Tech Round Up: Lex Machina Upgrades its Attorney Search Engine

• Lex Machina, a litigation data analytics company, announced it has added an improved Attorney Search Engine to its platform, so that users can more accurately track which attorneys work on any particular case.

According to Owen Byrd, the company’s general counsel, the program uses natural language processing to search the signature block of litigation filings, and also to see which attorneys were admitted to a case on a “pro hac vice” basis. Both are designed to help users find attorneys who worked on a case and might otherwise not show up in a Pacer filing.

The platform also takes a historic snapshot and stores ...