Docket Alarm, Inc.
Headquarters
New York, NYFounded
2011Employees
11-50Funding
AcquiredProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
8.0/10Website
docketalarm.com/
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About Docket Alarm, Inc.
Docket Alarm, Inc. is a legal research and analytics company founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, NY. The platform aggregates hundreds of millions of court dockets and documents from U.S. federal courts, state courts, and specialty tribunals including the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and the International Trade Commission (ITC).
The platform provides attorneys and legal professionals with tools to search case documents, monitor litigation activity, receive real-time docket alerts, and analyze litigation outcomes. Its analytics capabilities allow users to assess judge and attorney track records, identify litigation trends, and evaluate case outcomes across jurisdictions. The service is used primarily by law firms and corporate legal departments for litigation strategy and competitive intelligence.
Docket Alarm was acquired by Fastcase, a legal research company, in 2021. Fastcase itself was subsequently acquired by HBR Consulting in 2022, placing Docket Alarm within a broader legal services portfolio. Prior to acquisition, the company operated as an independent, privately held entity; specific funding details were not publicly disclosed.
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Competitive Landscape
Who Docket Alarm, Inc. competes with, and how they differ.
Specializes in state trial court data (the largest such dataset) with judge/attorney analytics and an agentic ChatGPT/Claude interface; Docket Alarm covers federal plus state plus PTAB/TTAB but is less state-court-specialized.
Runs Lex Machina and CourtLink for litigation analytics and docket alerts inside a much larger legal-research suite, competing on Docket Alarm's core docket-tracking niche at enterprise pricing.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Bundles Westlaw Litigation Analytics and Monitor Suite docket tracking into the Westlaw subscription, competing on incumbent scale and research-suite breadth rather than Docket Alarm's standalone focus.
5 products reviewed on TopReviewedCaptures federal and state court filings in real time and organizes them into firm-wide litigation workflows and alerts, competing directly with Docket Alarm on docket monitoring rather than analytics depth.
Company Timeline
Key milestones in Docket Alarm, Inc.'s history, with sources.
- Milestone
Docket Alarm brand retired into Clio Docket / Clio Work
The standalone Docket Alarm brand was retired and relaunched as "Clio Docket," then folded into Clio Work, Clio's AI workspace giving access to more than 1 billion court filings -- described by Clio as "Docket Alarm's next chapter."
lawnext.com - Milestone
Clio completes $1B acquisition of vLex
Clio closed its $1 billion acquisition of vLex -- Docket Alarm's parent since 2023 -- alongside a $500M Series G at a $5B valuation, bringing Docket Alarm under Clio's ownership.
lawnext.com - Milestone
Founder Michael Sander departs Docket Alarm
Michael Sander left Docket Alarm, the litigation-analytics platform he founded roughly 12 years earlier, seven months after the Fastcase-vLex merger. Daniel Ivtsan, formerly of Gavelytics and UniCourt, was named head of product for Docket Alarm.
lawnext.com - Milestone
Parent Fastcase merges with vLex
Fastcase, Docket Alarm's owner since 2018, merged with global legal-research company vLex (backed by Oakley Capital and Bain Capital), bringing Docket Alarm into vLex's portfolio.
reuters.com - Launch
Docket Alarm adds GPT-3.5 filing summaries
Docket Alarm incorporated GPT-3.5 to auto-generate summaries of PDF litigation filings as users review docket sheets, one of the earlier generative-AI features among docket-tracking tools.
lawnext.com - Partnership
Docket Alarm integrates with Courtroom Insight
An integration between Docket Alarm and Courtroom Insight connected Docket Alarm's litigation document database to Courtroom Insight's judge and expert-witness profiles.
lawnext.com - Milestone
Docket Alarm expands to 11 state courts, integrates with Fastcase research
Following the Fastcase acquisition, Docket Alarm expanded coverage from federal courts and 3 states to 11 states (CA, CT, MN, NM, NY, OR, PA, SC, TX, WA, WY) and began linking cited cases in docket documents directly to Fastcase case-law research.
lawnext.com - Acquisition
Fastcase acquires Docket Alarm
Legal research company Fastcase acquired Docket Alarm, the docket-alerting and litigation-analytics platform founded by patent litigator Michael Sander. Sander joined Fastcase as managing director of Docket Alarm and director of Fastcase Analytics; existing subscribers retained access via docketalarm.com.
lawnext.com - Launch
Docket Alarm launches PTAB analytics platform
Docket Alarm released an analytics and prediction tool covering tens of thousands of Patent Trial and Appeal Board filings, letting attorneys benchmark outcomes by judge and technology center and forecast IPR/CBM proceeding results.
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