LexisNexis Legal & Professional is today unveiling a major reengineering of its CourtLink federal and state docket research product that moves it to the Lexis Advance platform and that gives users more options for searching dockets while reducing the steps involved in doing so.
The move also means that users will be able to access all their LexisNexis products using a single sign-on, track all of their messaging from LexisNexis products in a single location, and unify their billing and invoicing for LexisNexis products.
Although now integrated within Lexis Advance, the product remains available as a standalone offering. Current CourtLink subscribers will be able to migrate to the new platform without any change to their subscription plans or pricing.
However, the reengineering means that CourtLink will be more directly integrated with other LexisNexis products — such as Lex Machina for docket analytics and TotalPatent One for patent filings — so that CourtLink customers will benefit from also having subscriptions to those services.
All alerts now appear on a single page within the Lexis Advance platform.
The new CourtLink has a much-simplified interface, reducing the number of steps required to conduct a search and allowing users to apply search criteria and filters from a single screen.
Formerly in CourtLink, for example, to search by docket number, you first had to pick a specific court. Now, just enter the docket number and search, without having to pick a court. The results will show all matches from all courts. Also, it finds matches regardless of the form of the docket number (such as use or not of a hyphen within the number).
Search results can be narrowed using various filters, including by court, case status, and nature of suit. For federal dockets, CourtLink uses the federal court’s nature-of-suit codes, but for state dockets,
