[4] Lex Machina provides a SaaS product to legal professionals to aid in their practice, research, and business.
Lex Machina initially began in 2006 as a public interest project at Stanford University by Professor Mark Lemley and co-founders George Gregory and Joshua Walker.
[6][7] The name "Lex Machina" is a Latin phrase meaning "law machine" that Walker had used in a research paper he wrote in 2004.
[10] Lex Machina is a legal analytics solution that uses artificial intelligence and technology-assisted human review to deliver case resolutions, damages, remedies, findings, and accurate counsel and party data.
Lex Machina gathers raw information from cases, including downloading millions of court documents, to present the comprehensive and accurate data.