Lex Machina's Employment Litigation Report 2022 looks at employment litigation trends in federal district and appellate courts. It focuses on the three-year period from 2019 to 2021 and discusses emerging trends in Title VII, ADA, FLSA, and FMLA cases, and appellate outcomes in employment litigation. This report includes the new Legal Analytics on federal appellate litigation.

The report covers the following analytics:

• Case Filings (including discrimination, accommodation, FLSA, FMLA, pro se, cases caused by COVID-19, and federal appellate cases)
• Top Venues
• Top Judges
• Most Active Parties
• Most Active Law
• Firms
• Timing
• Case Resolutions
• Findings (including general employment cases and FLSA cases)
• Damages

This report presents data from Lex Machina’s Legal Analytics platform. Using machine learning and technology-assisted attorney review, raw data is extracted from PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records), which contains documents from federal district and appellate courts. The raw data is then cleaned, tagged, structured, and loaded into Lex Machina’s proprietary platform. This report is prepared by the Lex Machina Product Team using charts and graphs from the platform. Commentary is provided by Lex Machina’s legal experts.

To see some of the key findings in the report, view our infographic.

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