Lex Machina has announced the expansion of their state law analytics offering with the addition of the Sacramento County Superior Court (California) and Clark County (Nevada) which covers Las Vegas. This adds a total of 171,480 
new cases bringing the total state case analytics to 1,126,722 new cases . The state law analytics provides lawyers with insights into judges, court, law firms, attorneys and parties.
The new state court analytics modules are like the Lex Machina federal court analytics products, built using a proprietary Attorney Data Engine and other natural language processing technology, According to the press release “Lex Machina is the only legal analytics provider able to utilize state court documents to provide comprehensive coverage about the behavior of judges, law firms, attorneys, and parties in state courts.”
In an earlier post about Lex Machina state law analytics products I described the unique challenges of taming state court data. “each state court system the product development team had to get “under the hood” to understand the idiosyncrasies of docket system and data collection practices.”
According to the press release “Lex Machina worked closely with the court systems to understand their docketing practices and create analytics that reflect the unique aspects of individual courts. The two new state courts – Sacramento County Superior Court (88,000+ cases) and Clark County (Las Vegas) District Court (82,000+ cases) – each have their own data collection infrastructure and nuances. These modules, and thus the substantial case numbers, cover four years of court activity beginning with cases filed January 1, 2016 or later.”
Why Sacramento and Clark County?
The Sacramento and Clark County courts were chosen because they represent important data sets in the universe of
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