Patent ID: 8972845
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for improving document review performance for a legal proceeding or legal matter by a plurality of users or document reviewers on client computers connected to a server, the method comprising steps of: dividing elementary facts into a plurality of table types or main types and sub-types, and setting up at least one table for storing coding rules and elementary facts specifically for the proceeding or matter, each of the coding rules having an effective date, and each of the elementary facts having an effective date; generating a document review user interface for each of the users on the user's client computer so that each user can review documents on the document review user interface; generating a discovery-assisting user interface for searching and retrieving data from the at least one table and for adding data to the at least one table, the discovery-assisting user interface being used by the users who review documents; and reviewing documents in a sequential order by each of the users, coding for each document, and saving coded data for each document on the server, wherein, each of the users, after reviewing a document and before coding for the document, uses the discovery-assisting user interface to search coding rules and elementary facts from the at least one table, retrieves one or more coding rules and elementary facts for guidance, and coding the document and/or adding a coding rule and/or an elementary fact in the at least one table for immediate access.