Prashanth Shenoy<\/a>, with Prolawgue on all things legal tech and legal data. <\/p>\n\n\n\nPrashanth\u2019s interview with Prolawgue covers an expansive range of topics and provides a unique perspective from the engineering side of things on how UniCourt initially formed as a legal tech company that was focused on unifying court records and court systems in one portal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the interview, Prashanth shared that \u201cAggregation of public data sets is the core of UniCourt.\u201d As a Legal Data as a Service provider, we are squarely focused on collecting, standardizing, and normalizing court data from state and federal courts, attorney bar data from bar associations of nearly all 50 states across the United States, and other public records like Secretary of State business records. But this is no small feat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prashanth goes on to share that \u201cCourts are required by law to make court records accessible to the public, but how they make it accessible is not very well defined.\u201d Further, \u201cEach court typically has their own electronic court management system, and they have a front end which is an ancient website, and the way you would access that data is not really easy for the general public.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beyond pure aggregation of public records, UniCourt also does a great deal of normalizing those public records to identify real-world entities involved in litigation. If you want to learn more about UniCourt\u2019s normalization and how we use seed data sets to ID entities like attorneys, law firms, businesses, and judges connected to court records, Prashanth does an excellent job in the interview of detailing both the how and the why we normalize data to improve our clients\u2019 experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can also jump directly to the topic you\u2019re interested in by using the helpful timestamps Prolawgue has provided:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Learn More and Get In Touch With Us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n Big thanks to the team at Prolawgue and Shreya Vajpei for making this interview possible. We loved getting the opportunity to have Prashanth share more about UniCourt and the exciting things happening in legal tech. You can watch the full interview here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n