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Overview

Docket Alarm

4.5

(13)

Pricing

Starting at $99.00 per month

About Docket Alarm

Docket Alarm is a cloud-based legal management platform that helps businesses access court records and streamline administrative operations. Using its search functionality, professionals can retrieve case information from federal, bankruptcy, state or intellectual property specialty courts and law agencies.

Key features of Docket Alarm include optical character recognition (OCR), matter management, single sign-on (SSO), event calendar and reporting. It comes with an analytics workbench module, which lets users gain insights into Patent Trial and Appeal Board's (PTAB) activities, judicial profiles or case flows through predictive analytics. Managers can receive automated alerts about new lawsuits, download docket entries and export case information.

Docket Alarm provides an application programming interface (API), which enables organizations to modify the system and integrate it with various third-party applications. Pricing is available on monthly subscriptions and support is extended via

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Docket Alarm Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $99.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$99.00

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Docket Alarm Features

Popular features found in Legal Case Management
Billable & Non-Billable Hours
Calendar Management
Case Notes
Client Portal
Communication Management
Conflict Management
Electronic Signature
Task Management
Trust Accounting
Workflow Management
More features of Docket Alarm
Access Controls/Permissions
Administrative Hearings
Alerts/Notifications
API
Appeals Management
Calendar Sync
Client Management
Customizable Reports
Data Import/Export
Deadline Management
Docket Management
Document Classification
Document Generation
Document Imaging
Document Management
Document Storage
Email Management
For Municipal Courts
Full Text Extraction
Historical Reporting
Keyword Search
Legal Case Management
Metadata Extraction
Microsoft Outlook Integration
Natural Language Search
Optical Character Recognition
Predictive Analytics
Reminders
Reporting & Statistics
Search/Filter
Third-Party Integrations
Timer

Docket Alarm Integrations

Zapier

Clio

Google Calendar

Docket Alarm User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

54%

38%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.5

Value for money

4.3

Customer support

4.5

Functionality

4.3

Have you used Docket Alarm and would like to share your experience with others?

Armin G.

Verified reviewer

Law Practice

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2020

Innovative user-interface for legal research

Generally positive experience.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Nice looking and easy-to-use user interface, extensive databases of legal decisions, nice filters to narrow them, and properly named files when we download.

Cons:

I wish the alerts for new case filings could come faster. At the moment I use Dinger Alerts, which appear to be among the fastest in the industry.

Reasons for switching to Docket Alarm

Free searches are something that Westlaw does not offer. Often times, I need to look up simple legal points, I conducting a research on Westlaw will charge the client.

Idan G.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2020

Avid users of the api to find legal data about individuals

It helps us extend our legal coverage and provides a very useful api access.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The extensive coverage and querying options, the access via api.

Cons:

1. More county courts coverage - especially NY and Massachusetts 2. The ability to filter by dates in the api query - in both pacer and docket alarm. 3. More details in the initial query, so I don't have to get the full case just to find it's not about the person I was looking for. Mainly in Docket Alarm end point.

Verified

Reviewer

Legal Services

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2020

Docket Alarm is Okay

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to use and there are a broad range of cases available

Cons:

Some legal documents have a paywall; I wish that there was some way to inform the user of that before the user clicked on it

Scott L.

Verified reviewer

Legal Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2020

Docket Alarm - Great for Research

Docket Alarm has been beneficial in searching for specific types of cases for clients. It has streamlined the process and delivered better results. The search and alert functionality has been a good way to stay current on cases and topics.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Docket Alarm has provided good coverage of federal cases. It's limited state coverage has proven to be good where available. The feature I like most is the expanded search ability which allows you to narrow down cases or find the exact documents you are looking for with ease. It is a time saver when searching for specific types of cases.

Cons:

There were a few hiccups with downloading information but Docket Alarm's customer service was fast and responsive. They updated me on progress and solved the issue in a timely manner. I couldn't ask for better customer service.

Reasons for choosing Docket Alarm

Cost was a deciding factor.

colleen h.

Verified reviewer

Legislative Office

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2020

Docket Alarm

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Accessing the documents and that they come with the email saves time and resources!

Cons:

nothing at this time it works well for what I use it for

Neil P.

Verified reviewer

Insurance

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2020

Review by Neil

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The software is user friendly. It has helped my office become more efficient

Cons:

The data does not always appear in an easily processable format. Its fine most of the time.

Carlos G.

Used unspecified for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed August 2015

Easy Litigation Alerts for the PTAB and Other Courts

I am a paralegal at Banner Witcoff and have used Docket Alarm for almost a year. My specialty is in the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, a relatively new court set up in Washington D.C. that focuses on inter partes reviews and Covered Business Method reviews. Some of my main responsibilities at work are to keep the attorneys notified of new cases, as well as distribute updates to the team whenever anything occurs in an active case. Before Docket Alarm, the only way to track a case was to go to the Patent Office's website manually, every day, and see if anything new posted to the docket. This was very time consuming and laborious. The patent office's website can be difficult to navigate, and if you need to get updates for a dozen court cases, it could take an hour or more to check each one, download any documents, and distribute them to a team. Docket Alarm makes this process really easy. I just sign up for alerts, and they send me email alerts whenever anything new posts to the docket. The new documents are attached to the email alert, so I do not even need to log in to download anything, I just save the attachment into the team folder. Docket Alarm probably saves me several hours a week of monotonous work, so I can focus on higher level research and trial assistance.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Krassen D.

Verified reviewer

Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2020

Good case retrieval option, but beware of double charges.

Mostly very good, with the exception of the double-charging, which is unfortunately a deal-breaker.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

For a non-frequent user, the per-document fee option is quite useful.

Cons:

I get double-charged for the same document ALL THE TIME. Don’t want to make big fuss about it, as it is possible that I have retrieved the documents twice. But this is extremely unattractive, so I stopped using the service. I will feel more confident to use it if the system remembers what I have retrieved and does not charge me again for the same document. Or any other solution to the problem would be welcome. For now, I am done with it.

Brady C.

Verified reviewer

Law Practice

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2020

Very User Friendly

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Far more user-friendly than PACER; ability to keyword search dockets is a game-changer; very much like how i can tailor/personalize docket email alerts

Cons:

Occasionally takes a long time for PDFs filings to load

Sean M.

Verified reviewer

Writing and Editing

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2020

Easy Research

I would recommend Docket Alarm to anyone in the legal field.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Docket Alarm makes my job of researching the latest ADA cases extremely easy. The layout is easy to use and there are so many court documents for each case making my job of writing a concise legal commentary faster and less stressful!

Cons:

The only problem I had with the software at first was finding certain cases that were older, but there is a date filter that fixes that problem. There is a slight learning curve but in the end the product is incredibly user friendly!

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