System and method for legal document authoring and electronic court filing

A method of providing electronic communication for a subscriber and a court regarding a legal action, comprising:

• (A) registering a subscriber using a host computer;
• (B) receiving from the subscriber, using the host computer, claim information in electronic form sufficient to institute a legal action in a court;
• (C) generating, using the host computer, a legal document in electronic form configured to institute the legal action using at least the claim information;
• (D) establishing a web portal interface on the host computer that is configured to allow a court computer associated with the court to electronically interact with the host computer;
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• (E) enabling the court computer via the web portal interface to retrieve the generated legal document from the host computer for filing with the court.

A method for receiving and processing a claim file and authoring and electronically filing a legal document for a legal action in a court, comprising:

• (A) electronically receiving at a host computer a claim file in electronic form wherein the claim file includes a first plurality of fields corresponding to party information and a second plurality of fields corresponding to claim information;
• (B) associating, at the host computer using a processor, one or more supporting documents with the claim information portion of the claim file wherein the supporting documents are selected from the group comprising a contract, a credit application, an account statement, an account summary and a legal notice, wherein the supporting documents are those documents needed or desirable to support a legal claim in the legal action.
• (C) selecting a court, using the processor, based at least in part on data included in the claim file and predetermined court selection criteria;
• (D) generating, using the processor, a legal document in electronic form configured for electronic filing in the selected court and which is compliant with requirements of the selected court, using the claim file and predetermined filing requirements data associated with the selected court;
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• (E) electronically filing the generated legal document in the selected court.

A method of providing electronic communication for a subscriber or a court regarding a legal action, comprising:

• (A) configuring a host computer to allow entities to register therewith to define at least one subscriber;
• (B) providing an electronic interface configured to allow a court to interact with the host computer;
• (C) servicing, using the processor, a message from the subscriber directed to the host computer regarding the legal action;
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• (D) charging a service fee to the subscriber for servicing the message.