With CourtLink you can easily conduct court docket searches, obtain documents filed in prior cases, stay on top of new activity in existing cases and uncover new civil litigation filings of interest to you.

Quickly develop complete strategic profiles of your opposition

With 20 years of court records data, CourtLink® Strategic Profiles will help you gain insight into opposing counsel’s practice-area experience, preferred strategies and history with specific judges. Research the history of opposing litigants to uncover prior similar cases and discern patterns of case resolution.

Gather strategic intelligence on judges assigned to your cases
With CourtLink judicial profiles, you can learn whether the judge assigned to your case has substantial or limited experience in a particular area of law, and learn how the judge has ruled in similar cases in the past.

Receive automatic alerts about any new litigation involving subject matter or people of interest
CourtLink® Alerts deliver automatic e-mail notices of relevant court activity. Base your alerts on specific types of legal subject matter in federal appellate or state courts, or on litigant name, attorney/firm or judge.

Stay on top of new activity in your existing cases
CourtLink® Track provides automatic e-mail notification of new activity in existing cases of interest to you so that you can stay on top of what’s happening in your firm’s own cases and keep abreast of events in other cases that may impact your practice areas or that of your clients.

Easily order documents from any federal or state court nationwide
With the CourtLink® Document Retrieval Service, you can order court documents from any federal or state court nationwide, placing your order online through CourtLink or over the phone.

Conduct due diligence
CourtLink® Search locates court dockets that reveal corporate litigation activity involving existing or potential business alliances, alerting you to potential conflicts or risks.

Identify targeted new business opportunities
Use CourtLink® Strategic Profiles to research potential prospects and find opportunities to expand your relationship with current clients by profiling their business litigation needs and matching them to your areas of expertise.

Gather the critical litigation intelligence you need to gain and sustain a real strategic edge in any case with powerful, simple-to-use CourtLink tools:

• CourtLink® Strategic Profiles
  Uncover the civil litigation history of an opposing party, attorney or law firm and/or the judge assigned to a case to develop compelling case strategies.
  
  • Judge Profiles: Determine a presiding judge’s experience in a specific area of law or how the judge has handled similar cases.
  • Attorney Profiles: Learn whether the attorney has argued similar cases or before a specific judge and see prior strategies employed, including case resolution.
  • Litigant Profiles: Research the corporate litigation history of your client or the opposing litigant to uncover participation in prior similar cases and discern patterns of case resolution.


• CourtLink® Court Docket Search
  With CourtLink, you can search over 200 million federal, state and local court records at once. Search by litigant, attorney, law firm, jurisdiction, nature of suit and keyword to find relevant past and present business litigation activity.


• Patent Search
  Search on a patent number to get a list of cases involving that patent number. Search on a patent class or subclass to get a list of related cases.


• Document Finder CourtLink exclusive!
  Search for documents listed within dockets to pinpoint relevant work product, key rulings and other hard-to-find litigation intelligence. Locate the relevant work product of opposing counsel, as well as key ruling information on the presiding judge.


• CourtLink® Track
  Be among the first to know about new developments in existing cases with automatic e-mail notification of new activity in existing cases of interest to you. Easily find changes to tracked dockets with new highlighting enhancements. Customize your case tracking to notify you of new activity on a regular schedule.


• CourtLink® Alert
  Stay on top of any new commercial litigation involving your clients, and find out when opposing parties or presiding judges are involved in new litigation by setting up an alert on a litigant, attorney or subject matter to receive automatic-notification of newly filed cases.


• CourtLink® Document Retrieval Service
  Order documents from any federal or state court nationwide from the CourtLink Document Retrieval Service by placing your order online or over the phone

• CourtLink Document Retrieval Overview (PDF, 241K)
• CourtLink Litigation At-a-Glance (PDF, 329K)
• CourtLink Quick Guide (PDF, 812K)

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