Court notice management has become one of the largest unmeasured operational workloads in litigation practices. Yet, most firms have had no reliable external benchmark for how many court-issued documents their litigators receive, how much staff time is required to process them, or how manual handling affects operational risk.
The 2026 State of Litigation Benchmark Report analyzes twelve months of anonymized, aggregated ECFX client usage data to quantify the true scale of this workload. The findings reveal that the median litigator receives approximately 708 court-issued documents each year, while an administrative assistant supporting four litigators may spend more than two hours every working day processing notices.
Download the report to benchmark your firm’s operations and explore key findings related to court notice volume, administrative labor, staffing capacity, missed-notice risk, and the jurisdictional mix of federal, state, and agency court activity.
