Systems, methods and interfaces for aggregating and providing information regarding legal professionals
AssigneeWest Services, Inc.
InventorsKevin L. Ritchey, Charles Vanek
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Abstract
A method for determining legal experience including determining a count of times each attorney of a plurality of attorneys is identified as an author of at least one document of a plurality of documents, each document of the plurality of documents has a date associated therewith; applying a weight to the count based on the date of each document used to determine the count to yield a weighted count, a more recent date corresponds to a greater weight; determining a legal experience indicator for each attorney based on the weighted count; and ranking each attorney of the plurality of attorneys according to the legal experience indicator; providing a list of the plurality of attorneys according to the ranking.
Claims7
A method for determining and displaying legal experience comprising:
- determining a count of times at least one attorney of a plurality of attorneys is identified as an author of at least one document of a plurality of documents, each document of the plurality of documents having a date, at least one business, and at least one practice area associated therewith;
- applying a weight to the count based on the date associated with each document used to determine the count to yield a weighted count, wherein a more recent date corresponds to a greater weight;
- determining an attorney legal experience indicator for each attorney in the at least one practice area based on the weighted count;
- ranking each attorney of the plurality of attorneys according to the attorney legal experience indicator;
- associating each attorney of the plurality of attorneys with one or more textual articles based on a context of the one or more textual articles;
- associating each attorney with the at least one business of a plurality of businesses;
- determining a business legal experience indicator for each business of the plurality of businesses according to the at least one practice area based on the attorney legal experience indicator for each attorney associated with each business;
- ranking each business of the plurality of businesses according to the at least one practice area based on the business legal experience indicator;
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- providing, in response to a query indicating a particular practice area, at least one of the one or more textual articles, at least a portion of a list of each attorney associated with the particular practice area indexed according the ranking of each attorney, and at least a portion of a list of each business associated with the particular practice area indexed according to the ranking of each business.
An apparatus for determining and causing display of legal experience, comprising:
- a computer processor adapted to execute one or more processes;
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- a memory configured to store a process executable by the computer processor, the one or more processes when executed operable to:
- determine a count of times at least one attorney of a plurality of attorneys is identified as an author of at least one document of a plurality of documents, each document of the plurality of documents having a date, at least one business, and at least one practice area associated therewith;
- apply a weight to the count based on the date associated with each document used to determine the count to yield a weighted count, wherein a more recent date corresponds to a greater weight;
- determine an attorney legal experience indicator for each attorney in the at least one practice area based on the weighted count;
- rank each attorney of the plurality of attorneys according to the attorney legal experience indicator;
- associate each attorney of the plurality of attorneys with one or more textual articles based on a context of the one or more textual articles;
- associate each attorney with the at least one business of a plurality of businesses;
- determine a business legal experience indicator for each business of the plurality of businesses according to the at least one practice area based on the attorney legal experience indicator for each attorney associated with each business;
- rank each business of the plurality of businesses according to the at least one practice area based on the business legal experience indicator;
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- provide, in response to a query indicating a particular practice area, at least one of the one or more textual articles, at least a portion of a list of each attorney associated with the particular practice area indexed according the ranking of each attorney, and at least a portion of a list of each business associated with the particular practice area indexed according to the ranking of each business.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.