Legal analytics company Lex Machina — which LexisNexis acquired in November — is introducing a new feature today that is designed to correct and improve upon the information PACER provides about attorneys of record in federal district court lawsuits.

Called the Attorney Data Engine, it leverages various data sources extracted from PACER to correct the data that PACER does provide about attorneys.

Owen Byrd, Lex Machina’s general counsel and chief evangelist, told me in a recent conversation that PACER is often inaccurate and sometimes flat wrong in its listings of lead counsel.

Lex Machina analyzed IP dockets in New Jersey and Delaware and found that they failed to include 46 percent of attorneys who have worked on those cases, Byrd said.

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