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Free Law Project is the leading nonprofit using technology, data, and advocacy to make the legal ecosystem more equitable and competitive.
Our Impact
- Downloads Served
- 800+ million
- Pages of Court Data
- 250+ million
- API Requests Served
- 100+ million
- Emails Sent
- 5.4+ million
- Monthly Visitors
- 2+ million
- Government Users
- 1,000+
The RECAP Suite helps you liberate and work with court documents.
RECAP Extensions
If you use PACER, install RECAP into your browser. Anything you buy from PACER goes into the RECAP Archive.
Anything somebody else buys is yours free, directly in PACER.
Search Alerts
You'll automatically get notified whenever there's a new match in our PACER archive for your saved searches. You can follow topics, people, organizations, types of cases, and more.
Docket Alerts
Set alerts for federal dockets and we'll send you an email whenever there is a new filing in a case in PACER.
CourtListener is our archive of legal opinions, filings, judges, and judicial financial records.
PACER Filings and Dockets
CourtListener has the largest free collection of federal court documents and dockets on the Internet. Our collection grows every day.
Everything we have is fully searchable and accessible on CourtListener.
Opinions Database
CourtListener.com houses an immense collection of searchable orders and opinions.
We gather more opinions from state and federal courts every day, and hope to soon host the first open and comprehensive collection of American case law.
Case Bots
Our bots will send case updates to Slack, Discord, MS Teams, Google Chat, Bluesky or Mastodon. You choose the cases. The bots keep you posted.
Chat Apps
We are building bots for all the popular chat platforms so you can get updates and do research right where you work.
Big Cases Bot
The Big Cases bot follows the most important cases in the country and posts updates on Bluesky and Mastodon.
Little Cases Bot
Create and maintain your own bot for Bluesky or Mastodon that sends updates about cases you think the public should be following.
Legal Advocacy
We work to make the legal system better by changing it from within. Among our initiatives are legislation to make PACER free, early research into a FOIA-like law for the federal judicial branch, court-by-court efforts to open legal data, and pushes to support public access to court records.
We Build Tools
To spur innovation in the legal ecosystem, our work is open source and freely available. These tools give organizations and researchers a launchpad for their innovation. View our tools on GitHub.
APIs and Replication
We provide APIs for opinions, filings, judges, financial disclosures, and more. For power users, we share our entire database, updated in realtime.
X-Ray
Bad redactions reveal client secrets. X-Ray can help find bad redactions at scale, before they wreak havoc on your firm's reputation.
Eyecite
Eyecite uses our database of thousands of reporters to find even the most esoteric legal citations in any block of text.
We Build Datasets
Centuries of legal data needs curation and clean up before it can be used and understood. Unfortunately, this work is done over and over again. Enough. We take raw legal data and make it into open datasets.
Case Law Database
CourtListener has one of the most comprehensive collections of American legal jurisprudence on the Internet.
RECAP Archive Database
The RECAP Archive contains hundreds of millions of docket entries, nearly every federal case, and millions of documents. It grows by thousands of documents each day.
Judge and Disclosure Database
Financial disclosures, appointors, biographical data, schools, jobs, campaign contributions, and more for thousands of state and federal judges.