Data, Get Yer Data...

I’ve had a couple of data compilations hit my (virtual) desk recently, so it occurred to me that it might be fun (librarian fun, not normal people fun) to make a list of good places to get data if one were to be interested in changing the legal profession or working in access to justice.

Wait…you were going to look at some data first before trying a solution, right? Okay, good.

If you have any additions, please leave a comment and let us know.

Lawyers and Legal Profession

• ABA Profile of the Legal Profession https://www.americanbar.org/news/reporter_resources/profile-of-profession/ 

• Clio 2020 Legal Trends Report https://www.clio.com/resources/legal-trends/

• National Association of Law Placement (NALP) Statistics https://www.nalp.org/research

• ABA Center for Innovation Legal Innovation Regulatory Survey http://legalinnovationregulatorysurvey.info/

Courts, Government and Organizations

• National Center for State Courts Court Statistics Project http://www.courtstatistics.org/

• Other NCSC Statistics https://www.ncsc.org/information-and-resources

• US Courts Federal Courts Statistics https://www.uscourts.gov/statistics-reports

• Legal Services Corporation By the Numbers https://www.lsc.gov/media-center/publications/2019-lsc-numbers

• Bureau of Justice Statistics https://www.bjs.gov/

Tools and General Information

• ABA TECHREPORT https://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_practice/publications/techreport/

• ABA Center for Innovation ODR in United States Survey https://www.americanbar.org/groups/centers_commissions/center-for-innovation/online-dispute-resolution-in-us/

• US Census Data https://data.census.gov/cedsci/

• Huge Compendium of Data Resources from LLRX https://www.llrx.com/2020/08/statistics-resources-and-big-data-on-the-internet-2020/

Data Analysis and Visualization Tools (all Free or Open Source)

• DataWrapper https://www.datawrapper.de/

• Gephi https://gephi.org/

• Orange https://orange.biolab.si/

• Mallet http://mallet.cs.umass.edu/ (I use the Stanford GUI overlay Topic Modelling Tool https://code.google.com/archive/p/topic-modeling-tool/)