Information concerning criminal and/or civil litigation pending in a
plurality of courts of law is disseminated by periodically reviewing records in
a plurality of courts of law. The courts of law may be in a plurality of states
and may be federal and/or state courts. Data obtained from the records in each
of the plurality of courts is transmitted to a database. The database is accessed
with terminals which communicate with the database by a network, such as the Internet.
Data relating to the criminal and/or civil lawsuits is transmitted from the database
to the terminals which access the database. The data relating to the lawsuits may
include data indicating the identity of plaintiffs and defendants, data indicating
the identity of the attorney or attorneys filing the lawsuits, data indicating
the cause of action of the lawsuits, and/or data indicative of the disposition
of the lawsuits.
