Thomson Reuters Global Resources

West Services, Inc.

Charles Vanek

Kevin L Ritchey

The present inventors devised systems, methods, interfaces, and software that can facilitate identification of law firms and/or legal professionals. One exemplary system receives queries from users regarding a legal topic and responds with a listing of attorneys or law firms that are associated with information ranking them based on their experience in handling matters related to the legal topic. The ranking information is based on links between attorneys and public legal documents, such as judicial opinions, court dockets, briefs, litigation documents, journal articles, patents, trademarks, and so forth that mention them by name.

Systems, methods, and interfaces for aggregating and providing information regarding legal professionals

A method for determining legal experience including determining a count of times each attorney of a plurality of attorneys is identified as an author of at least one document of a plurality of documents, each document of the plurality of documents has a date associated therewith; applying a weight to the count based on the date of each document used to determine the count to yield a weighted count, a more recent date corresponds to a greater weight; determining a legal experience indicator for each attorney based on the weighted count; and ranking each attorney of the plurality of attorneys according to the legal experience indicator; providing a list of the plurality of attorneys according to the ranking.

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Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Charles Vanek