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Bloomberg Litigation Analytics
Interested in analytical data about federal court judges, federal district courts, companies, law firms, or attorneys? Litigation Analytics offered on Bloomberg Law is an extremely useful tool for accessing and viewing relevant data in order to supplement your legal research.
Data-driven analytical research can be incredibly useful in preparing for litigation. For example, here are some ways you can use Bloomberg's litigation analytics in order to give yourself a leg up in your search:
- Researching Judges
- Analyze judge rulings by motion outcomes, appeal outcomes, length of cases, law firm/attorney appearances, and case types
- See the judges most cited opinion
- How often the judge gets affirmed or reversed on appeal
- Length of a typical case
- Which attorneys, companies, or legal topics the judge sees most often
- Clickable list of relevant court opinions by the judge and the dockets for matters before that judge
- Researching Opposing Lawyer
- Who the law firm/lawyer frequently represents
- Types of federal cases the lawyer has been involved in and where the cases are litigated
- How many federal cases the lawyer has handled over time
- Clickable list of relevant federal dockets involving law firm/lawyer
- Researching Companies
- Number of federal cases the company has been involved in with specifics of: Jurisdiction, nature of suit, law firms that have represented the company, attorneys who have represented the company
- Clickable list of the federal dockets involving the company
- General company info, hierarchy, and news
How to Get There:
From the Bloomberg Law homepage, select 'Litigation' from the top nav menu, then select 'Litigation Analytics'.
Have questions? Ask a librarian.
*Bloomberg Law is only accessible onsite at Jenkins Law Library to both members and users of the general public.
