In a move to accelerate data-driven legal strategies, Lex Machina today introduced Custom Insights Apps™, a new suite of specialized applications that instantly deliver critical litigation information to help attorneys win cases and close business. Leveraging Lex Machina’s award-winning Legal Analytics® platform and underlying data modules, Custom Insights Apps quickly provide customized, data-driven answers for common legal questions, making it even easier to use Legal Analytics.

The first three Custom Insights Apps, which focus on intellectual property cases, are Early Case Assessor, Motion Kickstarter, and Patent Portfolio Evaluator. Future applications will expand into other practice areas and support other legal functions.

“Data and analytics are the future of law,” said Josh Becker, CEO, Lex Machina. “We are deeply committed to improving how lawyers leverage information. Lex Machina’s award-winning Legal Analytics platform has become widely adopted within America’s top law firms and corporate law departments. With our new Custom Insights Apps, we enable attorneys to get answers to strategic questions in seconds – answers which, until recently, may have taken weeks of research to find, if even possible at all.”

With Early Case Assessor, lawyers can quickly assess the threat posed by a new case. By entering the name of the plaintiff and the plaintiff’s law firm, users immediately get an overview of the plaintiff’s litigation history including recently filed cases against other, similar defendants; where the plaintiff typically files suit; how much experience its law firm has; and the kinds of clients they typically represent. They also get access to invaluable resources, such as which attorneys have faced the plaintiff most often.

Motion Kickstarter makes it easy to draft winning motions by helping attorneys compare the arguments and motion styles that have been successful before a specific judge. The attorney can enter a judge’s name and motion type and instantly view the judge’s recent orders on that motion type, as well as the briefing that led up to those orders. Lawyers can then compare granted motions with denied motions to see what has worked and what has not in order to create a winning motion strategy or approach.

Patent Portfolio Evaluator gives attorneys the complete litigation history for an entire patent portfolio in one report. Attorneys can see the district court, PTAB, and ITC cases in which each patent has been litigated, and examine any damages awarded or findings of infringement, invalidity, or unenforceability. This helps attorneys quickly determine whether each patent has been battle-tested by extensive litigation, and understand the results of that litigation to make better-informed patent defense decisions.

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