Patent ID: 7269584
Filing Date: 2007-09-11
Classification: H03H,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for electronically exchanging legal and legal-related information between clients and service providers that protects the confidentiality of a client's information and avoids creating conflicts of interest, comprising: providing a host site computer; providing a client computer in communication with the host site computer; providing a service provider computer in communication with the host site computer; creating a client's request for proposal (RFP) on the client computer and entering information that identifies some of the client's opponents; creating a service provider profile on the service provider computer and entering information that identifies some of the service provider's clients; transmitting the client's RFP and the information identifying the client's opponents to the host site computer; transmitting the service provider profile and the information identifying the service provider's clients to the host site computer; comparing the information identifying the client's opponents to the information identifying the service provider's clients to determine if the service provider should be allowed access to the client's RFP; refusing to provide the service provider with access to the client's RFP if a match indicating that a potential conflict of interest exists is found during the comparison of the information identifying the client's opponents to the information identifying the service provider's clients.