The short answer
We published a batch of free, citable datasets built from official sources: federal civil filings by type, state trial-court caseloads, discrimination charges, unwanted-call and consumer-finance complaints, fatal crashes by county, legal-services prices, lawyer and paralegal pay, law offices and legal deserts by county, statutes of limitations and the new-lawyer pipeline. Each has a study page, CSV and JSON files, a DOI and its own MCP server.
This month we published a batch of free datasets for law-firm marketing, each built from an official source, each with a study page, CSV and JSON files, a DOI on Zenodo and its own read-only MCP server for AI assistants. Here is what each one answers, and where to find it.
Courts and filings
- Federal civil filings by type: new federal civil cases by nature of suit and district, from the US Courts’ statistical tables. Shows which case types are rising where.
- State trial-court caseloads: cases filed in Texas trial courts by court level, county and case type, from the Office of Court Administration.
- California court filings by county: civil, criminal, family and probate filings by county.
Complaints people file
- Discrimination charges by state: charges filed with the EEOC by state and basis, for employment-law marketing.
- Unwanted-call and text complaints: complaints to the FCC by state and month, for consumer-protection practices.
- Consumer-finance complaints: CFPB complaints about debt collection, credit reporting and debt management by state.
Injuries and deadlines
- Fatal crashes by county: NHTSA counts of fatal crashes involving trucks, motorcycles, pedestrians and bicyclists, by county.
- Statutes of limitations by state: the time limit for injury, malpractice, wrongful death, product and property claims, quoted from each official code. Our guides to wrongful death and medical malpractice marketing use it.
The legal market itself
- Legal-services prices: consumer and producer price indexes and jobs for legal services, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Our legal inflation calculator uses it.
- Lawyer and paralegal pay: pay and employment by state and metro area.
- Law firm competition by county and legal deserts: law offices, lawyers and residents per office in every county.
- New-lawyer pipeline: bar exam results and admissions by jurisdiction.
What this means for your firm
- Use the court, complaint and crash data to choose practice areas and places to market.
- Use the price and pay data when you set budgets and hiring plans.
- Cite the pages when you publish, and ask your AI assistant to use the MCP servers for answers with sources.
All of it is listed, with versions and DOIs, in the data catalog, and the studies are on the research page. If you want to know how your own firm shows up when clients search, start with a free video review.
Questions about this note
How can a law firm use these new datasets in its marketing?
Use them to choose where and what to market: crash and complaint data show where certain injuries and consumer problems concentrate, court filings show which case types are growing, and pay and price data help set budgets. Every page also shows its source, so a firm can cite it.
Can we reuse these datasets on our own website?
Yes. Each dataset is CC BY 4.0: reuse it with credit to Probative Growth and a link to its page. Each study page has a ready-made citation and the DOI.
Sources
- Probative open data catalog (versions, DOIs and files for every dataset)Accessed October 28, 2026