Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Accounting
Reexamination Certificate
2011-06-07
2011-06-07
Champagne, Luna (Department: 3627)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Accounting
C705S014100, C705S040000, C705S030000, C705S002000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07958023
ABSTRACT:
A computer-implemented method and system is disclosed in which a network-based e-commerce environment includes billing a client at a periodic flat rate for a pre-defined scope of legal advice in pre-defined areas of legal services and offering the client, as part of the periodic flat rate, an alternative billing option of participating in a litigation defense program having a graduated fee structure based on an outcome of a litigation. In other embodiments, a network-based e-commerce environment includes offering the client participation in an accrual of credits at a predetermined multiplier of the periodic flat rate paid whereby such credits are accrued over time and may be redeemed to offset legal fees otherwise payable.
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Champagne Luna
Salter Jim H.
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