The Information is There, You Just Need to Know How to Look
Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) is one of the main conduits for accessing federal court records. Unfortunately, it is a labyrinth to navigate. With over 319 million individual case files, a single PACER search could either yield no results or thousands. Through years of experience with the system, we have developed a proven method to traverse the online system and identify new cases before they have become national and international news. The results have been featured in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, Reuters, National Public Radio, NBCNews, ABCNews, CBSNews, CNN, FoxNews, and MSNBC. Additionally, Hughes Consulting’s director, Seamus Hughes was part of a New York Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting on law enforcement in America. We would welcome an opportunity to share our expertise.
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“A well-known PACER Watcher”
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“Hughes is the Jedi Master of PACER”