We’re thrilled to announce the latest expansion with the addition of United Kingdom court coverage! This marks our first international content offering, allowing users to easily access UK docket information, complementing our comprehensive U.S. database. With this expansion, legal professionals can now conduct research, track international cases, and stay informed on relevant UK court activity — all in one place.

Our advanced search and alert functionalities mean users can quickly find the cases they need and stay updated on important developments.

If you’ve ever struggled to keep your PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) fees under control, you’re not alone. For firms with multiple users accessing federal court records, these costs can add up quickly. The good news is that managing these fees just got a whole lot easier with the introduction of the new PACER Fee Alert Management Dashboard.

This dashboard is designed to help account administrators take control of PACER fee alerts more efficiently and reduce unnecessary costs.

Docket Alarm is excited to our announce our increased coverage in Pennsylvania with the addition of Montgomery County, Civil Division! This addition builds on our existing Philadelphia County coverage and brings us closer to offering full access to civil cases across all major cities in Pennsylvania.

With Montgomery County now in our database, you can search by attorney, judge, case type and more to find exactly what you need.

At Docket Alarm, we’re thrilled to announce a significant expansion of our coverage in North Carolina, adding 10 new counties, on top of recently adding 17 counties, including Wake County (Raleigh) and Mecklenburg County (Charlotte). This addition gives legal professionals in these key areas access to essential court documents and docket updates, enabling them to manage their cases and research more efficiently. 

The counties include; Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Guilford (Greensboro), Orange, Person, Vance, and Warren.

This year, Docket Alarm has added:

• Oklahoma Statewide*
• Wisconsin Statewide*
• Rockdale County, GA
• Kankakee County, IL
• Macomb County, MI
• Saginaw County, MI
• North Carolina; 17 counties including Mecklenburg (Charlotte) and Wake (Raleigh) County
• Lake County, OH

We're excited to announce new additions to Docket Alarm: Saginaw County, Michigan, and Lake County, Ohio. This update expands our coverage, providing attorneys with access to a broader range of dockets and court documents.

This expansion ensures you have the tools to stay informed and ahead in the legal landscape, whether you’re preparing for trial or conducting detailed legal research.

With the addition of these two counties, Docket Alarm now covers over 1,400 counties and 37 states.

This year, Docket Alarm has added:

• Oklahoma Statewide*
• Wisconsin Statewide*
• Rockdale County, GA
• Kankakee County, IL
• Macomb County, MI
• North Carolina; 17 counties including Mecklenburg (Charlotte) and Wake (Raleigh) County

Docket Alarm’s state analytics have expanded to four exciting new jurisdictions across three new states.

With state analytics enabled, each docket event is tagged with an event type and, if applicable, a motion identifier and outcome. With state court analytics, users can view large trends in these and other jurisdictions. You can see which motion types are likely to be successful before your assigned judge, or see which courses of action have been successful in the past. 

The newly launched jurisdictions include: 

• North Carolina

• Superior Court, statewide

• District Court, statewide

• Ohio

• Hamilton County

• Montgomery County

• New Mexico

• Bernalillo County

We look forward to continuing to expand our analytics offerings to state courts throughout the year!

Docket Alarm recently expanded coverage in the state of Michigan to include Macomb County! The addition of Macomb County along with our existing coverage in Wayne County gives users near complete coverage in the Motor City USA, Detroit. 

The addition of Macomb County comes on the heels of adding Oklahoma state and additional counties in California. Stay updated with Docket Alarm as we continue to expand our coverage.

Explore our complete coverage on our website.

For more information or assistance with your subscription, please contact our sales team at sales@docketalarm.com.

Docket Alarm now features new ways to get more from your data with SALI tags. 

SALI, or Standards Advancement for the Legal Industry, is an organization promoting a universal, interoperable system for tagging legal cases and documents. 

Docket Alarm’s API can now take advantage of SALI tags through two new AI endpoints - Area of Law and Forum and Venues The Area of Law endpoint takes a docket’s case type - whether it is state, federal, or an agency - and outputs the relevant SALI Area of Law tag.

Chicago and Miami (May 29, 2024), iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work™, and vLex, a leading global legal intelligence platform, today jointly announced a new partnership which will see a number of secure and robust integrations enhancing the workflows and knowledge resources for their customers.

As the industry’s leading knowledge work platform, iManage provides 4,000+ customers with the highly reliable and performant platform they rely on to secure and manage their work product. vLex is trusted by more than two million lawyers, researchers, and government departments, offering comprehensive and intuitive access to the law in more than 200 jurisdictions through a versatile, AI-powered legal intelligence platform.

With the two initial integrations between the platforms, customers will benefit from a single view across internal best-practice know-how and publicly available legal data.

Searching for a company’s litigation record is rarely as simple as entering a name and clicking “search.” Companies may be listed on dockets under dozens of variations— parent corporations, subsidiaries, business units, misspellings and more. 

Missing relevant search results is not the only concern either. Searches for common business names may yield overly-inclusive results, including false-positives for “Apple Orchards Inc.” when intending to only locate results for “Apple” Computers.

Though the use of fuzzy searching can improve results, it never fully addresses the issue as it faces the same tradeoff between precision and recall as a well-crafted boolean search.

We are excited to introduce a new feature for our customers: customizable document titles in Docket Alarm alerts. This new feature allows you to tailor the titles of documents attached to alerts, facilitating seamless integration with your document management systems and automated workflows.  

With customizable document titles, you can include various fields such as: 

• Court Name
• Case Title
• Docket Number
• Document Title
• Exhibit Number
• Filing Number
• Filing Date

This flexibility allows you to control the length of file names and helps streamline the document management process, making it more efficient and organized.

Docket Alarm is thrilled to announce the latest addition to our growing suite of OpenAI-powered endpoints: the Billing Rates Extractor. This game-changing tool enables users to quickly and easily access the hourly rates charged by attorneys, empowering legal professionals to make informed decisions and stay ahead of the competition.

The Billing Rates Extractor leverages the power of OpenAI's advanced language processing capabilities to extract attorney hourly rates from Docket Alarm's vast database.

Docket Alarm is proud to present our latest tools powered by artificial intelligence -the Complaint Summarizer and Cause of Action Extractor endpoints for the Docket Alarm API. These tools allow users to quickly and easily answer two of the most important questions present in any lawsuit - what are the facts alleged in the complaint, and what laws are alleged to have been broken?

With these endpoints, users can instantly understand what a case is about, and what types of claims are at stake.

Crafting precise search queries can be a time-consuming and delicate process, even for the most sophisticated of legal researchers. The beta launch of Docket Alarm’s new Smart Search endpoint seeks to streamline this process while optimizing the accessibility of even the most granular litigation data.

The Smart Search tool converts plain language instructions into robust queries, perfectly tailored to Docket Alarm’s search algorithm.

It can feel impossible to locate quality litigation data when crafting search queries from partial case details. Without a full docket number and court details, targeted data points can easily evade detection—obscured by the ever-rising tide of new cases and filings. However, Docket Alarm's latest API innovation, the Case Matcher endpoint, harnesses advanced language models and search engineering to match limited details with actual dockets from our database, making the process of finding cases more efficient than ever.

Using the Case Matcher endpoint is straightforward.