Hot Product Report

Track Court Dockets
and Be the First to Knowof Important New Filings
By Neil J. Squillante
September 9, 2019

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cottage industry of legal newspapers
once existed that achieved successprimarily because of their court docket
listings. Nowadays, you can search
court dockets to find opportunities, track your own
cases, and receive notifications about new
litigation associated with key clients. The largest
court docket service recently relaunched based on
years of feedback from thousands of law firm
customers.

more than 100,000 new documents from thesecourts.
Thanks to this modernization, you can sign into
CourtLink using your Lexis Advance ID. When
researching dockets, you’ll find hyperlinked crossreferences to related materials in Lexis Advance aswell as in other services on the Lexis Advance
platform such as Lex Machina.

“Integration of CourtLink into
the Lexis Advance productecosystem provides our clientswith a better user experienceby making the product moreintuitive, more streamlined, andeasier to learn,” says Jeff
Pfeifer, Chief Product Officer,
North American Research
Solutions, LexisNexis.

Lexis Advance CourtLink inOne Sentence
Lexis Advance CourtLink is an online court docket
tool redesigned to make it easier to run searches,
track cases of interest, and receive alerts basedon your criteria.

The Killer Feature
CourtLink now resides on the Lexis Advance
platform, bringing with it all federal court dockets
going back several decades as well as more than
1,200 state courts. Each week, CourtLink adds

Most important is the new notification system.
CourtLink Tracks notify you about new docket
filings on cases you’re tracking, and CourtLink

CourtLink now features
the same design language
as Lexis Advance.

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Alerts notify you about new lawsuits and otherlitigation activity based on your saved searches.
Both types of notifications offer similar settings.
Choose how often you want to check for new
material (hourly, daily, etc.) and whether to receive
an email message. You can enter the email
addresses of colleagues and clients to share thenotifications you create. Email notifications canattach new documents from the corresponding
dockets in your choice of PDF or Word format.

The search results highlight your search terms andenable you to filter by litigation area, case type,case status, date filed, and more. Click a docket ofinterest to view its documents and their availability.
You can arrange for a courthouse retrieval ifnecessary.
“Integration of CourtLink into the Lexis Advance
product ecosystem provides our clients with abetter user experience by making the productmore intuitive, more streamlined, and easier tolearn,” says Jeff Pfeifer, Chief Product Officer,
North American Research Solutions, LexisNexis.
“CourtLink has long been the market leader incourt docket coverage and this re-invention of theproduct further improves a lawyer’s ability to trackand monitor critical litigation events.”

The Alerts page in CourtLink lists the dockets
you’re tracking and the searches you’ve saved, andlets you know the number of new items since yourlast visit. You can filter these notifications by court,
type of proceeding, client, recipients, etc. and also
search within them by keyword. When you view a
tracked docket, the Changes Only button saves
you time by listing only new documents you haven’t
seen before.

What Else Should You Know?
CourtLink integrates with Lex Machina, enabling
you to view analytics on the judge, lawyers, andlaw firms associated with a docket. If you have a
Lex Machina subscription, you can drill down forcharts to better understand a judge or law firm.

Other Notable Features
CourtLink’s home page enables you to run
keyword searches for court documents and/or
dockets across all jurisdictions or those you
specify. If you just want to find a specific case, youcan enter its docket number. Other options include
searching by litigant, attorney, law firm, or judge.
CourtLink will notify you if a court’s docket doesn’t
support a particular criteria.

Most important is the new
notification system. CourtLink
Tracks notify you about new
docket filings on cases you’re
tracking, and CourtLink Alerts
notify you about new lawsuits
and other litigation activity
based on your saved searches.

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Meet Neil J. Squillante
Neil J. Squillante is the founder and publisher of TechnoLawyer, an award-winning networkof free email newsletters for lawyers and law office administrators. Many consider
TechnoLawyer newsletters the only ones they need. A Fastcase 50 award winner, Neil has along track record of inventing successful advertising and publishing technologies and related
best practices. Previously, Neil practiced commercial litigation at Am Law 100 firm Willkie
Farr & Gallagher. He received his J.D. from UCLA School of Law and his B.A. from Duke
University. At UCLA, Neil served as a Managing Editor of UCLA Law Review.

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