Free Law Project Now Offers Free Group Memberships for Legal Services Organizations Legal aid attorneys deserve the same powerful research tools as the most well-resourced firms in the country. Free Law Project is making that possible with a new free group membership tier for nonprofit legal services organizations, giving entire offices full CourtListener access, including API access and unlimited opinion search alerts, at no cost.
Jenifer Whiston June 23, 2026
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AI Tools and Assistants such as Claude Can Now Connect to CourtListener's Full Functionality CourtListener is now available as a new MCP Connector inside Claude and other AI assistants, giving AI agents native access to the full power of CourtListener — case law, PACER data, citation analysis, oral argument transcripts, judge data, and more.
Eri O'Diah May 12, 2026
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Full CourtListener Data Access via API Now Included with Membership Researchers, journalists, developers, and vibe coders can now access the full CourtListener API, including PACER data, with a membership. No contact form. No waiting for approval.
Jenifer Whiston May 7, 2026
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Semantic Search Is Now on CourtListener Search case law using natural language, right from CourtListener. Semantic search is now live on the website!
Rachel Gao May 4, 2026
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Free Law Project Is Scanning America's Case Law Free Law Project is scanning and digitizing millions of pages of published case law reporters, picking up where Harvard Law Library left off, to make CourtListener a complete and authoritative free source of American case law.
William E. Palin April 16, 2026
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Waves of Justice at UC Law SF: When Data Becomes Art UC Law San Francisco unveiled Tidal Wave of Justice, a large-scale installation that transforms legal citation data from CourtListener into a living visual experience.
Jenifer Whiston February 20, 2026
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CourtListener in More Places: What the HeinOnline Integration Signals for Open Legal Data Last week, HeinOnline announced a new case law offering powered by CourtListener. We see this announcement as part of a larger movement: open legal data is becoming recognized as a crucial foundation for legal research, education, and public engagement with the courts.
Jessica Frank December 10, 2025
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Semantic Search API Now Live! Try out our Semantic Search API in CourtListener, a big step forward in case law search!
Rachel Gao November 5, 2025
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Summer Stats: CourtListener API Surpasses 100 Million Requests Since its release last fall, CourtListener’s v4 API has processed more than 100 million requests. Developers and organizations are building research tools, civic projects, and legal technology on top of our open data.
Jessica Frank September 29, 2025
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Summer Stats: CourtListener Serves Over 1 Million Visitors in a Week Earlier this summer, CourtListener welcomed more than 1 million visitors in a single week for the first time. This milestone highlights the growing demand for open and reliable access to court data.
Jessica Frank September 25, 2025
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New CourtListener LibGuide: Free Legal Research Tools for Librarians, Researchers & Educators Check out our new LibGuide and .edu memberships for CourtListener resources!
Jenifer Whiston September 5, 2025
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Oral Argument Transcripts are Now on CourtListener! With our new Transcripts feature for Oral Arguments, you can search and monitor anything said in a circuit court case.
Stephanie Taube July 31, 2025
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How I use RECAP Search Alerts for PACER Data RECAP Search Alerts make it easy to monitor the federal courts. This is how our director uses the system.
Michael Lissner June 23, 2025
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RECAP Search Alerts for PACER Are Now Live! You can now get automatic updates any time new content that matches a saved search hits the RECAP Archive. Follow people, organizations, topics, and more!
Stephanie Taube June 18, 2025
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A Faster, Smarter, Unified Case Law Experience A redesigned case law modernizes the reading experience with enhanced layout and typography, more advanced features, better speed, and more.
William Edward Palin March 21, 2025
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v4 APIs are Now Live We have released v4 of our APIs, which should be much better for our users — faster, more featureful, more scalable, and more accurate.
Stephanie Taube September 23, 2024
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Updating the Free Law Project Brand and Saying Goodbye to FLiP After many years, it's time for some new branding. Not a moment too soon.
Michael Lissner July 5, 2024
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OK, *Now* We Have All the Financial Conflict Information for Judges, Right? Our Financial Disclosures Database now includes hundreds of nomination disclosures and covers 34 years going back to 1987.
William E. Palin, Esq. December 30, 2021
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Our Financial Disclosure Database is Now Available to All The wait is over. Thousands of disclosures and over a million judicial investments are now at your fingertips.
Michael Lissner October 15, 2021
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Announcing a New Open Database of Court Information, IDs, and Parsers News: FLP releases first of its kind system for parsing court names and giving courts unique identifiers.
William E. Palin, Esq., Michael Lissner March 10, 2020
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Citation Data Gets Richer We've added many more types of citations to our system.
Matt Dahl March 5, 2020
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Free Law Project now has every reported U.S. Tax opinion Our coverage of the tax court caselaw is now complete.
William E. Palin, Esq. March 3, 2020
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Citation Alerts are Better than Ever Get an alert when an important case is cited.
Michael Lissner February 20, 2020
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We Have Every Free PACER Opinion on CourtListener.com
Michael Lissner August 15, 2017
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Judge Profiles on CourtListener Now Show Oral Arguments Heard
Michael Lissner January 23, 2017
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CourtListener's SCOTUS Data Gets Even Better with Legacy Data from the Supreme Court Database
Michael Lissner September 6, 2016
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Launching the Next Version of CourtListener.com
Michael Lissner August 16, 2016
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Judge Profiles on CourtListener Now Have Campaign Finance Information from the National Institute on Money In State Politics
Michael Lissner July 27, 2016
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Judge Profiles on CourtListener Now Show the Cases Authored by Each Judge
Michael Lissner June 29, 2016
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Twenty-nine New Jurisdictions and an Improved Interface Coming Soon to CourtListener
Michael Lissner June 23, 2016
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Milestone: CourtListener has 365 Days of Continuous Oral Argument Listening
Michael Lissner June 8, 2016
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More Information about our Judicial Database and Some Responses to Feedback
Michael Lissner May 12, 2016
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Free Law Project and Princeton/Columbia Researchers Launch First-of-its-Kind Judicial Database
Michael Lissner April 19, 2016
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Releasing V3 of the API, Deprecating V1 and V2
Michael Lissner January 31, 2016
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Millions of New "Short Form" Case Names Now on CourtListener
Michael Lissner January 30, 2016
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Citation Searching on CourtListener
Michael Lissner January 30, 2016
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Many Improvements Released in New CourtListener Version
Michael Lissner January 30, 2016
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Our New Citation Finder
Michael Lissner November 30, 2015
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Free Law Project and University of Baltimore to Collaborate to Create Supreme Court Doctrinal Maps
Brian Carver August 20, 2015
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Reporters Database
Michael Lissner April 22, 2015
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CourtListener Can Now Send Alerts in Real Time for Donors
Michael Lissner January 5, 2015
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CourtListener is Now Integrated with the Supreme Court Database
Michael Lissner December 21, 2014
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Introducing Quick Tips on CourtListener
Michael Lissner December 10, 2014
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Check Out CourtListener's New Paint and Features
Michael Lissner November 13, 2014
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Announcing Oral Arguments on CourtListener
Michael Lissner October 31, 2014
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Free Law Project Founders Guests on "This Week in Law" Webcast
Michael Lissner September 14, 2014
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Free Law Project Joins Request for Access to Offline PACER Documents
Brian Carver August 27, 2014
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Using PACER — What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Brian Carver August 26, 2014
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CourtListener and Juriscraper Now Support All State Courts of Last Resort!
Michael Lissner August 12, 2014
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New Homepage and a CourtListener Revamp
Michael Lissner June 3, 2014
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It is Long Past Time for Free Online Access to the Law
Brian Carver January 30, 2014
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CourtListner's REST API Featured on Programmable Web
Brian Carver December 13, 2013
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Our New Authorities Table Allows Traveling to the Past
Michael Lissner November 26, 2013
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Free Law Project Unveils API for Court Opinions
Michael Lissner November 19, 2013
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CiteGeist Powers CourtListener's Newly Improved Search Results
Michael Lissner November 12, 2013
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Want to Merge Millions of Legal Opinions? It Won't Be Easy.
Michael Lissner November 1, 2013
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Our New Jurisdiction Picker
Michael Lissner October 31, 2013
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Free Law Project Adds More than 1.5M Opinions to its Collection Thanks to Data Donation
Michael Lissner October 30, 2013
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Free Law Virtual Machine Available for Academics and Developers
Michael Lissner October 15, 2013
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Announcing Citation Queries and other Goodies
Michael Lissner June 27, 2013
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Live coverage graphs now available
Michael Lissner February 9, 2013
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New Courts at CourtListener with Historical Data
Michael Lissner January 31, 2013
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A few updates at CourtListener
Michael Lissner January 30, 2013
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Presentation on Juriscraper and CourtListener for LVI2012
Michael Lissner October 9, 2012
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New tool for testing lxml XPath queries
Michael Lissner May 20, 2012
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Announcing the third series of the Federal Reporter!
Michael Lissner May 13, 2012
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Building a Citator on CourtListener
Michael Lissner May 11, 2012
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Further privacy protections at CourtListener
Michael Lissner April 27, 2012
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My Presentation Proposals for LVI 2012
Michael Lissner March 15, 2012
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Announcing OCR Support on CourtListener
Michael Lissner March 3, 2012
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Adding New Fonts to Tesseract 3 OCR Engine
Michael Lissner February 11, 2012
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The Winning Font in Court Opinions
Michael Lissner January 27, 2012
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Respecting privacy while providing hundreds of thousands of public documents
Michael Lissner January 16, 2012
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New formats for dump files
Michael Lissner August 24, 2011
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The abolishment of the Emergency Court of Appeals (April 18, 1962)
Michael Lissner August 10, 2011
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Updated Supreme Court Case Dates and The First Release of Early SCOTUS Data in Machine-Readable Form
Michael Lissner May 25, 2011
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Changes and Plans at CourtListener.com
Michael Lissner November 4, 2010
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Announcing CourtListener.com
Michael Lissner May 1, 2010
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Designing CourtListener
Michael Lissner March 13, 2010
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Converting PDF Files to HTML
Michael Lissner February 6, 2010
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