Patent ID: 8935229
Filing Date: 2015-01-13
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. An information retrieval system comprising: a database of multilingual legal documents, including a plurality of court docket documents and case law documents written in two or more languages, wherein the court docket and case law documents are logically associated with means for identifying the court docket and case law documents by lawyers, law firms, corporate entities, legal-subject classifications, and industry classifications; a data extraction module coupled to the database of multilingual legal documents configured and operative to define relationships amongst the multilingual documents in the database of legal documents, the data extraction module being further configured to provide at least first and second indexes wherein each first and second index defines different relationships amongst the multilingual documents in the database of legal documents prior to a user requested trend report request; and a server configured to communicate with the database and with a client access device, the server further configured to receive a trend report request with respect to at least one of a lawyer and a law firm from the client access device and to generate a trend report by semantically associating a lawyer or law firm with legal-subject classifications and industry classifications based on the request, with the trend report request including means for identifying a time period, at least one of a lawyer, a law firm, and at least one of a legal-subject classification and an industry classification, the server including a search module coupled to the database of legal documents configured and operative to enabling textual searching of the legal documents to identify lawyers and law firms matching a user defined parameter based upon the defined relationships of the multilingual documents in the database of legal documents wherein at least one of the lawyers or law firms are sorted by relevance when more than one lawyer or law firm is identified, the server further configured to define a graphical user interface to present information related to a plurality of social networks to which the identified lawyers belong based upon the defined relationships of the multilingual documents, wherein the plurality of social networks comprise peer litigator network, professional associations network, professional seminar network, law school network, local peer network, legal author network, peer client network and judge network.