Courts (NAICS 922110): An Investor's Primer

1. Overview

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 922110 covers the civilian courts of law that make up the judicial branch of American government — federal, state, county, and municipal courts, plus the court functions performed by sheriffs' offices, such as serving legal process and providing courthouse security. [1]

This is not a conventional market "sector." Courts are a government function, funded by taxpayers. You cannot buy shares in a court, and the courts themselves earn no profit and pay no dividend. So why should an investor care? Because courts sit at the center of a large, mostly private ecosystem that investors can own: the software that runs court dockets and electronic filing, the legal-research and analytics services lawyers cannot work without, the firms that finance lawsuits, the companies that record depositions, the private arbitration providers that resolve disputes outside the courthouse, and the bail-bond agents at the criminal end. Those businesses rise and fall on court caseloads, government technology budgets, and litigation activity.

• Public-market ways in: court and government software (Tyler Technologies, Daily Journal, Constellation Software's equivant unit), legal-information and artificial-intelligence (AI) platforms (Thomson Reuters/Westlaw, RELX/LexisNexis), and litigation finance (Burford Capital).
• Private-market ways in: private equity (PE) has rolled up court software, payments, court reporting, and dispute resolution; litigation-finance funds offer returns tied to case outcomes rather than to the stock market; and municipal bonds fund courthouse construction.

Investment judgment: demand for courts is durable and largely non-discretionary, but the investable opportunity is almost always a government-technology or legal-services business with court exposure — not a court operator. This primer treats the courts as the demand backdrop and the surrounding ecosystem as the opportunity.

2. What it is and how it's structured

Courts resolve civil, criminal, bankruptcy, family, probate, traffic, and other disputes; manage filings and dockets; conduct hearings and trials; issue orders; and provide public access to records.

In scope (922110): civilian trial and appellate courts at every level of government, and sheriffs' offices performing court-only work (bailiffs, courthouse security, process service). [1]

Explicitly excluded — and this matters for sizing the opportunity. Several adjacent justice functions sit in separate NAICS codes and are not part of 922110: [1][2]

• 922120 Police Protection, 922140 Correctional Institutions (prisons/jails), and 922150 Parole and Probation Offices — the enforcement and corrections side of justice.
• 922130 Legal Counsel and Prosecution — prosecutors, district attorneys, and public defenders, who are budgeted alongside courts but are separate functions.
• 922190 Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities.
• 928110 National Security, which includes military courts.
• 921150 American Indian and Alaska Native Tribal Governments, which includes tribal courts.
• NAICS 5411 Legal Services — the private law firms and lawyers who appear before courts, not the courts themselves.

Ownership mix: overwhelmingly governmental. Sector 92 (Public Administration) consists mainly of federal, state, and local agencies providing public services, often free or at prices that are not economically significant. [2] The federal judiciary runs 13 courts of appeals, 94 district courts, and 90 bankruptcy courts. [3] State systems run everything else — high-volume trial courts, appellate courts, state supreme courts, and specialized dockets — and handle the great majority of U.S. court activity. There are roughly 30,000 state judges versus about 1,700 federal judges, a ratio that tells you where the volume is. [4] The private slice inside this NAICS code is tiny (contract security, some support services); the money to be made is in the adjacent private industries described throughout this primer.

3. How big it is

A note on our data first. Histometrics' ground-truth file of federal business statistics has no entries for NAICS 922110 — so this primer reports no NAICS 922110 revenue, employment, establishment, or market-size figure, because none exists in our authoritative source. That absence is itself the story, and it is structurally understandable. The Census Bureau's business surveys are built to count private employers: the Economic Census and County Business Patterns exclude government-operated establishments and Public Administration, and Nonemployer Statistics excludes Public Administration as well. [5] Because courts are a government activity, those datasets show almost nothing here. (One commercial business directory lists a few thousand "companies" under 922110, but that is a directory artifact, not a real measure of the court system.)

To size courts you must use government-finance, judiciary-budget, and caseload data, not business statistics. Operational scale is better captured by caseload, backlog, clearance rates, time to disposition, staffing, appropriations, and technology spending than by private-sector sales. The figures below come from those sources and are labeled accordingly.

• State and local court spending: about $52 billion in 2021, up from roughly $32 billion in 1992 in inflation-adjusted terms — a ~65% real increase over three decades. [9]
• Federal judiciary budget: Congress enacted about $8.63 billion in discretionary funds for fiscal year (FY) 2024 — roughly 96% of the $8.95 billion requested — including ~$6.4 billion for court salaries and expenses, ~$1.5 billion for defender services, and ~$531 million for court security. [10] For FY2025 the request rose to about $9.0 billion [12], and the Judiciary reported roughly $8.6 billion in discretionary appropriations received, including $94.2 million for cybersecurity and information-technology (IT) modernization. [11]
• Caseload: state courts handle the vast majority of American litigation — on the order of 68–70 million cases filed a year (Pew counts about 68.5 million in 2023; the National Center for State Courts, or NCSC, cites roughly 70 million). [6][7] Federal courts are far smaller: for the 12 months ending March 31, 2025, federal district courts recorded 271,802 civil cases and 73,644 criminal defendants filed, plus 529,080 bankruptcy petitions. [8] State courts account for well over 98% of all U.S. filings.
• Fee revenue: courts also generate cash. The federal judiciary's PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) system alone collects roughly $140 million a year in access fees — and about 87% of that comes from just 2% of users, mostly large corporate data buyers. [13][14]

Bottom line: this is a multi-tens-of-billions-of-dollars public enterprise whose scale is invisible in standard business statistics. These are court-system activity and spending figures, not revenue available to private vendors.

4. The investable universe

There is no pure-play "court" stock — the courts are government. Investors reach the theme through the vendors, information providers, and financiers that surround the courtroom. These companies differ substantially in how much of their business is actually court-related: Daily Journal, Tyler, and equivant are closest to core court software; Thomson Reuters and RELX are primarily broader legal-information businesses.

Major private and PE-backed owners (not publicly investable):

• Court-technology and payments platforms: Catalis — a government software-as-a-service (SaaS) and payments platform with court, land-records, and justice products that says it combined 30+ public-sector software businesses in under five years (recapitalized with PSG and TPG). [27] Avenu Insights & Analytics (Arlington Capital Partners) acquired Judicial Innovations, a cloud payments/case-management provider with 180+ customers across courts, probation, and traffic. [28] File & ServeXpress (Northlane Capital Partners) provides electronic filing and court technology. [29] Other legal-tech and e-discovery names include Relativity and CentralSquare.
• Dispute resolution (ADR): JAMS and the American Arbitration Association (AAA) are the two dominant private arbitration/mediation providers. JAMS is the largest private firm (~$200 million revenue); the nonprofit AAA administers the large majority of U.S. consumer arbitrations. [24]
• Court reporting / depositions: Veritext is the leading firm (roughly 14–19% of a ~$3.2 billion court-reporting market), PE-owned, in a rapidly consolidating field. [25]
• Bail bonds: roughly $2.4–2.6 billion in annual revenue across ~10,550 mostly tiny local agencies, backed by a handful of surety insurers (six underwrote ~76% of bonds in 2021). [26]

5. How the money works

The courts themselves are cost centers, not profit centers. They are funded mainly by appropriations (Congress for federal courts; legislatures, counties, and cities for state and local) supplemented by filing fees, fines, assessments, and user fees. PACER is funded through user charges rather than ordinary appropriations — generally $0.10 per page, capped at $3 for most documents, with quarterly charges of $30 or less waived. [13] A court's "success" is measured in clearance rates and access to justice, not margins.

So the economics that matter to an investor are the economics of the surrounding businesses, and each type earns money differently:

• Court/government software (Tyler's Enterprise Justice, Journal Technologies, equivant, Catalis). Recurring-revenue, SaaS-style businesses. A vendor wins a multi-year contract to run a jurisdiction's dockets, then charges license/subscription fees plus implementation, data-conversion, and consulting services, and often e-filing and payment-processing fees on top. Daily Journal's FY2025 mix illustrates the model: of ~$70 million at Journal Technologies, ~$31.7 million came from licensing and maintenance, ~$22.7 million from consulting/implementation, and ~$15.5 million from public-service fees including e-filing. [17] The prize is stickiness — once a jurisdiction converts its case data, switching costs are enormous, contracts run for years, and vendors cross-sell adjacent modules (payments, jury management) rather than lose the account. A key subtlety: filings do not automatically create vendor revenue. A court can get busier under a fixed-price contract without paying more, while a system replacement can produce a large payment even when filings are flat. Watch contracts/jurisdictions won, recurring revenue, renewal rates, and backlog.
• Legal-information platforms (Westlaw, LexisNexis). High-margin subscriptions to case law, statutes, and court dockets that lawyers cannot practice without — a near-duopoly with strong pricing power, now layering paid AI research tools on top. [20][21]
• Litigation finance (Burford). A funder puts capital into a lawsuit or portfolio in exchange for a slice of any recovery. Returns are driven by case outcomes — win rate, award size, and duration — expressed as return on invested capital (ROIC) and internal rate of return (IRR). Financing is typically non-recourse: if the case loses, the funder loses its money. Cash flows are lumpy and long-dated, and portfolio values rely partly on fair-value estimates before cases resolve. [23]
• Court reporting / depositions (Veritext). Volume businesses billing per transcript or per hour; economics turn on deposition volume, a chronic stenographer shortage, and the shift to digital/AI transcription. [25]
• Arbitration / ADR (JAMS, AAA). Earn case-administration fees plus arbitrator/mediator time; revenue scales with disputes filed. The recent surge in mass arbitration (tens of thousands of individual claims filed at once) is reshaping their fee models. [24]
• Bail bonds. An agent charges a nonrefundable premium (typically ~10% of the bail amount), backed by a surety insurer; profit is premiums minus forfeitures and recovery costs — a spread/underwriting business under heavy political pressure. [26]

6. What drives demand

• Persistent case volume. Filings — civil, criminal, family, traffic, probate, bankruptcy — are the raw fuel. State courts alone process roughly 68–70 million cases a year. [6][7] Volumes rise with population, and specific categories spike with economic stress (bankruptcies, foreclosures, debt-collection suits) or crime trends. [8] More cases mean more software load, more depositions, more litigation to finance.
• Digital modernization. The multi-year shift from legacy systems to e-filing, online payments, cloud hosting, integrated case management, and public portals — accelerated by COVID-19 — is a durable tailwind for court-tech vendors and legal AI. Many courts still run on decades-old systems.
• Complexity and backlog. More complicated workflows and post-pandemic case backlogs raise the value of configurable case-management systems and legal-research tools.
• Cybersecurity. The federal judiciary reported escalated cyberattacks against its case-management system in 2025 and additional protective measures — a spending driver across court IT. [30]
• AI adoption. The federal judiciary created an AI task force and issued interim guidance allowing experimentation while requiring human review and caution around adjudication; state courts are developing their own policies, producing a fragmented but expanding market for secure legal AI. [31][32]
• Government budgets and policy. Vendor purchasing follows appropriations cycles and procurement schedules, not just caseloads. Policy shifts move whole sub-markets: bail reform reduces bail-bond demand; mandatory-arbitration clauses feed JAMS/AAA; mass-arbitration tactics change ADR volumes overnight. [24][26]

Judgment: the strongest long-term demand is likely to come from modernization and security rather than from raw case-volume growth.

7. Regulation

Courts are unusual because the industry is a branch of government — it regulates others and largely governs itself. The federal judiciary is administered by the Judicial Conference of the United States and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts; state systems are run by their supreme courts. Separation of powers protects judicial independence and budgets. Courts also operate under constitutional due-process requirements, judicial-ethics rules, public-records obligations, and privacy restrictions.

The ecosystem around courts is heavily regulated:

• Procurement and data security. Government procurement rules (competitive bidding, security clearances) govern who can sell court software. Federal cloud vendors may face the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA), which requires risk-based security programs including systems run by contractors [33], and the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), a standardized security-assessment process for cloud services used by federal agencies. [34]
• Records access vs. confidentiality. Court systems must balance public access against sealed filings, protected personal information, juvenile matters, and sensitive criminal records — requiring careful permissions and redaction workflows. PACER's per-page fees have drawn litigation and legislative pressure to make federal records free, which would eliminate a ~$140 million judiciary revenue stream. [14]
• AI governance. Courts emphasize human accountability, independent verification, confidentiality, and limits on delegating core judicial decisions to AI. [31][32]
• Adjacent-industry licensing. Court reporters are licensed at the state level; bail-bond agents are licensed and their surety backers regulated by state insurance departments. [26] Arbitration operates under the Federal Arbitration Act, which makes arbitration agreements broadly enforceable — the legal foundation of the JAMS/AAA business. [24]
• Litigation-finance disclosure. An active policy fight: several states and courts now require parties to disclose third-party funders, and proposals to tax or restrict funding recur. Disclosure is the sector's main regulatory overhang. [23]

8. Competitive dynamics and consolidation

The court-technology market is fragmented by federal, state, county, municipal, and specialty-court requirements. Local rules, data structures, integrations, and procurement laws make a single universal product difficult. The principal competitive advantages are embedded case/docket data, integrations with prosecutors, defenders, probation, and payment systems, knowledge of local rules, implementation experience, high switching costs, security certifications, and long-term relationships. Public procurement gives customers real bargaining power and can force competitive bids, but mission-critical systems are hard to replace once deeply embedded.

• Court software is a consolidating oligopoly. Tyler Technologies is the clear leader and one of the most acquisitive companies in government technology; Journal Technologies (Daily Journal), equivant (Constellation Software), and roll-up platforms like Catalis, Avenu, and File & ServeXpress are the main challengers, several of them PE-driven. [15][17][18][27][28][29]
• Legal information is a duopoly. Thomson Reuters (Westlaw) and RELX (LexisNexis) dominate; the current battleground is generative AI research (CoCounsel vs. Lexis+ AI). [20][21]
• Litigation finance is maturing and institutionalizing. Burford leads a still-fragmented field as large law firms take a growing share of new commitments and pension and sovereign capital flows in. [23]
• Court reporting is rolling up. Veritext and a few backers are consolidating a fragmented field amid a stenographer shortage and AI transcription. [25]
• ADR is concentrated (JAMS + AAA) and being reshaped by mass arbitration. [24]
• Bail bonds are the opposite — thousands of tiny operators backed by a handful of sureties, in a market shrinking under bail reform. [26]

No standardized public market-share dataset exists for court technology, so investors should treat vendor claims about leadership or customer counts as company-reported, not independently verified.

9. Risks

• Budget and procurement risk. Everything downstream depends on government money. Shutdowns, budget shortfalls (the federal judiciary has repeatedly warned of funding gaps), and slow procurement — requests for proposals, legislative approvals, appropriations, implementation reviews — can delay or reduce vendor revenue. [10]
• Policy and political risk. Bail reform is a structural headwind for bail bonds; litigation-finance disclosure/limits threaten funders; free-PACER legislation would cut court fee revenue; changes to arbitration law would move JAMS/AAA volumes. [14][23][26]
• Implementation and concentration risk. Failed data conversion, inaccurate records, or outages can disrupt hearings, filings, and liberty-related decisions. A statewide contract is valuable but creates dependence on a few public customers.
• Cybersecurity, privacy, and AI risk. Court systems hold sensitive personal, criminal, and financial data, making them attractive targets [30]; AI adds hallucinated legal authorities, bias, and disclosure exposure.
• Litigation-finance idiosyncratic risk. Long durations, binary outcomes, and reliance on fair-value estimates make results lumpy; a few large cases can dominate a funder's book. [23]
• Concentration and antitrust scrutiny. Tyler's lead in court software and the Westlaw/LexisNexis duopoly invite regulatory attention; the cash-bail model draws sustained ESG criticism. [26]
• Exposure misclassification. A company may sell to courts but earn most of its economics from law firms, police, corrections, or other government markets — and PE-backed platforms may carry acquisition debt and refinancing risk.

10. How to invest, and the outlook

Start with exposure, not the ticker. Each listed name below is a proxy — a vendor or financier around courts, not a court, carrying business exposure well beyond the courtroom.

Public routes. The cleanest large-cap exposure to court modernization is Tyler Technologies (TYL) — sticky, recurring court and government software. Thomson Reuters (TRI) and RELX offer legal information and legal AI. Burford Capital (BUR) is the listed way to own litigation-outcome returns. Daily Journal (DJCO) is a small, illiquid, court-software-heavy play, and Constellation Software (CSU) buries a court-software unit (equivant) inside a diversified group. Before buying, review court-specific revenue if disclosed, recurring-subscription growth, customer retention/renewal rates, implementation margins, backlog and public-sector bookings, customer concentration, cybersecurity history, and cash generation versus debt.

Private routes. PE has been the most active owner in this theme — rolling up court software and payments (Catalis, Avenu, File & ServeXpress), court reporting (Veritext), and ADR. Litigation-finance funds offer institutional investors returns tied to case outcomes that are largely uncorrelated with public markets — attractive for diversification, but illiquid and long-dated. On the public-finance side, municipal bonds fund courthouse construction and are the most direct way to lend to the court system itself. Venture capital is funding a wave of legal-AI and court-modernization startups. Private diligence should focus on contract duration and termination rights, renewal history, data ownership and migration obligations, security controls, and dependence on a single state or county; for PE platforms, leverage and integration deserve special attention.

Near-term drivers (forward-looking). The strongest structural tailwind is the digitization and security hardening of the courts — e-filing, remote hearings, cloud migration, cybersecurity, and records modernization remain years from finished, which should keep court-tech and legal-AI demand growing. Litigation finance appears to be institutionalizing even as disclosure regulation advances; mass arbitration is reshaping ADR economics; and bail bonds look set to keep shrinking in reform-minded states. Caseload is a useful demand indicator but a weak standalone investment metric — a court can be busy without spending more on software, while a modernization project can lift vendor revenue when filings are flat.

Outlook — judgment. U.S. courts should remain a durable, low-cyclicality public-service market with continuing demand for digitization, security, and workflow integration. The most attractive investments are likely to be well-managed, mission-critical vendors with recurring revenue, high retention, strong implementation, and diversified government exposure. Court exposure alone is not enough; execution, contract quality, security, and valuation determine returns. These are judgments about direction, not guarantees — all of them hinge on government budgets and policy choices that can shift quickly.

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