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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2011
Kevin L. Ritchey, St. Paul, MN (US);
Charles Vanek, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Kevin L. Ritchey, St. Paul, MN (US);
Charles Vanek, Minneapolis, MN (US);
West Services, Inc., Eagan, MN (US);
Abstract
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.