Patent ID: 7251607

Claim:
A method of resolving a dispute, comprising: at least one of a plurality of parties to the dispute providing, via an on-line connection, an input relating to the dispute; information related to resolution of the dispute being provided, via the on-line connection, to at least one of the parties; providing at least a portion of the input in a publicly accessible on-line form and allowing at least some people who access the on-line form to interact therewith in substantially real-time; and determining which people that access the on-line form are permitted to interact therewith based on an assessment of at least one of the person's knowledge of the law and the person's knowledge of the facts, wherein the determining step includes assessing the person's knowledge by providing the person a set of one or more questions and evaluating the person's responses to the questions, wherein the person is provided another set of questions from the larger set of questions if the person does not answer a predetermined number of the questions correctly, and wherein the dispute is resolved based at least in part on input from the person.