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How-To Guides
Step-by-step guides to Indian court processes: checking case status, reading cause lists, downloading orders and more.
46 articlesMarket & Industry Insights
Analysis of India’s legaltech market, court data infrastructure and how legal technology is changing in India.
29 articlesLegal Data Insights
Original data stories from 30 crore+ case records: pendency, disposal times and statistical studies.
29 articlesAI & Legal Technology
How AI, APIs and legal technology are changing work in Indian courts: AI Clerk workflows, summaries and the eCourtsIndia API.
26 articlesCourt Data Stories
Narrative stories backed by court data: celebrity cases, busiest courts and the journey of a case from filing to verdict.
32 articlesLawyer & Litigant Guides
Practical guides for advocates and litigants: hearings, certified copies, bail, summons and hiring the right lawyer.
19 articlesCourt Deep Dives
Court-specific guides for the Supreme Court, High Courts, Family Courts, DRT, NCLT and more.
8 articlesLatest articles
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Owning the Data Layer: CIBIL, Zerodha, PitchBook, Clio
CIBIL, Zerodha, PitchBook, Clio-vLex and Bloomberg turned scattered data into a reference others rely on. What each did, what it earned, and Indian courts.
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The Operating System for Indian Law: A Category Definition
What an operating system for Indian law means: a data layer over public court records, a portal lawyers use daily, and AI tools that run on…
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The AI Agent Layer for Indian Law: Harvey, MCP and the Court Data Gap
What an AI legal agent is made of, how MCP connects it to Indian court data, who is building, what courts’ AI rules say, and why…
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Public Data, Private Experience: A Manifesto for the Indian Court Data Layer
How eCourtsIndia builds on India’s public eCourts system: what we build, what we refuse to build, free search, open prices and seven public commitments.
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How We Built eCourtsIndia.com: A Dated Build Log, 2025 to 2026
The eCourtsIndia build log: domain in April 2025, site live by June, then the API, MCP, AI Clerk, tribunals, IndiaCode and LegalCheck, each with a date.
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Court Data Is a FinTech Dataset: Lenders, BGV Firms, Insurers
Why banks, NBFCs, insurers and BGV firms use Indian court records for underwriting, fraud and onboarding, and what to demand from a court-data vendor.
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The Zerodha Playbook for Indian Legaltech: Why the Next Category Leader Will Look Boring
What Indian legaltech can borrow from Zerodha: infrastructure before ads, pricing for solo lawyers, free discovery, Varsity-style content, no VC money.
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A Short History of Indian Legaltech: From AIR to AI, 1914 to 2026
How Indian legaltech grew in five waves: AIR and SCC in print, CD-ROMs, eCourts and Indian Kanoon, SaaS tools, and today’s court-data APIs and legal AI.
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The Cost of Judicial Delay: What 5 Crore+ Pending Cases Cost India
Judicial delay costs India an estimated 0.5% to 1.5% of GDP a year. The DAKSH and NJDG numbers behind it, where pendency sits, and what court…
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Reading the Clio-vLex Deal: Lessons for Indian Legaltech
Clio bought vLex for $1 billion in 2025 to join workflow and legal data. What the deal shows, which figures are confirmed, and how it maps…