Free Law Project Press Kit and Logos
Imagine a world where every American can access the law freely and easily, regardless of income or background. Free Law Project, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is turning this vision into reality. We leverage technology, data, and advocacy to make legal information accessible to all, breaking down barriers that have traditionally kept the law out of reach for many.
Since our inception in 2010, Free Law Project has grown into a cornerstone of the legal ecosystem. We now provide a range of innovative services, including CourtListener, the RECAP Suite, and Bots.law. These platforms, alongside our numerous open-source tools for data collection and analysis, empower millions of users—from journalists and academics to everyday Americans.
Free Law Project is more than just a service provider; we are critical infrastructure in the legal ecosystem. Our work is supported by individual donations, private foundation grants, corporate donors, and partnerships with tech startups. Together, we are reshaping the legal landscape to be more open, transparent, and equitable.
Our Offerings
Free Law Project has a variety of databases and tools that are publicly available, free, and searchable on our website. Learn more about our offerings:
- CourtListener is a legal research website used by over 500,000 people each week.
- RECAP Suite is a collection of tools for working with federal court filings. Tens of thousands of users, including journalists, academics, and lawyers, rely on our RECAP browser extension.
- Bots.law is a system for keeping up with important court cases.
- We host a number of Open Source Tools so that others benefit from our work. These tools scrape court websites, extract legal citations, find bad redactions, and extract text from documents.
- We have vast collections of legal information that we curate into open datasets.
- Our data services make our data usable by dozens other organizations and hundreds of researchers. Our APIs and webhooks are the backbone of legal innovation and are used throughout the legal technology sector.
For a deeper dive on CourtListener features, check out our Guide for Librarians, where we share instructions, video tutorials and more.
Statistics & Impact
Some of our accomplishments include:
- CourtListener is one of the largest open case law databases globally, with over 10 million court opinions dating from the 1600s to today.
- The RECAP Archive, our biggest dataset, contains information about more than 400 million federal court documents.
- Created the most extensive oral argument research tool on the Internet with millions of minutes of searchable audio.
- Maintain a groundbreaking database of financial investments held by federal judges.
- Empowered Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism via our data on judicial financial Disclosures.
- Regularly exceed 40 thousand users and 1 million downloads per day.
You can learn more about our recent accomplishments in our 2025 Annual Letter.
You can also check CourtListener’s homepage for statistics that reflect the most recent days and weeks.
Advocacy
Free Law Project is engaged in a number of advocacy initiatives, including:
- Led the passage of the Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act, enabling transparency of federal judges' investments.
- Ongoing advocacy to improve the federal court public filing system and extend FOIA to the judicial branch.
- Encouraging the adoption of Neutral Citations by courts so the public can immediately, easily, and permanently reference legal decisions from the moment they are published on a court's website.
Testimonials
We asked our users to share how they’ve been impacted by Free Law Project. Here are a few testimonials:
"I teach a course on Race and the Law to college students. CourtListener makes it MUCH easier for them to find relevant court cases without having to use cumbersome, expensive subscription databases. Thank you for making these materials publicly accessible—as they should be."
"CourtListener has facilitated the democratization of law, for myself, and no doubt many more."
"It is so nice to have a resource that anyone can access, anyone can easily search. The learning curve for seeking out the individual court pages & PACER is steep for people who are new to court content. Your teams & dedication keep us learning, growing & thriving by breaking down barriers to justice for the average person."
"I'm a civil rights activist in Montgomery, Alabama and CourtListener helps me access and keep track of important cases."
"This year it has helped allow me to track cases challenging the Trump administration…I still use PACER for my own cases (with RECAP turned on, of course), but CourtListener has made it possible to closely follow key filings in cases that have significance beyond the narrow area of...law in which I practice. Thanks!"
Where to Next?
Some initiatives we're prioritizing:
- Creation of an open-source modular citator to help lawyers and researchers verify whether case law remains valid.
- Partnership with courts for a pilot program of an open-source litigant portal that will support self-represented litigants.
- Assist reporters through the development of open-source tools and help with research for story leads.
- Expand our database to include filings from the Supreme Court and multiple states.
- Upgrade and expand the functionality of the RECAP browser extension used by tens of thousands of people.
- Continued refinement of our tools, interface, and functionality to ensure that
- Provide support to legal advocates as they fight to bridge the justice gap.
Team, Press & Presentations
Learn more about our team members.
Explore our recent contributions to the discourse on open legal data, court access, and justice technology on our press and presentations page.
Logos
These are the official logos and images of Free Law Project for use in articles, blog posts, or printed material. These are available according to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
The official logos for our smaller projects are also available in our logos repository as svg and ai files, and we're happy to make custom images as needed — just let us know.
