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MENLO PARK, Calif., March 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, today releases its annual Securities Litigation Report. The report examines trends in securities litigation in federal district courts and appellate courts. Focusing on the three-year period from 2021 to 2023, it surveys emerging trends in case filings, venues, judges, law firms, parties, timing metrics, case resolutions, findings, and damages. The report often focuses on different sets of data, e.g., filtering cases in order to provide analytics on general securities cases, shareholder derivative suits, class action securities cases, cryptocurrency cases, SPAC cases, and securities appellate cases.

Key Points: 
  • While general securities cases have declined since 2021, shareholder derivative suits, class action securities cases, and cryptocurrency cases increased in 2023 compared to 2022
    MENLO PARK, Calif., March 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, today releases its annual Securities Litigation Report.
  • The report often focuses on different sets of data, e.g., filtering cases in order to provide analytics on general securities cases, shareholder derivative suits, class action securities cases, cryptocurrency cases, SPAC cases, and securities appellate cases.
  • Surveying the analytics for securities litigation allows us to map what's happening in the courts to external forces that might be driving and influencing patterns of securities litigation."
  • Register here for a copy of the report: https://pages.lexmachina.com/2024-Securities-Report_LP.html
    Lex Machina is hosting a webcast to discuss the report on March 7, 2024 at noon ET/9am PT with Kevin McDonough (Partner at Latham & Watkins), Laura Hopkins (Lex Machina's Legal Data Expert in Securities Litigation), and Aria Nejad (Lex Machina's in-house counsel).

Lex Machina Releases 2024 Patent Litigation Report

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Thursday, February 8, 2024
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MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, today releases its annual Patent Litigation Report. The report examines trends in patent litigation in federal district courts, appellate courts, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Focusing on the three-year period from 2021 to 2023, it surveys emerging trends in case filings, venues, judges, law firms, parties, timing metrics, case resolutions, findings, and damages. The report often focuses on different sets of data, e.g., filtering cases in order to provide analytics on general patent, high-volume plaintiff, ANDA, PTAB, and federal appellate cases.

Key Points: 
  • Patent case filings continued the decreasing trend exhibited since 2021, likely driven by the drop in cases filed by high-volume plaintiffs over the same period of time, and case filings before Judge Albright and the Western District of Texas declined in 2023
    MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, today releases its annual Patent Litigation Report.
  • The report examines trends in patent litigation in federal district courts, appellate courts, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).
  • "Our data illuminates several intriguing recent trends in patent litigation," said Elaine Chow, Lex Machina's patent legal data expert and editor of the report.
  • Register here for a copy of the report: https://pages.lexmachina.com/2024-Patent-Report_LP.html
    Lex Machina is hosting a webcast to discuss the report on February 8, 2024 at noon ET/9am PT with Michael Connelly (President of WIT Legal), Michael Flynn (Partner at Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell), Elaine Chow (Lex Machina's Legal Data Expert in Patent Litigation), and Aria Nejad (Lex Machina's in-house counsel).

Annual Legal Analytics Survey Reveals: Client Demand Continues to Drive High Usage of Legal Analytics

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Monday, February 5, 2024
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MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Lex Machina and LexisNexis recently conducted their annual Impact of Legal Analytics survey. Each year, Lex Machina reaches out to legal professionals, both customers and non-customers, in order to gain insights into how Legal Analytics continues to be used and perceived.

Key Points: 
  • In the 2024 Annual Legal Analytics Survey, 80% of Legal Professionals reported that clients required or expected them to use Legal Analytics, and twice as many Legal Analytics users felt prepared for generative AI compared to non-users
    MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Lex Machina and LexisNexis recently conducted their annual Impact of Legal Analytics survey.
  • "A record number of legal professionals stated that their clients expect or require them to use Legal Analytics in their practice, with 100% of Legal Analytics users finding it valuable to their practice.
  • From the 2018 survey, where 36% of respondents used Legal Analytics to now nearly 7 in 10, Legal Analytics has become an expected component of practicing law.
  • The survey results are consistent in reflecting the use and view of Legal Analytics as a crucial driver of success in the legal industry.

Lex Machina Releases 2023 Contracts: Commercial Litigation Report

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Thursday, December 7, 2023
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MENLO PARK, Calif., Dec. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, today releases its 2023 Contracts: Commercial Litigation Report. The report examines trends in commercial litigation in federal district courts and appellate courts. Focusing on the three-year period from 2020 to 2022, it surveys emerging trends in case filings, venues, judges, law firms, attorneys, parties, timing metrics, case resolutions, findings, and damages. The report often focuses on different sets of data, e.g., filtering cases in order to provide analytics on general contracts cases, commercial cases, non-commercial cases, and contracts class action cases filed in the federal district courts, along with contracts cases docketed in the federal appellate courts.

Key Points: 
  • MENLO PARK, Calif., Dec. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, today releases its 2023 Contracts: Commercial Litigation Report.
  • The report examines trends in commercial litigation in federal district courts and appellate courts.
  • "Lex Machina's module on contracts cases is expansive and comprehensive," said Karen Chadwick, Lex Machina's contracts legal data expert and editor of the report.
  • That's why we often choose to turn the spotlight on commercial litigation, a crucial and nuanced area of law.

Lex Machina Releases 2023 Torts Litigation Report

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Thursday, November 9, 2023
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MENLO PARK, Calif., Nov. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, today releases its annual Torts Litigation Report. The report examines trends in torts litigation in federal district courts and appellate courts. Focusing on the three-year period from 2020 to 2022, it surveys emerging trends in case filings, venues, judges, law firms, attorneys, parties, timing metrics, case resolutions, findings, and damages. The report often focuses on different sets of data, e.g., filtering cases in order to provide analytics on general torts cases, torts cases excluding mass torts, motor vehicle cases, premises liability cases, and medical malpractice cases filed in the federal district courts, along with torts cases docketed in the federal appellate courts.

Key Points: 
  • The trend of torts case filings has remained fairly steady over the past decade with a spike in 2019 driven by mass torts, while various subsets of torts cases have exhibited differing fluctuations
    MENLO PARK, Calif., Nov. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, today releases its annual Torts Litigation Report.
  • The report examines trends in torts litigation in federal district courts and appellate courts.
  • The report often focuses on different sets of data, e.g., filtering cases in order to provide analytics on general torts cases, torts cases excluding mass torts, motor vehicle cases, premises liability cases, and medical malpractice cases filed in the federal district courts, along with torts cases docketed in the federal appellate courts.
  • "The torts litigation report is always a fascinating report to produce, because it shines a light on the changing trends and patterns evidenced in the various subsets of torts cases Lex Machina tracks," said Karen Chadwick, Lex Machina's torts legal data expert and editor of the report.

Lex Machina Releases 2023 Real Property Litigation Report

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Thursday, October 19, 2023
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MENLO PARK, Calif., Oct. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, today releases its annual Real Property Litigation Report. The report examines trends in real property litigation in federal district courts and appellate courts. Focusing on the five-year period from 2018 to 2022, it surveys emerging trends in case filings, venues, judges, law firms, attorneys, parties, timing metrics, case resolutions, findings, and damages. The report often focuses on different sets of data, e.g., filtering cases in order to provide analytics on general real property cases and federal appellate real property cases.

Key Points: 
  • The trend of real property case filings has exhibited a general decrease over the last eight years with a small uptick in 2022, reflecting the depressing effect of the pandemic and the recent recovery
    MENLO PARK, Calif., Oct. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, today releases its annual Real Property Litigation Report.
  • The report often focuses on different sets of data, e.g., filtering cases in order to provide analytics on general real property cases and federal appellate real property cases.
  • "Real property litigation is a practice area that is impacted by multiple complex factors, particularly in recent years," said Ellen Chen, Lex Machina's real property legal data expert and editor of the report.
  • "By understanding real property litigation patterns over time, especially after filtering to specific subsets of cases, we can gain data-driven insights into the likely impact of different external factors and circumstances on real property litigation."

Lex Machina Releases 2023 Product Liability Litigation Report

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Thursday, September 14, 2023
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MENLO PARK, Calif., Sept. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, today releases its annual Product Liability Litigation Report. The report examines trends in product liability litigation in federal district courts and appellate courts. Focusing on the five-year period from 2018 to 2022, it surveys emerging trends in case filings, venues, judges, law firms, parties, timing metrics, case resolutions, findings, and damages. The report often focuses on different sets of data, e.g., filtering cases in order to provide analytics on general product liability cases, medical device/pharmaceutical cases, vehicle cases, and federal appellate product liability cases.

Key Points: 
  • Product liability cases (excluding MDL Associated Cases) have generally increased over recent years, with subsets of cases clustered around specific large-scale litigation events
    MENLO PARK, Calif., Sept. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, today releases its annual Product Liability Litigation Report.
  • The report examines trends in product liability litigation in federal district courts and appellate courts.
  • The report often focuses on different sets of data, e.g., filtering cases in order to provide analytics on general product liability cases, medical device/pharmaceutical cases, vehicle cases, and federal appellate product liability cases.
  • "Lex Machina monitors different trends in product liability litigation through analyzing the kinds of data offered in this report," said Ron Porter, Lex Machina's product liability legal data expert and editor of the report.

Lex Machina Launches Enhanced Legal Analytics for Oregon State Courts

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Wednesday, July 19, 2023
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MENLO PARK, Calif., July 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, now provides Legal Analytics for nine Oregon Circuit Courts serving the following counties: Benton, Clackamas, Deschutes, Jackson, Lane, Linn, Marion, Multnomah, and Washington (the "Oregon Courts"). Lex Machina's Oregon Courts coverage extends to more than 230,000 civil cases.

Key Points: 
  • Lex Machina plans to release Legal Analytics for the remaining Oregon civil trial courts later in 2023.
  • "At Lex Machina, one of our highest priorities is to expand and enhance our state court Legal Analytics," said Chuan Qin, product manager at Lex Machina and lead on the Oregon state court module.
  • Lex Machina ensures the state court data and analytics are up to date by maintaining technology that continuously captures and enhances raw data from the state courts.
  • These state courts join the other state court modules already available on Lex Machina, comprising a current total of 57 state courts.