Everybody’s still a-buzz about CodeX-born Lex Machina’s sale to LexisNexis. Sean Doherty, in his latest tech column on Above the Law, dives more into the ramifications (and also reviews Microsoft Corp.’s OneDrive).

Here’s a snippit to intrigue you:

“For Lex Machina subscribers and big data enthusiasts, it’s not the end of the Silicon Valley-based data analytics provider but the awakening of legal analytics in areas beyond intellectual property, such as discrimination and employment law. Lex Machina will no longer be hampered by PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) data extraction costs. With free access to Lexis Advance case law content and PACER output from its new owner (via Court Link), the company can apply its data analytics and visualization technology at reduced costs. Whether the savings to produce products get passed on to subscribers is another story.”

Monica Bay is a Fellow at CodeX and a freelance journalist for Bloomberg BNA Big Law Business. She is a member of the California bar. @MonicaBay. Email: mbay@codex.stanford.edu.