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US 10,832,212 B2Granted
Systems and methods for managing documents for law firms
AssigneeThomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH
InventorsForrest Rhoads, Trace Liggett
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Abstract
The present inventors devised unique systems, methods, interfaces, and software for managing and leveraging knowledge in law firms and potentially other enterprises. For example, one system provides a single user interface for researching case law for online legal research service and identifying and accessing law-firm documents.
Claims18
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory that contains instructions that are readable by the processor and cause the processor to:
- receive a query that indicates at least one legal topic;
- provide a response to the query indicating each work-product document and each case law document that matches the at least one legal topic, wherein each indicated work-product document includes a depth-of-treatment value indicating a degree to which each indicated work-product document evaluates a specific case law document;
- indicate, in the response provided to the query, a reliability of each work-product document using:
- a validity indicator for each work-product document, the validity indicator for each work-product document indicating a validity status of at least one case cited within each work-product document;
- and
- a rating indicator for each work-product document, the rating indicator for each work-product document indicating a user rating of each work-product document based on previous users of each work-product document, the user rating indicating a utility of the document as determined by the previous users of each wok-product document;
- and
- prior to providing the response:
- retrieve each work-product document that matches the at least one legal topic from a first database;
- and
- retrieve each case law document that matches the at least one legal topic from a second database.
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A tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media having software encoded thereon, the software, when executed by a processor, operable to:
- index at least one work-product document according to a hierarchy of legal topics based on at least one legal citation and at least a set of text corresponding to the at least one work-product document, each legal citation further associated with a case law document having legal precedence;
- receive a query that indicates at least one legal topic from the hierarchy of legal topics;
- and
- provide a response to the query indicating each work-product document that matches the at least one legal topic and each case law document associated with each legal citation corresponding to each work-product document, wherein each indicated work-product document includes a depth-of-treatment value indicating a degree to which each indicated work-product document evaluates a specific case law document;
- indicate, in the response provided to the query, a reliability of each work-product document using:
- a validity indicator, the validity indicator indicating a legal precedence validity status of each case law document associated with each legal citation corresponding to each work-product document;
- and
- a rating indicator, the rating indicator indicating a user rating of each work-product document based on previous users of each work-product document, the user rating indicating a utility of the document as determined by the previous users of each wok-product document;
- and
- prior to providing the response:
- retrieve each work-product document that matches the at least one legal topic from a first database;
- and
- retrieve each case law document that matches the at least one legal topic from a second database.
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A method for facilitating a knowledge management system comprising:
- receiving at least one work-product document, each work-product document including at least one legal citation and at least a set of text, the at least one legal citation associated with a non-work-product document having legal precedence;
- indexing each work-product document according to a hierarchy of legal topics based on the at least one legal citation and the set of text;
- indexing each non-work-product document associated with the at least one legal citation included in each work-product document according to the hierarchy of legal topics;
- generating a validity indicator that indicates a validity status of the legal precedence for each non-work-product document associated with the at least one legal citation included in each work-product document;
- generating an indicator that indicates a user rating of each work-product document based on previous users of each work-product document, the user rating indicating a utility of the document as determined by the previous users of each wok-product document;
- receiving a query that indicates at least one legal topic of the hierarchy of legal topics;
- and
- providing a response to the query indicating each work-product document and non-work-product document that matches the at least one legal topic, the response indicating a reliability of each work-product document using the validity indicator for each non-work-product document and the rating indicator for each work-product document, wherein each work-product document that matches the at least one legal topic is retrieved from a first database, and wherein each non-work-product document that matches the at least one legal topic is retrieved from a second database, and wherein each indicated work-product document includes a depth-of-treatment value indicating a degree to which each indicated work-product document evaluates a specific non-work-product document.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.