A System to Support Legal Case Building and Reasoning

Abstract

We have designed a system to support collaborative legal case reasoning and building. The design is based on our understanding of the corporate litigation domain acquired through analysis of the literature, interviews of various parties involved in corporate litigation processes, and studies of the commercial tools already available. In this paper we illustrate the designed system and in particular the interaction modes that it supports that we believe address a number of the requirements that emerged through our analysis. We also describe its main components and their integration, including a knowledge model that represents the domain, and a natural language processing component for extracting semantic information. A description of a prototype system is also provided. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013.