COLLABORATIVE MATTER MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS

摘要

A collaborative matter management and analysis tool is presented. Each matter has its own workspace that is built around a collaborative backbone. Users can provide access to the matter workspace to anyone who they want to collaborate with, including others at their organization and persons outside the organization, such as clients, lawyers, experts, vendors and other third parties. Processing of the document is automatic and based on the content and document type. The document, when uploaded, is OCR'd and based on the content, citations are converted to hyperlinks and the cited documents are linked. Documents and events are associated to enable enhanced productivity tools such as searching and e-brief.

主权项

1. A method for collaborative matter management comprising:
providing a user interface for selecting and creating a group comprising a plurality of matter items, wherein said user interface is further configured to provide identification of one of said plurality of matter items as a lead item; obtaining one or more characteristics of said lead item; and attributing said one or more characteristics of said lead item to said group of plurality of matter items.