Thomson Reuters Global Resources

Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre Gmbh

West Publishing Company

Trace Liggett

Forrest Rhoads

Thomas Zielund

Kingsley Martin

Gary Berosik

Jochen Lothar Leidner

Dietmar H Dorr

Jochen L Leidner

Legal professionals often conduct online research as part of their efforts to produce documents, such as legal briefs. The present inventor recognized that online research tools and desktop applications, such as word processors, are functionally isolated from each other, forcing users to awkwardly switch between them as they work. Accordingly, the inventor devised, among other things, an exemplary toolbar that resides adjacent an active application window, such as a word processor. In operation, a user selects one or portions of text, such as a name or fact pattern, in the window, and activates the toolbar using a right-click command. Upon activation, a customizable menu is displayed, enabling the user to select from one or more listed workflow tasks and ultimately to cause an online research system to return search results based on the task and text selections.

Systems, methods, and software for integration of online research tasks into law firm workflow

The present inventors devised unique systems, methods, interfaces, and software for managing and leveraging knowledge in law firms and potentially other enterprises. For example, one system provides a single user interface for researching case law for online legal research service and identifying and accessing law-firm documents.

Systems and methods for managing documents for law firms

Exemplary systems for processing a corpus of documents, such as legal contracts or agreements, are disclosed. The systems include a phrase discovery engine which derives statistics and phrase equivalence classes, groups of phrase equivalence classes, and uberphrases (clauses) bounded by phrases. These can be used to determine origins of phrases or clauses within given legal contract or to suggest alternative phrases and clauses.

Systems, methods, and software for questionbased sentiment analysis and summarization

Systems, methods, software and interfaces for integration of online research tasks into law firm workflow

Systems, methods and software for processing phrases and clauses in legal documents

Knowledge-management systems for law firms

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Rosemount, MN, United States of America

Trace Liggett