Lexisnexis

Mark Shewhart

Mahesh Pendyala

Sanjay Sharma

Janardhana R Punuru

A method includes receiving, at a computing device, an electronic document, wherein the electronic document is a legal brief comprising a plurality of paragraphs; identifying one or more argument paragraphs from among the plurality of paragraphs, wherein each of the one or more argument paragraphs includes one or more legal arguments; performing a textual search of a corpus of legal documents based on a selected set of the identified argument paragraphs; performing a semantic search of the corpus of legal documents based on the selected set of the identified argument paragraphs; combining results of the textual search and the semantic search; and presenting the combined results to a user.

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Mark Shewhart