FRAMEWORK FOR CONDUCTING LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING BASED ON ACCUMULATED LEGAL KNOWLEDGE
First Claim
1. A method of legal document formulation and accumulating legal knowledge comprising:
- designating an anchor, the anchor being a heading, a citation, or a document passage identifiable by a server;
accepting commentary related to the anchor;
associating the commentary with the anchor;
arranging the anchor and associated commentary at a position within an editor in response to an input depositing the anchor at the position;
saving the anchor and commentary to the server; and
retrieving the anchor and commentary as a search result.
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a framework for conducting legal research, writing, and collaboration tasks and accumulating legal knowledge. The framework can contain a body of legal documents. Users can select quotations from the documents, group one or more quotations in a Quote Bundle, and add annotations to the quotations within the Quote Bundles and/or add annotations directly to the Quote Bundles. The quotations, annotations, and Quote Bundles can be shared between users. Furthermore, the Quote Bundles can be integrated with a built-in word processing tool to facilitate the writing process. As a user creates a document, one or more Quote Bundles can be displayed. A user can select a quotation from a Quote Bundle, which can then be added to their document. When a quotation is added to a user created document, the proper citation information can also be added without further action by the user.
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1. A method of legal document formulation and accumulating legal knowledge comprising:
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designating an anchor, the anchor being a heading, a citation, or a document passage identifiable by a server; accepting commentary related to the anchor; associating the commentary with the anchor; arranging the anchor and associated commentary at a position within an editor in response to an input depositing the anchor at the position; saving the anchor and commentary to the server; and retrieving the anchor and commentary as a search result. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A system comprising:
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a processor; a network interface; a first module configured to control the processor to receive, via the network interface, a request from a user to designate an anchor, the anchor being a heading, a citation, or a document passage; a second module configured to control the processor to accept commentary related to the anchor; a third module configured to control the processor to arrange the anchor and associated commentary at a position within an editor in response to receiving input from a user; a fourth module configured to control the processor to save the anchor and commentary; and a fifth module configured to control the processor to retrieve the anchor and commentary as a search result. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to formulate a legal document and accumulate legal knowledge, the instructions comprising:
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identifying a quotation in a document; associating a citation with the identified quotation; adding the quotation to a bundle user interface element; associating an annotation with the quotation, the annotation being additional content accepted into the bundle; and saving the bundle of related information including the quotation, citation, and annotation while maintaining the association between the quotation and the citation and the annotation. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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