SYSTEMS, METHODS, SOFTWARE AND INTERFACES FOR INTEGRATION OF CASE LAW WITH LEGAL BRIEFS, LITIGATION DOCUMENTS, AND/OR OTHER LITIGATION-SUPPORT DOCUMENTS

摘要

The invention provides a system, method and server to retrieve litigation documents. The system comprises a caselaw database containing a plurality of judicial decision documents associated with legal disputes; a litigation database containing a plurality of litigation documents, each litigation document filed in a legal dispute associated with at least one judicial decision document; a relationship database relating at least one of the judicial decision documents of the caselaw database to one or more litigation documents of the litigation database; and a server coupled to the caselaw database, litigation database and relationship database, the server configured to: return to a client access device one or more user-interface elements associated with respective one or more of the judicial decision documents in response to a submitted legal-research query; receive from the client access device a selection of at least one judicial decision document via its associated user-interface element; determine from the relationship database at least one litigation document based on the selected at least one judicial decision document; and transmit to the client access device at least one user-interface element associated with the determined at least one litigation document configured to enable a user of the client access device to request the server to retrieve the determined at least one litigation document from the litigation database.