UniCourt 2023 Year in Review

UniCourt had a busy 2023. Our two big announcements were the launch of the UniCourt Enterprise API, an API-first platform purpose-built for future growth, and the addition of 14 states to our Legal Data as a Service offering. Keep reading to find out about awards, events, and more.

Awards & Recognition

2023 was a year filled with recognition for UniCourt. It began in February when the ABA Journal announced that UniCourt’s CEO and Co-Founder, Josh Blandi, had been featured in its Legal Rebels Class of 2023 as an innovative entrepreneur in the legal technology space and a leader of the legal data market for enterprise businesses and consumers. 

Not far behind that announcement came the news that UniCourt had been featured by Asia Law Portal for the second consecutive year. After UniCourt’s CTO and Co-Founder, Prashanth Shenoy, was recognized in 2022 as one of the 30 People to Watch in the Business of Law in Asia, this year, UniCourt, as a company, was spotlighted as one of the 55 Legal Tech Companies in Asia to Follow in 2023.

The most exciting award for UniCourt this year was the Enterprise Award of the 2023 American Legal Technology Awards. Winning the Enterprise Award was an incredible testament to UniCourt’s journey from a legal tech startup in 2014 to a recognized industry leader in Legal Data as a Service (LDaaS) as an enterprise-level legal technology company providing real-time court data and legal analytics powered by the only API-first platform in LegalTech. 

We ended the year with the news that UniCourt is a finalist for the 2024 Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards. Keep an eye out for the final results in early 2024.

Insights from UniCourt’s Influencer Q&As

UniCourt’s Influencer Q&A series is our longest-running publication and provides a window into what’s happening in legal technology. This year, we spoke to several leading legal industry influencers, including legal tech consulting leaders, law firm knowledge management professionals, CIOs, and law firm marketing experts. Here are a few nuggets of knowledge from this year’s Influencers:

“I start every project by asking two questions: (1) What is the problem we are trying to solve and (2) Is this a problem worth solving?” Meghann Barloewen

“I want to stress that data modeling and analytics are very challenging without clean, secure, and un-siloed data.” Othiel Glover

“As the legal marketing industry continues to evolve, it’s more important than ever for law firms to remain agile and adaptive.” Tanner Jones

“For law firms buying tech, my advice is always the same – make sure you fully understand and identify a valuable ‘problem to solve’ before you consider spending a dollar.” Cheryl Wilson Griffin

Here is a complete list of the Influencer Q&As from 2022.

• Priti Saraswat of BakerHostetler
• Meghann Barloewen of Littler Mendelson
• Karen Campbell of Foley Hoag LLP
• Othiel Glover of Mayer Brown
• Elisabeth Cappuyns of DLA Piper (US)
• Tanner Jones of Consultwebs
• Susan Sommers of Ogletree Deakins
• Cheryl Wilson Griffin of Legal Tech Consultants
• Jay Sarmaz of Truve
• Paul Giedraitis of Orgaimi

UniCourt Sponsored a Legal Writing Competition

In early 2023 UniCourt sponsored a Nationwide Legal Research & Writing Competition for law students throughout the U.S. to highlight the importance of improving access to the law, as well as the value of excellent legal writing skills. The competition covered four areas of law, with one winner in each category.

These law students stood out above the rest:

• Antitrust Category – Brenda Alves, 2L at Rutgers Law School
• Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Category – Kjerstin Lewis, 2L at North Carolina Central University School of Law
• Intellectual Property Category – Abigael Diaz (they/she), 3L at University of Washington School of Law
• Privacy & Cybersecurity Category – C.P. Stewart, 2L at North Carolina Central University School of Law
• Securities & White Collar Defense Category – Ryan Lam, 2L at George Washington University Law School

UniCourt Insights

In 2023, UniCourt had the opportunity to gather the insights from several law firm marketing and business development experts. Working with Brad Blicksteirn of Baretz + Brunelle’s New Law team, we developed our report, Marching Toward Data-Driven Business Development: Industry Insights from Am Law CMOs, Our experts also collaborated with Brad to create a Law Firm Maturity Model deck and survey.

In the fall, UniCourt sponsored Ari Kaplan’s Fueling Firm Growth, Virtual Lunch Series. It consisted of online interviews with Am Law chief marketing and business development officers and other senior law firm leaders covering how their firms are using data to fuel firm growth. If you didn’t have a chance to view these informative sessions, recordings are available on our blog.

UniCourt on Tour

The UniCourt team traveled the US this year, educating legal professionals, learning from our peers, and meeting up with old and new friends, partners, and colleagues. These are the main events we attended:

LEGALWEEK 2023

Legalweek 2023 featured wonderful content, insights, and intelligence from the many panel sessions, including the session sponsored by UniCourt, Investigations vs Monitoring: Strengthening Your Monitoring Program in the Pursuit of Less Investigations,  Our CEO and Co-Founder, Josh Blandi, moderated the session which featured industry experts, including Eric Boger, Vice President, Solutions Evangelist of Ontic, Terance “Tery” Gonsalves, Partner, Alston & Bird LLP, and Deborah Solmor, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, TCS Education System.  

ILTACON 2023

2023 was the first year that UniCourt sponsored ILTACON, and what a time we had as the event was back in full swing after the COVID hiatus. Prior to the conference, we announced the release of our UniCourt Enterprise API. During the event, we shared our industry insights report, Marching Toward Data-Driven Business Development: Industry Insights from Am Law CMOs.

ARK: KM Legal 2023 

UniCourt was honored to sponsor the ARK: KM Legal 2023 conference at the silver level. Our CEO, Josh Blandi, also moderated a panel titled Danger Data Overload: Finding a Needle in a Haystack. KM leaders from three Am Law 100 firms participated in the lively discussion: Keli Lea Whitnell, Director of Firm Intelligence at Troutman Pepper, Vishal Agnihotri, Senior Director of Knowledge and Innovation at Alston & Bird, and Courtney Toiaivao, Director of Research Services  at Holland & Knight LLP. 

Call for Content in 2024

Are you interested in educating the legal industry on using APIs for legal data? Want to share your experiences and expertise on the latest in legal innovation, leveraging AI and machine learning, or what’s happening in the access to justice space?

Send us your ideas for guest post content through our Contact Us page. We are always open to educational and informative guest posts. However, we do not accept paid or purely promotional content.

We published four guest posts in 2023:

• Everything You Should Know About Data-Driven Litigation by Ben Michael, Founder of Michael & Associates
• Start with Your Firm’s Online Presence: 7 Legal Marketing Essentials by Alessandra Torres, Content Manager at Consultwebs
• Boosting Your Firm’s Branding: 7 Effective Tips for Your Legal Marketing Strategy by Alessandra Torres, Content Manager at Consultwebs
• How to Build Trust in Your Law Firm and Measuring Success by Alessandra Torres, Content Manager at Consultwebs

What’s In Store for 2024?

After nine years of continued growth, primarily in using our legal research app, we released our new Legal Data APIs in Q1 of 2023 to more efficiently provide litigation data and analytics to large law firms to fuel their business development and legal research efforts.

As we continue to grow, we’re actively hiring in both the US and Mangalore. Visit our careers page for more details.

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