aiHit

Uses AI and machine learning technologies to gather company info from a vast number of unstructured sources, such as websites

Crayon Competitive Intelligence

Especially useful to learning about building CI teams and getting research on the state of the CI discipline. Also offers CI-focused webinars.

FeeFieFoeFirm

Scrapes law firm websites

Glassdoor

Find jobs and see company salaries, reviews, and interviews – all posted anonymously by employees; good for understanding brand perception of your firm or a competitor firm

Perplexity AI

Prompt to get started identifying potential legal issues, risks or opportunities; disclaimer - never enter firm sensitive data on an external AI tool such as Perplexity. Perplexity relies on a variety of advanced LLMs—including models like GPT-4, Claude 3, and its own custom models—to understand user questions, search the web, and synthesize answers.

Wayback Machine

Digital archive of the internet. Go "back in time" and see how websites looked in the past (including old firm bios or practice overviews).

Companies House

UK equivalent to Edgar, with information on company overviews and recent activity for Birtish companies.

Edgar (SEC Filings)

Research a company's operations and financial information with EDGAR search tools.

FINRA Brokercheck

Employment history, certifications, licenses, and any violations for brokers and investment advisors

Investment Advisor Public Disclosure (IAPD)

This resource allows you to search a firm and see the assets under management (AUM), offices, key people, and investment style of companies that manage funds in excess of $25 million, which are required to submit this information to the SEC.

Investor Relations pages (public companies)

Use pubco investor relations pages to learn about company initiatives, major news, any ESG commitments, stock prices

Secretaries of State

Links to all the searchable databases maintained by the Secretary of State for any given state.

SEDAR (Canadian Public Filings)

SEDAR is the Canadian equivalent to Edgar, with information on company overviews and recent activity for Canadian companies.

Yahoo Finance

General company info like stock information, financials, historical data and holders

Benchmark Litigation

Litigation rankings; searchable by firm, individual, jurisdiction; compare your firm by practice, client list, rep matters

Best Lawyers in America

Legal industry rankings; searchable by firm, practice, individual

Chambers USA

Legal industry rankings; reputable peer review rankings; use to see who the key players (attorneys and firms) are by region, practice, industry

Lawdragon

Attorney rankings; some legal news

Legal 500

Legal industry rankings; searchable by practice, geography, individual

PitchBook League Tables

PitchBook's League Table rankings for PE firms, VC firms, Investment Banks, Law Firms, and other service providers on deals in a number of sectors. The link is to the most recent league tables, but updated versions can be found by searching "pitchbook league tables" on Google. PItchBook is a subscription service but some of its content can be found for free online.

Who’s Who Legal

Attorney rankings & awards for comparison of law firms or practice areas

Clinical Trials

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) USA

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risk of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products. Subscribe to alerts on their website. https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/Subscribe

Department of Justice

A searchable page that allows users to find complaints against and convictions of individuals and companies in violation of areas such as the Stark Law/False Claims Act and investment fraud.

EPA ECHO Database

Use EPA's Enforcement and Compliance History Online website to search for facilities to assess compliance with environmental regulations. You can use ECHO to: Search for Facilities, Investigate Pollution Sources, Search for EPA Enforcement Cases, Examine and Create Enforcement-Related Maps, Analyze Trends in Compliance & Enforcement Data

FDA Clinical Trial Tracker

Federal Election Commission

Find federal donations made by an individual. See also OpenSecrets.org and individual state databases

Federal Trade Commission

Users can find federal gov't press releases and details announcing important work like actions against companies re: competition and consumer protection, and ongoing policy developments

Lexology

Firm authored articles to identify thought leadership topics for attorneys to write on, speak about; awards section includes influencers; Lexology is a paid tool but some of their content is available for free.

Mondaq

Aggregates law firm posts and legal news

OpenSecrets

Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, tracks money in US politics and its effect on elections and public policy; search by company to find lobbyists and law firm CI related to lobbying

Public Library Databases

Your library card (free!) provides you (free!) access to a number of databases that include academic/scientific journals, business information, and magaziines/newspapers, among others. For example, EBSCO Regional Business News includes the Biz Journals, while Gale Business: Insights has business intelligence, including company histories and SWOT reports. Some library systems might offer access to financial databases, like MorningStar, Mergent Intellect and Mergent Online.

Reuters - Legal

Reuters feed on the legal industry; covers lateral moves, office openings, industry issues

Senate Lobbying Database

Stanford FCPA Clearinghouse

FCPA enforcement actions database. Includes original filings. Great resource for statistical information

USA Spending

Users can get a detailed understanding of federal spending, by purpose, awardee, agency, and items/types of goods and services.

ViolationTracker

Banking, consumer protection, false claims, environmental, wage & hour, safety, discrimination, price-fixing, and other cases resolved by federal regulatory agencies and all parts of the Justice Department since 2000 -- plus cases from state attorneys general and selected state and local regulatory agencies

Cushman & Wakefield

Commercial RE company that produces visually compeling thought leadership for key industries

Lens.org

Lens ingests, cleans, aggregates, normalizes and serves over 225+ million scholarly works, 127+ million global patent records, and more than 370+ million patent sequences, with rich metadata including the people and institutions that generate this knowledge and the linkages between them, drawn from diverse data sources.

National Energy Tech Laboratory

A searchable database presented via Tableau (or, a downloadable Excel spreadsheet) that shows information on active, proposed, and terminated CCUS projects globally. Appears to be current through August 2022.

New Project Media

Data, intelligence and events company providing origination led coverage of the renewable energy market for the development, finance, advisory & corporate community; paid and free content available

Altman Weil

VIP resource for law firm surveys. Law Firms in Transition is standard reading for most C-Suites

Federal Statistical Agencies

Links to all federal statistics agencies, eg. Census of Agriculture, Health statistics, Crime statistics, etc. You can also use Data.gov to search across all federal statistical agency datasets.

JD Supra

Law firm thought leadership including podcasts, bylines, articles; search by topic, firm, practice or industry to identify hot topics

Martindale

Attorney details like practice, education, graduation year, current firm

MSCI - ESG Ratings & Climate Search Tool

A searchable database of ~3K companies that are part of MSCI's "All Country World Index" that lets users see any ESG and/or climate related challenges they may face

NALP Directory

Information on firms geared towards job seekers. Firm demographics, practice information, compensation, etc.

O’Neill Health Care Litigation Tracker

Current health policy litigation cases, with an emphasis on health care access, coverage, affordability, transparency, and equity.

ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer

Financials for nonprofit organizations. Or use Guidestar.org

SeedDB

List of accelerators/incubators

Thomson Reuters Institute | Georgetown University Law Center

Surveys & articles about law firm management. Report on the State of the Legal Market is read by all C-Suites.

US Bureau of Land Management

Information on approved and pending applications for permits to drill. Appears current through Jan 2023.

US Census Bureau

Use the American Community Survey Data to find social, economic, housing, and demographic data for a geographic area