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Jury Verdict Research and Jury Verdict Search Pricing for VerdictSearch, Westlaw and Lexis
What it actually costs a US plaintiff or defense firm to pull comparable verdicts and settlements before a demand, a mediation or a reserve call, read from each vendor's own store, price schedule and plans page.
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Jury verdict research means pulling reported verdicts and settlements in cases like yours to value a claim. The cheapest published standalone route is VerdictSearch at 125 dollars a month billed annually for a solo attorney (210,000+ reports back to the 1980s). Lexis+ includes verdicts and settlements for your own state from 257 dollars a month on a three year term (Enhanced) and for all states, plus the Verdict & Settlement Analyzer, from 324 (Professional). Bloomberg Law subscribers get VerdictSearch content at no added cost. Westlaw carries a Jury Verdicts & Settlements library but does not price it on its own.
$125
a month billed annually, the VerdictSearch Solo Attorney plan
210,000+
verdict and settlement reports in VerdictSearch, going back to the 1980s
$257
a month on a 3 year term, the cheapest Lexis+ plan with verdicts and settlements (your state)
$125
per report for the Lexis Verdict & Settlement Analyzer outside a plan that includes it
Side by side
Every jury verdict search route a US firm can buy, and what it costs
Lexis+ tiers read on the LexisNexis law firm store and its Small Law price schedule, VerdictSearch from its plans page, Bloomberg Law from the ALM and Bloomberg Law release of January 5, 2021, JVRA from its products page. Checked October 2, 2026.
| Route | Verdict coverage | Published price | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| VerdictSearch (ALM, Law.com) | 210,000+ verdicts and settlements back to the 1980s, updated daily, 15 search criteria plus full text | $125 a month billed annually for a solo attorney, 12 month term. Teams by quote | A plaintiff or defense solo who values cases every week |
| Lexis+ Enhanced | Verdicts and settlements for your selected state, plus federal case law and Practical Guidance | $257 a month on 3 years, $342 on 1 year, per attorney, 1 to 3 attorneys | A one-state litigation practice that also needs Shepard's and federal cases |
| Lexis+ Professional | Verdicts and settlements for all states, plus the Verdict & Settlement Analyzer, CourtLink and Law360 | $324 a month on 3 years, $432 on 1 year, per attorney | Multistate practices and firms that want outcome analytics |
| Lexis out of plan | One verdict document, or one Verdict & Settlement Analyzer report | $53 per verdict document, $125 per analyzer report (Small Law price schedule) | An occasional lookup on a plan that does not include verdicts |
| Bloomberg Law | VerdictSearch content (200,000+ national and state cases) and ALM Experts, inside the subscription | Not published. Federal contract records put small-seat plans near $435 to $489 a seat a month | Firms that want verdicts, dockets and research on one bill |
| Westlaw | Jury Verdicts & Settlements library and Case Evaluator | Not priced on its own. Online Westlaw plans start at $107.25 a month on 3 years | Firms already on Westlaw that confirm the library is in their content list |
| JVRA (Jury Verdict Review & Analysis) | Monthly national and state reporters (FL, New England, NJ, NY, PA, TX), a verdict database on premium plans, custom research | Not shown on its products page | Firms that want a monthly reporter or a researcher to run the search |
| CaseSearch | Appellate decisions that review damages awards: remittitur, additur, excessive verdicts, statutory caps | $49 a month, or $24 a month billed yearly | Checking whether a number will survive post-trial motions and appeal |
Prices are the vendors' own published figures for new US customers where they publish one, and they change. Bloomberg Law's figure is our reading of public federal contract awards, not a list price. CaseSearch does not report trial verdicts; it finds the case law that decides whether a verdict holds. A research tool, not legal advice.
What is the best jury verdict research tool for a small firm?
For a solo or small plaintiff firm that values cases every week, VerdictSearch is the most direct buy. It is the only product in this comparison sold purely as a verdict and settlement database, it publishes a solo price (125 dollars a month billed annually, so 1,500 dollars a year), and it reports each case with the injuries, the venue, the experts, the insurer and the final number. ALM says it asks the attorneys on both sides for their account of every case, which is why its reports tend to carry more detail than a court record does.
If you already need a full research platform, buy verdicts as part of it instead of on top of it. Lexis+ Enhanced puts verdicts and settlements for your own state in the same plan as Shepard's, federal case law and Practical Guidance from 257 dollars a month on a three year term. A multistate practice should look at Professional at 324, which adds every state and the Verdict & Settlement Analyzer. Bloomberg Law includes VerdictSearch content in its subscription, so a firm leaning toward Bloomberg Law gets the same reports without a second contract.
Either way, a verdict report only tells you what a jury did. It does not tell you whether the award survived. That is the gap the last section of this page covers.
Verdicts are the whole job
VerdictSearch, $125 a month billed annually for a solo.
One state plus full research
Lexis+ Enhanced, $257 a month on 3 years.
Multistate plus analytics
Lexis+ Professional, $324 a month on 3 years.
One bill for everything
Bloomberg Law, which includes VerdictSearch content.
How much does VerdictSearch cost?
VerdictSearch lists a Solo Attorney plan at 125 dollars a month billed annually, which is 1,500 dollars a year, for first-time subscribers at single-employee organizations. The plan runs a 12 month term that is non-refundable and cannot be cancelled mid-term, although you can switch off automatic renewal at any time. Firms of five or more attorneys and other organizations go through a custom quote with an account manager, by form or at 1-800-832-1900, extension 3.
The price has barely moved in more than a decade. In 2012 LawSites reported a solo subscription at 1,495 dollars a year, with a 349 dollar day pass, and by 2013 ALM sold single-state databases from 495 dollars a year. What has changed is the database, now more than 210,000 cases back to the 1980s, updated daily, searchable by 15 criteria plus full text.
Solo Attorney
$125 a month billed annually, 12 month term, first-time single-employee subscribers.
Teams and companies
Custom quote, 1-800-832-1900 ext. 3.
Through another platform
Bloomberg Law subscribers get VerdictSearch content at no added cost.
Which Lexis+ plan includes verdicts and settlements?
Enhanced and Professional. On the LexisNexis law firm store, Essential (114 dollars a month on three years) and Deluxe Transactional (217) show no verdict content at all. Enhanced (257 on three years, 342 on one) includes verdicts and settlements for the state you select. Professional (324 on three years, 432 on one) includes them for all states and is the only tier with the Verdict & Settlement Analyzer, the tool that charts award ranges and outcomes for cases matching your facts. The store sells these plans to firms of one to three attorneys.
If your plan does not include verdicts, LexisNexis charges by the document. Its Small Law price schedule lists Jury Verdicts & Settlements as a 53 dollar secondary source and the Verdict & Settlement Analyzer at 125 dollars per report. Two analyzer reports a month on an Essential plan cost more than the upgrade to Professional, so price your real volume before you sign. Our <a href="/blog/does-lexisnexis-charge-per-search">guide to LexisNexis out-of-plan charges</a> has the full schedule.
LexisNexis is also testing a new store page, seen in most of our loads on October 2, 2026, that sells only two Lexis+ with Protege packages from 495 dollars a month on three years. Both list verdicts and settlements inside their research content.
Essential, $114
No verdicts and settlements.
Enhanced, $257
Verdicts and settlements for your state.
Professional, $324
All states plus the Verdict & Settlement Analyzer.
Out of plan
$53 per verdict document, $125 per analyzer report.
Does Westlaw have jury verdicts and settlements?
Yes. Westlaw carries a Jury Verdicts & Settlements library covering civil jury trials, bench trials, settlements and arbitrations, along with a Case Evaluator, and Thomson Reuters publishes verdicts that bar members submit. The State Bar of Arizona, for example, lists a Westlaw Jury Verdicts member benefit under which attorneys publish their results at no cost and can request one complimentary case report a month.
What Thomson Reuters does not do is price the verdict library on its own. Its online order pages for firms of one to ten attorneys list research and AI features plan by plan, with Westlaw starting at 107.25 dollars a month on a three year term, but the verdict library is not one of the named line items. If verdicts matter to your practice, get it confirmed in writing in the order summary before you sign, the same way you would check a jurisdiction. Our <a href="/westlaw-pricing">Westlaw pricing</a> page has every configured plan.
Library
Jury Verdicts & Settlements, plus Case Evaluator.
Standalone price
None published.
Before you sign
Ask for the library by name in the order summary.
Can you search jury verdicts on Bloomberg Law?
Yes. Under a content agreement announced on January 5, 2021, ALM licensed VerdictSearch content, more than 200,000 national and state cases, and its ALM Experts directory of more than 15,000 expert witnesses and litigation support providers to Bloomberg Law, available to subscribers at no additional cost. For a firm that would otherwise buy VerdictSearch separately, that is a real saving to weigh in the Bloomberg Law quote.
Bloomberg Law publishes no price. The best public evidence is federal contract records, which put small-seat subscriptions at roughly 435 to 489 dollars a seat a month, rising 3 percent a year. The full breakdown is on our <a href="/bloomberg-law-pricing">Bloomberg Law pricing</a> page.
Verdict content
VerdictSearch, 200,000+ cases, at no added cost.
Expert directory
ALM Experts, 15,000+ listings.
Price
Quote only, about $435 to $489 a seat a month on federal records.
How do lawyers use jury verdict research to value a case?
They build a set of comparables. Filter by venue first, because a herniated disc case in Cook County and the same injury in a rural Texas county are different cases, then by injury, liability theory, plaintiff age and the defendant's profile. Pull 10 to 30 reports, drop the outliers you can explain, and read the range. A plaintiff firm uses the high end to support a demand letter and a mediation brief. A defense firm or carrier uses the same set to set reserves and decide whether to try the case.
The reports also tell you who testified. Most verdict reports name the experts on each side and the result they were part of, which is often the fastest way to vet an opposing expert before a deposition. For the full challenge history and transcripts, see our <a href="/expert-witness-search">expert witness search</a> pricing comparison. And because settlements are reported alongside verdicts, you see what cases like yours resolve for without a trial, which is the number most clients actually care about.
Venue first
Then injury, liability theory, plaintiff and defendant profile.
10 to 30 comparables
Drop the outliers you can explain, read the range.
Experts
Check who testified and how those cases ended.
Will a big verdict hold up after post-trial motions and appeal?
That is the question a verdict database cannot answer. A report records what the jury awarded. Whether the award survives depends on remittitur, statutory caps on noneconomic or punitive damages, and how your state's appellate courts review awards they consider excessive, and that lives in case law. A comparable verdict that was later cut in half is a bad anchor for a demand, and so is one that would not survive your state's cap.
This is the job CaseSearch is built for. Ask in plain English, for example whether Texas appellate courts have reduced noneconomic damages for a soft-tissue injury as excessive, and CaseSearch returns the on-point state and federal decisions with their citations, the holding in plain language and a good-law signal. You can run one real question at the top of this page with no account. After that it is 49 dollars a month, or 24 a month billed yearly.
Use a verdict database to find what juries award. Use CaseSearch to find out which of those numbers the courts let stand.
Verdict database
What juries and settlements paid in cases like yours.
CaseSearch
The appellate decisions on remittitur, caps and excessive awards.
You
Put both together before you send the demand.
Frequently asked
Questions buyers ask about jury verdict research
What is jury verdict research?
Jury verdict research is the search of reported jury verdicts, bench trials and settlements in cases with similar facts, venue and injuries, used by plaintiff and defense lawyers and insurers to value a claim, draft a demand, prepare for mediation, set reserves and vet expert witnesses.
How much does VerdictSearch cost?
VerdictSearch lists a Solo Attorney plan at 125 dollars a month billed annually, or 1,500 dollars a year, for first-time subscribers at single-employee organizations, on a non-refundable 12 month term. Firms of five or more attorneys get a custom quote at 1-800-832-1900, extension 3.
Is there a free jury verdict search?
Some bar associations publish member-submitted verdicts and law libraries offer walk-in access to the paid databases, but there is no free national verdict database with the depth of VerdictSearch, Lexis or Westlaw. State Bar of Arizona members, for example, can request one complimentary Westlaw verdict report a month.
Does Lexis have jury verdicts?
Yes. Lexis+ Enhanced includes verdicts and settlements for your state from 257 dollars a month on a three year term, and Professional includes all states plus the Verdict & Settlement Analyzer from 324. Outside those plans LexisNexis charges 53 dollars per verdict document and 125 dollars per analyzer report.
Does Westlaw have a jury verdict search?
Yes. Westlaw has a Jury Verdicts & Settlements library and a Case Evaluator. Thomson Reuters does not sell or price the library on its own, so confirm that it appears in the content list of your plan before you sign a Westlaw order.
What is the difference between a verdict database and case law research?
A verdict database reports what a jury or settlement paid at the trial level. Case law research finds the appellate decisions that decide whether that award stands, including remittitur, damages caps and excessiveness review. Valuing a case well takes both.
Can CaseSearch find jury verdicts?
No. CaseSearch searches court opinions, so it finds the appellate decisions that review damages awards, not trial verdict reports. Use it next to a verdict database, at 49 dollars a month or 24 billed yearly, with one demo question that needs no account.
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Ask about remittitur, caps or excessive awards in plain English and read the on-point decisions, their citations and a good-law signal. One run needs no account. After that, 49 dollars a month or 24 billed yearly, cancel anytime. A research tool, not legal advice.