FAQ

I need to invite somebody to see my claim, how do I do that?

You can invite internal and outside users to view your claim. You can use the Invite button from any page on your claim, and view users from within your company or invite someone from outside your organization .

If you would like to invite someone from within your organization who does not have system access, reach out to your client admin and they can add those users to the system.

What does it mean when an attorney has no verdicts?

The reported verdicts is the best piece of evidence a plaintiff attorney has to demonstrate his track Reported verdict data is one of the best pieces of evidence a plaintiff attorney has to demonstrate his or her track record. It is their “bragging list.” Plaintiff attorneys, much more than defense attorneys, tend to report their verdicts to reporting services since it is in their best interests to do so.

However, many attorneys in our system do not have any reported verdicts. How do we interpret this? Does it mean that they are inexperienced? Possibly, but not necessarily.

There are many reasons why a plaintiff attorney may not have results (either verdicts or docket information) in our system.

For docket information (filing rates, cycle times, case types, and more), these reasons include:

The venue in question has very little litigation (66% of all state court litigation in the United States comes from only 56 of 3,300 counties; many venues have very little litigation).
The venue in question makes it difficult to obtain docket information or there is a lag in making data available (Note: this is generally but not always flagged in our application).
The venue may report data but report an incomplete data set.

For reported verdict information, these reasons include:

He or she has had trials but has been unsuccessful, and therefore did not report the result; Or the verdicts were very small or not noteworthy and therefore were not reported
He or she was only a supporting attorney on a case that proceeded to verdict, and was not the first chair or listed as a primary attorney on the file
The attorney may simply not be in the habit of reporting verdicts

When analyzing an attorney’s performance, the absence of data can be an informative data point. When finding an attorney with very little, it is imperative to use your judgment to analyze why there may be no or limited data on an attorney’s verdicts or docket information.

In researching a specific attorney, we recommend looking at the plaintiff firm’s website. Frequently, firms brag about their results in that environment. Rarely, but sometimes, the results may include the identity of the specific attorney involved in the case. However, use caution when looking at listed dollar amounts, as we frequently find that the listed amounts were case settlements and not trial verdicts at all.

If you believe there are verdicts that are missing in Analyzer, please share any details you have on the verdict for the attorney or venue in questions so we can validate the data and provide that information going forward.

Where does the data come from?

Our court database is an aggregate of multiple data providers. To support our machine learning products, databases and analytics, we acquire data from multiple, disparate sources using a variety of methods including scraping, compiling, purchasing and generating our own. Rarely do we find raw data to be useful: the work starts after the raw data is acquired. What you see in our products is data that has been scrubbed, transformed, structured, normalized and often modeled.

Do you have every court in the United States?

Not all state courts have their court records available online for the public to see. About 80% of state courts do have their records available online, including the courts with the most cases. The 20% that don't have their records online only have about 6% of all the court cases in the United States.

Even when court records are available online, the access can be different for each county. We estimate that more than 80% of all state court lawsuits have their records available online.

We work with court data partners to get the raw court records from the county court systems. We then clean up the data, make it all look the same, and create models to analyze the information.

When lawyers work on court cases, their names don't always show up in the records. We usually find lawyers' names in about half of their cases. This gives us enough information to understand their work.

Sometimes, the court records may be available online, but our court data partners can't get the information. County court systems often change how they allow people to access their court records. This could be from basic maintenance, upgrades, changes to how the information is organized, or adding fees to see the records. Usually, our court data partners will get the records eventually, but it might take anywhere from a few months to two years. Most of the time, it takes about one year.

All the companies that provide court data face challenges keeping up with these changes because there are so many county courts. We want to let you know that this is why you may not be able to see court records for a specific location or lawyer.