Systems, methods, software and interfaces for integration of case law with legal briefs, litigation documents, and/or other litigation-support documents

摘要

A system for the integration of case law with legal briefs, litigation documents, and/or other litigation-support documents comprises a server for an online legal-research provider and means associated with the server for returning search results to a client access device in response to a submitted legal-research query. The server coupled to one or more databases, includes a subscriber database containing authentication credentials for a plurality of subscribers to an online legal research service; a caselaw database containing a plurality of judicial decision documents; and a database containing a plurality of court-filing documents, with each court-filing documents representative of an original litigation document filed in a legal dispute associated with at least one judicial decision. The search results identifies one or more of the judicial decision documents and at least one user-interface element for enabling a user of the access device to access at least one of the court-filing documents related to one or more of the identified judicial decision documents. (62) Divided Out of 548803