PacerPro

What it is

PacerPro is court-data infrastructure for litigation departments at large law firms. It captures federal and state court filings as they post, attaches each one to its case and docket history, renames it to a firm standard, and files the PDF into the right client-matter workspace in iManage or NetDocuments. Case teams get the document by distribution rule rather than by forwarding chains. PacerPro says it covers every federal district, bankruptcy, and appellate court plus the JPML, and more than 30 state courts through its StatePro module. It says new activity usually reaches the platform within one to two minutes of publication, and that it has captured more than 20 million filings since 2015. Each federal filing carries 50+ ECF metadata fields, and the platform keeps audit trails, firm-wide permissions, SSO/SAML with SCIM provisioning, and a SOC 2 Type 2 report.

Gavin McGrane, a co-founder, is CIO. The company’s last disclosed raise was a $5M Series C in October 2021. On 21 August 2026 Harvey announced a partnership that brings PacerPro’s federal and state court record into Harvey as a data connector, demoed at ILTACON on 25 August.

Why it shows up in Legal Ops stacks

• It turns the ECF email into a filed, named, distributed document. At a big firm, a notice of electronic filing triggers a manual loop: a docketing clerk uses the free look, downloads the PDF, renames it, saves it to the DMS, and emails the team. PacerPro automates that loop, and because it captures the PDF on the free look, the firm avoids paying PACER a second time for the same document. PacerPro claims firms capture 25% more filings with it, even with a central docketing team. That number is vendor-reported.
• It is the feed an AI litigation workflow needs. Harvey can only reason about a motion it can see. The partnership’s stated use case is a dispositive motion arriving with its operative pleadings, earlier briefing, and prior rulings already attached, so the lawyer opens Harvey with the case in context instead of rebuilding it. Harvey has not published which plans include the connector or whether it costs extra.
• The incumbent footprint is real. PacerPro says most of the Am Law 100 use it, including 8 of the 10 largest US firms. Legal Technology Hub lists Kirkland & Ellis, Sidley Austin, and Husch Blackwell as customers.

Pricing reality

PacerPro publishes no price list today. Its pricing URL returns a 404, and the site routes buyers to a demo or a pilot on a handful of active matters. It says firms typically go live within 48 hours. Third-party directories still list a per-user plan at $20–$30 per user per month with an enterprise tier above it, but PacerPro does not publish those numbers and we could not confirm they are current. Treat them as a floor for small teams, not a quote for a firm.

Budget two lines. The first is the PacerPro contract, which for an Am Law firm is an enterprise annual agreement scoped by users, courts, and DMS integration. The second is PACER itself: $0.10 per page, capped at $3 per document. PacerPro reduces that bill through free-look capture and shared access, but it does not remove it. Ask for your current annual PACER spend by matter before the demo, because that number is the ROI case.

Best for

Docketing managers, litigation support leads, and KM teams at firms with 100 or more litigators. The fit is a firm that already runs iManage or NetDocuments, files in federal court weekly, and wants every filing in the matter workspace within minutes, with no clerk in the loop. It is also the pick for a firm that is rolling out Harvey to litigators and needs live docket data feeding it.

Versus the alternatives

Bloomberg Law and Lexis CourtLink are the research incumbents with the largest docket collections. Pick one of them when lawyers mainly search dockets for research and business development. Pick PacerPro when the job is getting your own matters’ filings into your DMS. CourtAlert is the closest head-to-head. It sells ECF reconciliation, docketing, and iManage and NetDocuments integration to Am Law 200 firms. Pick it when you want docketing and calendaring from one vendor, and pick PacerPro when you already have a rules engine such as LawToolBox and need the capture layer. The fastest-growing entrant is Clio Docket, the former Docket Alarm. It came to Clio with the $1B vLex acquisition (closed November 2025) and went into Clio Work in August 2026 with more than 1 billion federal and state filings. Pick it if you are a small or mid-size firm already on Clio. UniCourt and Trellis are the picks when you need state court data as an API or for analytics rather than capture of your own matters. CourtListener is free and covers PACER documents others already bought through RECAP, which is enough for occasional research. If none fit, keep the manual ECF loop but standardize it: one shared docketing inbox, a naming convention, and a weekly reconciliation against PACER. That gives you the baseline volume every vendor will ask for.

Watch-outs

• State coverage is partial. PacerPro says “more than 30 state courts” without a public per-state list, and a 2023 reviewer noted it is not available in every state. Guard: send your top 10 state venues by filing volume before the demo, and get coverage confirmed in writing per court.
• No public price, and PACER fees sit on top. Guard: get the per-user or per-firm rate, the renewal cap, and PACER pass-through terms in the order form. Then compare the total against your last 12 months of PACER invoices.
• The Harvey connector is new and its terms are unpublished. It was announced in August 2026, with no public detail on availability by plan, cost, or what data leaves the firm. Guard: put three questions to both vendors in writing — which matters sync, whether sealed or restricted filings are excluded, and who holds the data once it reaches Harvey — before you enable it firm-wide.
• The big numbers are PacerPro’s. “8 of 10 top firms,” 99.7% retention, and 25% more filings captured are all marketing claims. Guard: run the pilot on matters with known filing histories and count missed or late filings against your current process over 30 days.
• It is not a docketing rules engine. PacerPro delivers documents and dockets. It does not calculate deadlines. Guard: keep your rules engine and check that deadline entries are triggered from PacerPro’s metadata, not re-keyed by hand.