Docket Alarm Introduces API Endpoints for SALI

Docket Alarm now features new ways to get more from your data with SALI tags.

SALI, or Standards Advancement for the Legal Industry, is an organization promoting a universal, interoperable system for tagging legal cases and documents.


Docket Alarm’s API can now take advantage of SALI tags through two new AI endpoints - Area of Law and Forum and Venues The Area of Law endpoint takes a docket’s case type - whether it is state, federal, or an agency - and outputs the relevant SALI Area of Law tag.


The Forum and Venues endpoint works similarly - it takes a docket court field from Docket Alarm and converts it to the appropriate SALI tag.


These new endpoints work best with our recently launched integration into Foundation. With these new tools, you can easily populate your entire Foundation instance with SALI tags for case type and area of law and venue in just minutes!

Docket Alarm's New Entity Normalizer Endpoint Overhauls Search Precision and Recall

Searching for a company’s litigation record is rarely as simple as entering a name and clicking “search.” Companies may be listed on dockets under dozens of variations— parent corporations, subsidiaries, business units, misspellings and more.

Missing relevant search results is not the only concern either. Searches for common business names may yield overly-inclusive results, including false-positives for “Apple Orchards Inc.” when intending to only locate results for “Apple” Computers.


Though the use of fuzzy searching can improve results, it never fully addresses the issue as it faces the same tradeoff between precision and recall as a well-crafted boolean search.


Docket Alarm is excited to announce a solution— our latest AI endpoint, the Entity Normalizer.

Introducing Customizable Document Naming Conventions in Docket Alarm Alerts!

We are excited to introduce a new feature for our customers: customizable document titles in Docket Alarm alerts. This new feature allows you to tailor the titles of documents attached to alerts, facilitating seamless integration with your document management systems and automated workflows.

With customizable document titles, you can include various fields such as:

  • Court Name
  • Case Title
  • Docket Number
  • Document Title
  • Exhibit Number
  • Filing Number
  • Filing Date

This flexibility allows you to control the length of file names and helps streamline the document management process, making it more efficient and organized.

To learn more, reach out to your account representative or contact support at support@docketalarm.com.


Introducing the Billing Rates Extractor: Uncover Attorney Hourly Rates with Ease

Docket Alarm is thrilled to announce the latest addition to our growing suite of OpenAI-powered endpoints: the Billing Rates Extractor. This game-changing tool enables users to quickly and easily access the hourly rates charged by attorneys, empowering legal professionals to make informed decisions and stay ahead of the competition.

The Billing Rates Extractor leverages the power of OpenAI's advanced language processing capabilities to extract attorney hourly rates from Docket Alarm's vast database.

Introducing Complaint Summarization and Cause of Action Extraction Tools

Docket Alarm is proud to present our latest tools powered by artificial intelligence -the Complaint Summarizer and Cause of Action Extractor endpoints for the Docket Alarm API. These tools allow users to quickly and easily answer two of the most important questions present in any lawsuit - what are the facts alleged in the complaint, and what laws are alleged to have been broken?


With these endpoints, users can instantly understand what a case is about, and what types of claims are at stake.

Save Time and Effort Spent Crafting Queries Using the Smart Search Beta API Endpoint

Crafting precise search queries can be a time-consuming and delicate process, even for the most sophisticated of legal researchers. The beta launch of Docket Alarm’s new Smart Search endpoint seeks to streamline this process while optimizing the accessibility of even the most granular litigation data.

The Smart Search tool converts plain language instructions into robust queries, perfectly tailored to Docket Alarm’s search algorithm.

Docket Alarm's Case Matcher API: Find Cases Effortlessly with Limited Details

It can feel impossible to locate quality litigation data when crafting search queries from partial case details. Without a full docket number and court details, targeted data points can easily evade detection—obscured by the ever-rising tide of new cases and filings. However, Docket Alarm's latest API innovation, the Case Matcher endpoint, harnesses advanced language models and search engineering to match limited details with actual dockets from our database, making the process of finding cases more efficient than ever.

Using the Case Matcher endpoint is straightforward.

Docket Alarm Reaches New Milestone: 800 Million Documents Now Available in Database

We are thrilled to share a significant milestone in the evolution of Docket Alarm — our database now houses over 800 million documents and dockets, marking a momentous expansion that reinforces our commitment to delivering the most comprehensive legal research tool available. This achievement not only highlights our continuous growth but also our unwavering dedication to enhancing the research capabilities of attorneys and legal professionals across the globe.

We plan to add more state coverage in the coming weeks, after recently adding North Carolina and Oklahoma state to the database, further enriching our database and ensuring that our users have access to the most up-to-date and comprehensive legal information available.

Explore ourcomplete coverage on our website.

For more information or assistance with your subscription, please contact our sales team at sales@docketalarm.com.

Motion Analytics Expands to New Cities

Docket Alarm’s state analytics have expanded to new jurisdictions, including major cities.

Pleading tags, launched for federal courts in 2022, apply universal identifiers to docket entries, making it easier to quickly read a docket sheet. The pleading tags also power motion analytics, allowing users to learn how likely a particular motion type is to succeed.


The newly launched jurisdictions include:

  • District of Columbia

    • Superior Court

  • Georgia

    • Fulton County

  • Texas

    • Harris County


We look forward to continuing to expand our analytics offerings to state courts throughout the year!


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Docket Alarm Expands California State Coverage

Exciting news from Docket Alarm: we've expanded our coverage in California! We now cover Mariposa, Mendocino, Shasta and Yolo counties, which includes the metropolitan of Sacramento. With these additions, Docket Alarm now covers a total of 31 counties in California, bringing us closer to complete coverage in the state.

This expansion brings our total county coverage to over 1,270. Stay updated with Docket Alarm as we continue to expand our coverage.


Explore our complete coverage on our website. For more information or assistance with your subscription, please contact our sales team at sales@docketalarm.com.
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Docket Alarm Expands Coverage to North Carolina

Docket Alarm is thrilled to announce our expansion into the Tar Heel state: North Carolina. This addition covers 17 counties, including key cities like Raleigh and Charlotte. This expansion provides docket and document access to Superior and District Court data dating back to 2017.

The counties now covered include Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Harnett, Hyde, Johnston, Lee, Martin, Mecklenburg, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, Wake, and Washington.

Users can leverage our platform to search and analyze cases based on various parameters such as attorney names, party names, case types, judges, and more.

With the addition of North Carolina, Docket Alarm now has access in 36 states and over 1,355 counties.

Stay tuned for future updates as Docket Alarm continues to expand its coverage.

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Motion Analytics in Wisconsin

Docket Alarm has expanded Pleading Tags and Motion Analytics in state courts, adding coverage statewide in Wisconsin.

Pleading tag apply universal identifiers to docket entries, making it easier to quickly read a docket sheet. The pleading tags also power motion analytics, allowing users to learn how likely a particular motion type is to succeed.

The new Wisconsin coverage is the latest in our expanding library of state court analytics.

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Docket Alarm Unveils OpenAI-Powered API Endpoints

Docket Alarm's latest update streamlines workflows and enhances decision-making by introducing the power of OpenAI’s models to our API. Beta access is now live for our first two OpenAI endpoints, Judgment Extraction and Ask a Docket.

Judgment Extraction:
This endpoint returns judgment information from any case in Docket Alarm’s library. Simply enter a docket number and corresponding court name. When judgment data is located, the Judgment Extraction endpoint retrieves verdict data, including:
  • Judgment Winner
  • Winner Type
  • Judgment Interest
  • Attorney’s Fees
  • Judgment Costs
  • Total Judgment Amount
  • Judgment Type
Ask a Docket:
This endpoint harnesses language processing to extract structured values from Docket Alarm's database.
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Motion Analytics in Florida and California

Docket Alarm has expandedPleading Tags and Motion Analytics in state courts, adding coverage in key counties in Florida and California.


Pleading tags, launched for federal courts in 2022, apply universal identifiers to docket entries, making it easier to quickly read a docket sheet. The pleading tags also power motion analytics, allowing users to learn how likely a particular motion type is to succeed.


We are pleased to announce the newest additions:

  • Florida

    • Broward County

    • Duval County

    • Hillsborough County

    • Miami-Dade County

    • Pinellas County

  • California

    • Alameda County

    • Riverside County

    • San Diego County

    • San Francisco County

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Docket Alarm Now Offers Direct API Connections to Litera Foundation

Docket Alarm’s latest integration offers the unparalleled capability for API subscribers to seamlessly connect public litigation data to Litera’s Foundation knowledge management platform.

This service can stream our vast library and feeds of IP and litigation data directly into Foundation databases. This data stream enriches internal records and opens a world of possibilities, including options to:
  • Add complaint summaries and extracted claims from newly filed cases.
  • Build comprehensive client views to highlight growth opportunities.
  • Expand internal drafts with arguments and authorities from winning briefs.
  • Import extracted judgment information from historical records.
Our solutions engineers lead complete, bespoke integrations and offer options for self-hosting.
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