Law360 Subscription Cost: Pricing, Free Trial Terms, and What Each Plan Includes

How much does a Law360 subscription cost?

There is no published answer, and that is not an oversight. Law360 routes every pricing question to a form. Its FAQ answers the question "How do I get a Law360 price quote or start a subscription?" with "Fill out a subscription request form and a Law360 representative will contact you as soon as possible." No dollar figure appears on the FAQ, on the subscribe page, on the product overview document, or on the page LexisNexis built specifically to sell Law360 to small firms. All four were checked on September 9, 2026.

What decides your number is the shape of the subscription rather than a list price. Three things move it: which tier you buy, how many of the sections you take if you buy at the section level, and how many seats you need. Law360 sells around 33 US practice area sections, roughly 20 industry sections, and a set of state sections, so a two section subscription for a boutique and an all sections Platform deal for a 40 lawyer firm are not the same product being discounted, they are different products.

One published number does exist, and most buyers never find it because it lives on a different vendor page. LexisNexis sells Lexis+ Professional at 324 dollars per attorney per month on an annual term, or 432 month to month, and its own store describes that tier as Enhanced coverage plus 50 state case law, Law360 and CourtLink. Annualized that is 3,888 dollars per attorney, or 5,184 if you pay month to month. It is the only place a firm can see a real figure with Law360 inside it, and it is only worth using as a reference point if you actually need the 50 state case law that comes with it.

Treat any specific per seat Law360 price you read on a software directory with suspicion. The rate card Law360 last published as a PDF in 2023 is no longer live: the URL Google still ranks on the first page for this query now redirects to MLex. A number that came from a document the vendor has withdrawn is not a current price.

What are the Law360 subscription plans?

Law360 documents three tiers. A Section Subscription gives unlimited access to one section, its full archive, and a daily newsletter for that section. An Enterprise Subscription opens all US news sections, including any launched during your term, adds the full US news archive and unlimited daily newsletters, and unlocks the mobile app. A Platform Subscription is Enterprise plus the research layer: unlimited custom newsletters, real time alerts, full text search and alerts on new patent complaints and on PTAB and TTAB cases and documents, the Law360 Briefcase, and a database of over 2.1 million federal cases with activity since 2011.

Two details in that list decide more purchases than the price does. The first is that the mobile app is not available at the section level at all. Law360 states it is available "for Enterprise and Platform subscribers" and points everyone else to their account rep about upgrade options. If your partners read the news on a phone at 7am, which is exactly how Law360 is marketed, the cheapest tier does not do the thing you are buying it for.

The second is that the federal case database and the PTAB and TTAB tools sit on Platform only. Firms that want Law360 for docket and filing visibility rather than for reading are buying the top tier whether they planned to or not, and should price it that way from the first call.

The section list itself is worth checking against your practice before you buy, because it has grown past the brochure. The product overview document lists nine state sections while the live site now carries sixteen, including Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio and Washington. If your state was not there last time someone at the firm looked, look again.

Is Law360 worth it for a small firm?

It depends entirely on whether you are buying awareness or capability, and those have very different returns for a firm of two to ten lawyers. Law360 is a newsroom. It runs a dedicated editorial staff of more than 200 reporters and editors publishing around 200 articles every business day, about 300 analysis and feature pieces a month, with an archive of more than 450,000 articles going back to 2003 and reporters in nearly two dozen US cities. Those are the numbers Law360 publishes about itself, and they are the product.

For a practice where knowing about a decision or a regulatory move the morning it lands changes what you do, that is worth real money. Litigation boutiques in a defined area, and anyone whose clients expect to hear about developments from their lawyer rather than from a newsletter, get concrete value. LexisNexis reports from its own 2022 survey that half of small law attorneys rely exclusively on Law360 for information on the practice of law, and it says more than 300,000 small law readers take the newsletters.

It is not worth it as a research purchase, and that is the mistake to avoid. Reading the news is not the same as finding the controlling authority for the brief due Thursday. If your reason for looking at Law360 is that your research costs too much, you are looking at the wrong line item, because a Law360 subscription will not reduce it.

The practical test: write down the three things you expect to stop doing after you subscribe. If all three are versions of "keep up," Law360 is the right tool and a section subscription in your practice area is probably the right size. If any of them is "find cases faster" or "check whether this authority still holds," that need survives the purchase and you will be buying twice.