Lex Machina provides lawyers with facts on which to base opinions – the core element of good lawyering. Lawyers can now predict the behaviors and outcomes that different legal strategies will produce and craft successful strategies to win cases and close business Lex Machina combines data and software to provide the winning edge in the highly competitive business and practice of law. We call these insights Legal Analytics® because analytics involves the discovery and communication of meaningful patterns in data. We mine litigation data, revealing insights never before available about judges, lawyers, parties, and the subjects of the cases themselves, culled from millions of pages of litigation information. With Lex Machina, lawyers can combine insights gleaned from bottom-up data with traditional top-down controlling authority found in statutes, rules and court opinions. It’s new, it’s unorthodox and it’s extremely valuable.