Joseph M Costello

US Patent:

20060178925, Aug 10, 2006

Filed:

Feb 4, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/051532

Inventors:

Timothy Meece - Burr Ridge IL, US
Mark Banner - Warrenville IL, US
Joseph Costello - Frederick MD, US
Aimee Boss - Chicago IL, US

Assignee:

Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. - Chicago IL

International Classification:

G06F 15/02

US Classification:

705009000

Abstract:

Litigation-docket software may be used by teams of litigation attorneys for entering, maintaining, and viewing information about litigation events. Litigation-docket entries may contain information, such as start and end times and a responsible attorney, about litigation events, such as court hearings, brief-due dates, depositions, and the like. After a litigation-docket entry is created, instances (i.e., copies) of the litigation-docket entry are sent to members of the litigation team. A recipient may accept, reject, or tentatively accept the litigation-docket-entry instance. Recipients may request that the entry creator make changes to information within the litigation-docket entry. Upon the entry creator making such a change, instances of the revised litigation-docket entry will be sent to litigation-team members. A verification utility may be used to verify that litigation-team members have litigation-docket-entry instances that are consistent with one another. A user may customize the user's view of their litigation-docket entries.