[1][2] The Clearinghouse makes its information and documents available at no cost to policy-makers, researchers, advocates, teachers, students, and the general public.

[3][4] With 15,000 monthly visitors, it is the leading Internet source for the thousands of cases it covers, allowing the public unprecedented access to case documents, including court complaints and settlements.

It posts both historical documents, like the original court complaint and the trial transcript from Brown v. Board of Education, and more modern ones, like the settlement agreement from Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank, a fair lending case President Barack Obama litigated in the 1990s.

It has received funding from the National Science Foundation[1] and acknowledgement in newspaper editorial pages.

[3][4] It describes the problem on its website: According to its website: Users can search for cases by case-type, facility, court, location, court, issue, lawyer, or judge, or any combination.