Bloomberg Law
Nov. 23, 2015, 9:38 PM UTC

Access to Justice Problem Fueled LexisNexis, Lex Machina Deal

Casey Sullivan

How much does it cost to access federal court documents?

If you went back as far as the year 2000, it would cost around $10 million to purchase all available civil court documents from the U.S. government, according to Mark Lemley, a professor at Stanford Law School who co-founded litigation analytics company Lex Machina.

On Friday, the company Lemley founded in 2010 — first as an academic project called Intellectual Property Litigation Clearinghouse, which later turned into the for-profit Lex Machina — was bought by LexisNexis on undisclosed terms.

Lex Machina mines information about lawyers, judges and parties in patent and other intellectual ...

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