The Defined Routes to Hollywood’s Legal Elite: A Data Driven Look at Top Entertainment Lawyers

This article takes a look at the ideologies of ten of the top big-law firms based on the firms' former clerks and the judges they clerked for.

Chambers & Partners compiles yearly rankings but the comparisons between advocates are opaque. This article uses a data backed method to provide profiles of the nations 71 top appellate advocates.

This article compares Trump's appellate appointees' with their predecessors to examine what this new batch of judges is doing to redefine the federal bench.

What signals who will author opinions for the Court? Details from this term start to provide tell tale signs.

A rundown of the numbers from Supreme Court oral arguments so far this term

The Advocate–Amicus Ecosystem of the Supreme Court’s Argued Docket, OT2022–OT2025

A trope among SCOTUS watchers concerns how seasoned attorneys try to garner specific justices' votes that may be decisive through strategic framing. This article applies this logic.

The justices' ideological preferences are a contested topic. This article discusses the costs and benefits of measuring the justices' ideologies at all and presents a novel, composite ideology measure

When cases travel from the appeals courts to SCOTUS, the attorneys often don’t make the trip with them. The pattern of who gets replaced, and when, reveals a great deal about Supreme Court practice.

A statistical and comparative romp through the opinions, briefs, and oral argument to assess the impact of this landmark decision

For years, scholars and commentators have tracked the Supreme Court’s merits docket through detailed statistical analyses. SCOTUSblog’s Stat Pack has become an essential resource for understanding how...

What were the most important cases from last term? Here's how to move beyond the qualitative assessments

A pattern of strategic succession is reshaping the federal judiciary, with judges increasingly replaced by their former clerks—cementing legal philosophies for generations.

The first oral argument sitting of the Term is under the justices' belts but what does it show about the justices' interactions and what does it mean for the decisions down the line?

Circuit splits are the clearest indicator of cases ready for Supreme Court review, but the Supreme Court only selects a subset of these on cert. This post assesses some of the most likely candidates.

This piece shows how a small circle of elite Supreme Court advocates—measured by grant rates, opposition success, and amicus patterns—can significantly shift the odds at the Court’s certiorari stage.

This article shows Supreme Court clerkships now function less as prizes than as pipelines, channeling talent through tight networks into powerful firms and institutions.

From the law schools that feed to lower court judges to the Supreme Court clerkship feeder judges, this article tracks Supreme Court clerkship data going back to 2005 and highlights recent shifts.

Using unique shadow docket data, this article tracks topic areas, repeat advocates, the most frequent relief granted, and more to provide a more holistic picture of the justices' dissenting behavior.

Using a dataset of decisions on the shadow docket with dissents between 2010 and 2025, this article presents of picture of coalitions and power distribution outside of the Court’s merits docket.

This article analyzes 1,192 amicus briefs across 82 cases (OT 2022–OT 2024) where the federal government was a party and maps how named interest groups and individual Justices line up in those matters

Want insight into the cert process? Using a modern dataset of paid petitions (2017–2024), this piece turns relists, pre-cert amici, calendar rhythms, and specialist lineups into practical odds.

This article compares law firms most trusted by Fortune 500 companies for high-stakes federal appeals, using new empirical data to reveal who actually delivers results when the stakes are highest.

This article goes beyond a close read of this Term's dissents by creating discreet comparisons of the language used in each to define the most critical and urgent dissents over the past year.

You may know the most prestigious schools, but do these and should these schools yield the most satisfied students? See what the data show.

How did the Justices leverage modes of interpretation this past term? This article uses empirical measures to track just how much originalism, pragmatism and more were applied in majority opinions.

Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions and oral arguments, to provide insights into the justices’ decision […]

Placing the StatPack in the context of the Roberts Court's history since 2005

Supreme Court patterns are evolving.Stat Pack analysis – 2024-25 term The SCOTUSblog Stat Pack provides a comprehensive analysis of Supreme Court trends and patterns. Through a detailed tracking of ca...

There's a lot to unpack with over 2,200 pages of internal memos from the decision-making process now released. Here are details on what they show.

How does the Skrmetti opinion help define the stakes of judges' ideological positions in the U.S. Courts of Appeals?

A look at the authors and journals that most frequently make their ways into the justices’ opinions.

You may have seen these names before, but you have not seen this type of analysis

Who were the top performers? How did they score? What did the top attorneys do that placed them ahead of the pack?

Who is the heir to Justice Kennedy, if there is any at all?

In six major—three before the U.S. Supreme Court and three in the federal courts of appeals—judges across the country are confronting the boundaries of executive authority and judicial intervention.

Five cases with huge implications and top big firm advocates. Which briefs had the greatest impact? They are ranked below.

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A definitive look at the work of law school clinics work from April 2024 through April 2025 based on court opinions and broken down by school, clinic, court, and more.

A definitive look at the work of law school clinics work from April 2024 through April 2025 based on court opinions and broken down by school, clinic, court, and more.

Four Supreme Court giants reveal how story, steel-edged brevity, and relentless clarity can make—or break—your next brief.

Two Supreme Court cases challenge how far public institutions can go in excluding constitutional rights.

Ranking the Top Briefs in the First Ten Decisions Across Seven Different Dimensions

An oral argument and an opinion test how far constitutional protections reach in classrooms and courtrooms.

What did the advocates argue in 4/21/2025 oral arguments, what did the justices ask, and how are they likely to vote?

What if the most influential conservative litigator in America wasn’t fighting the culture war—but quietly redrawing the constitutional map, one impeccably structured brief at a time?

Want to know how the Chief Justice might shape the future of presidential power? This is the roadmap—data, doctrine, and decisions decoded.

Analysis of the Associated Press court opinion from DC and the Samsung oral argument from the Federal Circuit

Law reviews aren’t just for the Supreme Court—courts nationwide are citing them in big ways and here are the data to show it.