Challenge
- High volume of legal data (cases, settlements, news) required rapid indexing and searchability.
- Visitors needed a seamless experience for eligibility lookup, case updates, and news consumption.
- Backend needed to support dynamic content updates and secure user inquiries via forms.
- Scalable infrastructure needed to handle traffic spikes during major settlements or news cycles.
- Data sources (legal docs, publisher feeds) required periodic ingestion and transformation.
Solution
- Developed a **React front end** with server-side rendering to enable fast load times and SEO performance.
- Built a **Node.js API** with Express to handle search queries, case details retrieval, user submissions, and lawyer matching.
- Used **MongoDB** to store lawsuits, settlements, eligibility criteria, and user inquiries—optimized with full‑text indexing.
- Created an admin dashboard for team members to manage cases, publish featured stories, and track inquiries.
- Integrated third-party APIs for email alerts, legal content updates, and dynamic settlement data.
- Setup monitoring, load balancing, and horizontal scaling to ensure high availability during peak traffic.
The Result of Our Work
- Published and actively maintain a growing database of over 1,000 class-action cases—covering major lawsuits like PFAS contamination, Paraquat exposure, and Depo Provera claims.
- Recognized by Google for high domain trust, SSL security, and adherence to best-practice web standards.
- Received positive user feedback for intuitive navigation, fast page loads, and simplified access to complex legal content.
- Achieved strong organic rankings for competitive legal search terms such as “current class action lawsuits” and “check settlement eligibility.”
- Engineered a robust backend infrastructure capable of scaling during legal announcements and settlement surges—without performance drops.
