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Legal: Court Structure, Caseload & Justice-System Benchmarks
A free, platform-curated set of legal-system benchmarks — the number of federal courts and judgeships, annual civil, criminal and bankruptcy filings, the count of licensed U.S. lawyers, and the size of the U.S. Code and CFR — compiled from the U.S. Courts, American Bar Association and Office of the Federal Register public records. Helps litigators, researchers and journalists frame the justice system with authoritative figures.
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