Litigation data

Litigation data covers court cases, dockets, filings, parties, lawyers, judges and outcomes. Law firms use it for business development and case strategy, insurers and lenders for risk assessment, corporates for counterparty due diligence, and investors for litigation finance and event-driven research.

Typical fields

• Case number, court and jurisdiction
• Filing date, case type and nature of suit
• Parties, their roles and normalized entity names
• Attorneys, law firms and judges
• Docket entries and document links
• Status, disposition, and damages or settlement where public

Sources and collection

Data comes from public court records, electronic filing systems, court websites and official gazettes. Coverage depends heavily on jurisdiction: some federal and national systems are well digitized, while many local courts publish little online. Providers collect dockets, extract parties and outcomes, and normalize company names so that one business appears as one entity across all its cases.

Delivery and pricing

Delivered through search platforms, APIs, alerts and bulk files. Pricing depends on jurisdictions covered, historical depth, access to documents and monitoring volume; some court systems also charge per document, which providers may pass on.

Before you buy

• Ask for a coverage map by court and case type, including known gaps.
• Check how parties are normalized and linked to company identifiers.
• Confirm update latency for new filings and docket entries.
• Check how sealed, expunged and corrected records are handled.
• Note that DataStoa does not allow criminal records of identifiable private individuals; civil, commercial and company-level data is the focus here.