Systems, Methods, Software For Integration of Case Law, Legal Briefs, and Litigation Documents into Law Firm Workflow
First Claim
1. An online legal research system, the system comprising:
- one or more databases storing court documents of second legal cases; and
a server coupled to the databases, the server configured to;
receive from a client access device a portion of identification information that identifies a first legal case and a first activity associated with the first legal case maintained by a case management system of a law firm;
search the databases based on the received portion of the identification information; and
return to the client access device one or more court documents of at least one second legal case that are relevant to the first activity of the first legal case.
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Abstract
The present inventors recognized a need for improving conventional informational retrieval systems, particularly those intended for retrieval of legal information. Accordingly, they devised systems, methods, and software that facilitate online access to documents, such as non-opinion legal documents, in context of a legal workflow. An exemplary method of operation includes determining that a user of a client access device is performing a litigation-related task using a word-processing application on the client-access device. And in response to an affirmative determination, providing trial court materials relevant to the litigation-related task to the client access device without the user leaving the word-processing application. In some embodiments, the word-processing application is launched from a case-management application that provides case, activity, and role information to the online legal research system.
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20 Claims
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1. An online legal research system, the system comprising:
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one or more databases storing court documents of second legal cases; and a server coupled to the databases, the server configured to; receive from a client access device a portion of identification information that identifies a first legal case and a first activity associated with the first legal case maintained by a case management system of a law firm; search the databases based on the received portion of the identification information; and return to the client access device one or more court documents of at least one second legal case that are relevant to the first activity of the first legal case. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method of performing legal research, the method comprising:
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receiving at a server from a client access device a portion of identification information that identifies a first legal case and an activity associated with the first legal case maintained by a case management system associated with a law firm; searching one or more databases that store court documents associated with second legal cases based on the received portion of the identification information; and returning to the client access device one or more court documents of at least one second legal case that are relevant to the activity of the first legal case. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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