Legal Dockets Online: Legal Research

Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Legal Research Blogs

OR PHONE (866) 635-1838 for Bankruptcy Help, (866) 635-6190 for Divorce,
(866) 635-2689 for Personal Injury or (866) 635-9402 for Criminal Defense

Find a Local Lawyer

Bankruptcy (866) 635-1838
Divorce (866) 635-6190
Personal Injury (866) 635-2689
Criminal Defense (866) 635-9402

Legal Research

Legal Dockets Online

A resource for researchers seeking news and information about electronic filing and public record retrieval. Authored by Paul Bush, who is the President of Professional Law Technologies, LLC - the provider of Legal Dockets Online. He is also an Electronic Services Analyst for New York's Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson.

Post Frequency: 0.5/day

Last Entry: April 13, 2010 at 17:36:00

Reed Elsevier to Acquire ChoicePoint,

Posted on February 21, 2008
Reed Elsevier to Acquire ChoicePoint, Inc. for $4.1 Billion in CashReed Elsevier, the parent company of LexisNexis (which owns Accurint) continues on with their aggressive monopolistic-like acquisition of competing companies. From their press release: Reed Elsevier to acquire ChoicePoint for a total cost of $4...

Free PACER Federal Court Filing

Posted on February 04, 2008
Free PACER Federal Court Filing RepositoryI stumbled upon this interesting site, pacer.resource.org, which is run by public.resource.org, an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The premise is that as federal court filings are purchased from PACER by the public, they can then be "recycled" by everyone on the web, by uploading them into a free shared database...

Illinois Supreme Court Now Offering

Posted on January 29, 2008
Illinois Supreme Court Now Offering Oral Argument Video and AudioThe court reports: On-Demand video of oral arguments before the Illinois Supreme Court is available in Windows Media format. Audio is available in MP3 format. Audio podcasts are also available...

All U.S. District Courts Now Using

Posted on January 06, 2008
All U.S. District Courts Now Using CM/ECF, With the Addition of the Western District of WisconsinAlthough not quite ready to accept ECFs yet, finally, the last of 94 federal district courts, the Western District of Wisconsin, has began using CM/ECF. It has been a long road in this process beginning many years ago...

To access this complete feed in the blog feed reader login or register for free.

Maine State Courts Inch Towards

Posted on January 03, 2008
Maine State Courts Inch Towards Online AccessKennebecjournal.mainetoday.com reports: The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has assembled an eight-member working group, led by Justice Andrew Mead of Bangor, to come up with a plan for putting court documents online while ensuring that confidential pieces -- such as Social Security numbers and medical records -- remain confidential...

LexisNexis Courtlink Sued in Georgia

Posted on December 28, 2007
LexisNexis Courtlink Sued in Georgia for its File & Serve FeesLaw.com reports on December 13 plaintiffs attorney Steven J. Newton filed a potential class action alleging that File and Serve is illegal. The defendants are LexisNexis Courtlink Inc., Fulton County State Court Chief Clerk Mark N...

The PACER U.S. Party Case Index

Posted on December 11, 2007
The PACER U.S. Party Case Index Now Includes All Federal District and Bankruptcy CourtsSo what federal courts are currently not available on the USPCI?U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, SECOND CIRCUITU.S. COURT OF APPEALS, FIFTH CIRCUITU.S. COURT OF APPEALS, SEVENTH CIRCUITU...

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th

Posted on December 06, 2007
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Now Using CM/ECFSo far they just have the "CM" in place, with the "ECF" still under development. The following is posted on their site:On November 13, 2007, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit implemented the Appellate Case Management Electronic Case Filing System (CM/ECF)...

Free Access to New Jersey Superior

Posted on December 05, 2007
Free Access to New Jersey Superior Court Dockets for Attorneys with E-Filing AccountsThe New Jersey Judiciary reports: Effective immediately, attorneys who are registered users of JEFIS have access to ACMS for information on DC docket-type cases free of charge...

PACER U.S. Party/Case Index Video

Posted on December 04, 2007
PACER U.S. Party/Case Index Video Tutorial on The Virtual ChaseSit back and watch the USPCI demo here. TVC reports: We are experimenting with audio and video for research training purposes. Currently, you will find MP3 audio files for select research articles...

Useful Federal Court Electronic

Posted on November 30, 2007
Useful Federal Court Electronic Filing TipsThe Lawyer's Right Hand outlines some basic but important concepts including picking the correct event, filing proposed orders, dealing with certificates of service, naming attachments, and good docketing practices...

Privacy Rules for Federal Court

Posted on November 27, 2007
Privacy Rules for Federal Court Filing and Electronic Access Firming UpThe Federal Judiciary Reports: New rules providing privacy protection for case files posted online in the federal district, bankruptcy and appellate courts are scheduled to take effect December 1, 2007...

Travis County, TX District Court

Posted on November 25, 2007
Travis County, TX District Court Among the Leaders in E-FilingStatesman.com reports: Rather quietly, the office of district courts in Travis County recently saw its 20,000th court case filed electronically, scanned and stored its millionth page and collected its millionth dollar in electronic filing fees...

Keyloggers Infiltrate Pacer and

Posted on November 24, 2007
Keyloggers Infiltrate Pacer and CM/ECF UsersThe U.S. District Court for the District of Utah reports: The threat of keylogging continues and CM/ECF users are not immune. According to a recent internal memo, over 100 PACER and several dozen CM/ECF filer accounts have been compromised by keyloggers this year nationwide...

Sacramento Superior Court E-Filing

Posted on November 14, 2007
Sacramento Superior Court E-Filing and Access Begins; Statewide System by 2012Although a case index and online probate filings have been available for some time, the court has expanded to now include electronic filing and online document retrieval for civil cases...

Free Access to PACER Now Available

Posted on November 09, 2007
Free Access to PACER Now Available at 16 Libraries in 14 StatesThe Federal Judiciary reports: Free public access to federal court records is available at 16 libraries in 14 states under a joint pilot project of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts and the Government Printing Office...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

Posted on November 07, 2007
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Will Now Accept Emergency E-Mail Filings in Death Penalty CasesChron.com reports: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals said Tuesday it will accept emergency e-mail filings in death penalty cases in an effort to avoid a repeat of the nationally controversial execution of Michael Richard...

Could Electronic Case Filing Have

Posted on October 30, 2007
Could Electronic Case Filing Have Saved Michael Richard's Life? Part IIDallasnews.com reports: More than 300 members of the Texas bar joined a petition last week asking Judge Keller's court to adopt modern procedures and allow e-mailed filings in death penalty cases...

The PACER Quarterly Newsletter

Posted on October 17, 2007
The PACER Quarterly Newsletter is AvailableOf interest: As reported previously, the Digital Audio Pilot Project was launched in August and includes Bankruptcy Courts for ALND, ME, NCED and District Courts for NE and PAED.This pilot will last 6-12 months and cost only $...

Could Electronic Case Filing Have

Posted on October 12, 2007
Could Electronic Case Filing Have Saved Michael Richard's Life?Law.com reports: Twenty Texas lawyers have joined in a complaint to be filed with the State Commission on Judicial Conduct against Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller for closing the CCA clerk's office at 5 p...

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th

Posted on October 09, 2007
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th and 10th Circuit Go Live on CM/ECFSo far they just have the "CM" in place, with the "ECF" still under development. The following are notices posted on each of these court's websites:The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Sixth Circuit have begun using the Federal Judiciary's Case Management-Electronic Case Files computer system know as CM-ECF...

Madison County, MS to Begin State

Posted on October 04, 2007
Madison County, MS to Begin State Court E-Filing PilotThe Madison County Journal reports: Madison County has been chosen to conduct a pilot program that will determine whether electronic filings systems used by federal courts (CM/ECF) in Mississippi can also be utilized in state courts...

Wisconsin's Democratic State Lawmakers

Posted on October 03, 2007
Wisconsin's Democratic State Lawmakers Trying to Stop Citizens from Viewing State Court Records OnlineThe Wisconsin State Journal Reports: The opponents of open records are at it again. This time, four Democratic state lawmakers are trying to stop ordinary citizens from viewing Wisconsin court records online...

Bronx County Civil Court Records

Posted on September 27, 2007
Bronx County Civil Court Records Now AvailableIn addition to Auburn City Court, Kings County Civil Court, and Queens County Civil Court, New York's UCS WebCivil Local database now includes the Bronx. more on this database

Transcripts of Federal Court Proceedings

Posted on September 18, 2007
Transcripts of Federal Court Proceedings Nationwide To Be Available On CM/ECFThe Federal Judiciary Reports: The Judicial Conference of the United States today voted to make transcripts of federal district and bankruptcy court proceedings available online through the Judiciary's Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system...

PACER's Popularity Continues to

Posted on September 14, 2007
PACER's Popularity Continues to Increase Resulting in Court Staff ChangesThe Federal Judiciary Reports: The success of the federal judiciary's Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) is well documented: Hundreds of millions of pages of court documents retrieved online each year by customers who numbers are approaching 750,000...

The Federal Judiciary is Seeking

Posted on September 11, 2007
The Federal Judiciary is Seeking Comments on Internet Access to Criminal Case Plea AgreementsUscourts.gov reports: The Court Administration and Case Management Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States is studying these issues so the Conference can develop policy guidance for the federal courts...

New Jersey State Court E-Filing

Posted on September 03, 2007
New Jersey State Court E-Filing and Public Record Access ProgressingNj.com reports: New Jersey's digital courthouse is a work in progress.Through the Internet, you can pay a traffic ticket or watch a state Supreme Court argument. But you can't look up criminal records or divorce cases...

Related Law Bulletins

Update on AILF's Legal Action Center Visa Bulletin Litigation (Updated 7/10/07)
The following is the latest update from AILF regarding its pening ...

The Immigrant Legal Resource Center Legislative Forecast
The ILRC Forecast on Immigration ReformJudith Golub, Executive Dir...

The Christian Legal Society and "discrimation": Response to Susan
In response to Susan's post, I'm inclined to think that, yes, the ...

Stacy Scnheider Legal Commentator Apprentice

Catholic Legal Theory and life and death
Tom Berg’s question regarding the propriety or not of capital pu...