Patent ID: 6622128
Filing Date: 2003-09-16
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A method for entering and sharing legal billing and budget information, the steps comprising:providing a computer network; gathering actual time and expense data via said computer network; gathering predicted time and expense data via said computer network to effect a budget indicating allocated funds for legal activities and legal expenses; identifying said actual time and expense data and said budget with a specific case of a specific client; storing said actual and predicted time and expense data in a database related to said case; presenting said budget to a user when said user enters actual time and expense data so that said user is notified of compliance with said budget as indicated by said budget less already billed actual time and expense data and said user is notified of potentially remaining budget as indicated by said budget less already billed actual time and expense data plus unbilled actual time and expense data; transmitting said actual time and expense data and said budget to a third party, said third party monitoring said actual time and expense data and said budget; whereby legal billing for time and expenses and review of such legal billing may occur in a contemporaneous and ongoing manner over said computer network, allowing legal costs and fees to be entered, recorded, and monitored more easily by geographically dispersed parties.