Patent ID: 6901404

Claim:
A method of disseminating information relating to litigation pending in a plurality of courts of law, said method comprising the steps of reviewing records in a plurality of courts of law to obtain data relating to lawsuits filed in each of the plurality of courts of law, said step of reviewing records in a plurality of courts of law includes determining the identify of the plaintiff, determining the identity of the defendant, determining the cause of action, and determining the identity of the attorney or attorneys filing the lawsuits, transmitting the data obtained from the records in each court of law of the plurality of courts of law to a database, said step of transmitting data obtained from the records in each court of law of the plurality of courts of law includes transmitting data indicate of the identity of the plaintiff, the identity of the defendant, the cause of action, and the identity of the attorney or attorneys filing the lawsuits, accessing the database with terminals which communicate with the database by a network, and transmitting at least a portion of the data from the database over the network to the terminals which access the database.