Careers in Law Guide

The Litigation Intelligence Center allows you to look up law firms and companies, and can generate charts to help visualize trends in an entity's litigation history.

Corporate Counsel Profiler (part of Wolters Kluwer's VitalLaw legal research platform) is a comprehensive database for North America's in-house legal departments. Search and browse information on 22,000+ corporate counsel, and acquire company details from thousands of corporations. Search options and filters include: company and attorney name, company city and state, practice areas, bar jurisdictions and more.
Note: U of M affiliated users may access this resource from off-campus using their VitalLaw credentials. If you have not created VitalLaw credentials logon to VitalLaw with your U of M Internet credentials and click on the "Log in" link (top left corner), then click on the "Create User ID" link and follow the registration steps.

Formerly the "Leadership Library", contains 11 leadership directories: Congressional, Federal, Federal Regional, Judicial, State, Municipal, Government Affairs, Law firms, Corporate, Associations, and News Media. Search or browse within individual directories or across all directories using single or multiple criteria, such as name, job title, industry, and geographical location.

The Lexis Litigation Profile Suite allows users to look up information about attorneys, and includes some data visualization features.

A valuable resource for job searchers, career counselors, and legal recruiters. Each annual edition provides information on legal employers of all types — private practice, public service, government agencies, and corporations located nationwide.

The Westlaw Profiler tool allows users to look up information about attorneys and their litigation history. Westlaw also contains the Directory of Corporate Counsel, which includes concise biographies of in-house attorneys. In Westlaw Edge, the Litigation Analytics module is another source to find information about judges and law firms.

This database contains a variety of information and data on federal judges in the judicial and executive branches of government. Includes federal civil and criminal courts, immigration courts and FISA court. Users can generate custom reports on individual judges. Users may also access TRAC Reports, authored by TRAC staff and covering a wide variety of topics.

TRACfed provides access to data and research reports which focus primarily on federal civil and criminal enforcement activities, federal expenditures and staffing. Types of data collected and reports provided include: criminal, civil, and administrative enforcement data, U.S. District Court Judges' and Assistant U.S. Attorneys' case load & performance statistics, administrators & federal staffing, federal expenditures, and community context data.

Formerly the "Leadership Library", contains 11 leadership directories: Congressional, Federal, Federal Regional, Judicial, State, Municipal, Government Affairs, Law firms, Corporate, Associations, and News Media. Search or browse within individual directories or across all directories using single or multiple criteria, such as name, job title, industry, and geographical location.

The Lexis Litigation Profile Suite allows users to look up information about judges, and includes some data visualization features.

The Westlaw Profiler tool allows users to look up information about judges, and run reports that illustrate trends in a judge's case load. In Westlaw Edge, the Litigation Analytics module is another source to find information about judges and their case loads.

The Litigation Intelligence Center allows you to look up an individual judge and view charts that help visualize a judge's case history.