Patent Document ID: 10133755
Application ID: 14823461

Base Claim:
1. A method for acquiring and processing legal data, the method comprising: accessing a source of legal information; retrieving legal data from the source of legal information; automatically normalizing inaccuracies in the legal data; after normalizing the legal data, receiving input from an administrator to manually modify the legal data and to input supplemental data that adds a legal outcome for which no metadata element has been previously generated; identifying one or more portions of a data set comprising the legal data and the supplemental data input, each portion including a reference to a legal entity; generating a metadata element for each legal entity referenced in the one or more portions, wherein the metadata element is one of a plurality of metadata elements; associating each of the one or more portions with at least one of the plurality of metadata elements, the at least one metadata element signaling which legal entities are referenced in each portion; and constructing a legal database that includes the data set and the plurality of metadata elements, wherein the legal database is searchable by legal entity.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: generating a graphical user interface; receiving input, via the graphical user interface, from a user to specify search parameters used to identify a segment of the data set; applying legal analytics to the segment of the data set; presenting, via the graphical user interface, analytic results that include a graphical summary; and receiving input from the user to adjust the analytic results by modifying the search parameters.