Computerized legal case management system incorporating reconciliation feature

摘要

A method for docketing and reporting activities related to a legal case by first establishing a database in a computer memory for storing case data comprised of a plurality of docket records associated with the legal case. The database is then populated with one or more docket records. A court sourced alert associated with the legal case is received via a communications network and loaded into the database. A docket report listing and identifying at least one docket record and the court sourced alert is generated and displayed to a subscriber or user. The user may then reconcile the court sourced alert with the docket record and the displayed docket report listing is modified to indicate that the court sourced alert has been reconciled with the docket record.

主权项

1. A method of computer-implemented legal case management comprising:
providing access to a computer network of multiple computers for receipt of information; populating a database in a computer memory of one of the multiple computers with information from several different entities including at least a PACER system and a CM/ECF system, which information is about a plurality of different courts and for a plurality of court cases in each of the PACER and CM/ECF systems, and creating a docket record for each court case; receiving a court sourced alert, the court source alert having an identifying information and event information, wherein the court sourced alert can be received from a source group, wherein the source group is selected from a group consisting of an independent alert service, an alert from the PACER system, and an alert from a CM/ECF system; dissecting the identifying information to yield a determined court case from the plurality of different courts and the plurality of court cases; extracting actual text and an image document from the court sourced alert to add the actual text and the image document to the docket record; initiating a computer-implemented reconciliation process in which the event information associated with court sourced alerts from two or more of the source group consisting of the independent alert service, the Pacer system, and the CM/ECF system, are reconciled with the docket record, wherein reconciliation also includes a separate color code which color indicates the source group of the court source alert; deducting an event from the event information of the docket record associated with the court sourced alert of the determined court case, wherein the deducting includes determining whether court information concerning a type and form of a legal event represented by the event information has changed; and generating and displaying a new docket record that includes the identifying information and the event information associated with the court sourced alert.