1. An online legal research system, the system comprising: a case management system of a law firm configured to maintain an editable document related to a first legal case and identification information for the editable document, the identification information identifying the first legal case and an activity associated with the first legal case to which the editable document relates; a client access device configured to access the editable document from the case management system via a word processor application over a first network and to determine the identification information that identifies the first legal case and the activity to which the editable document relates, the client access device further configured to transmit at least a portion of the identification information including the activity over a second network; and a server coupled to one or more databases storing court documents of second legal cases, the server configured to communicate with the client access device over the second network to receive the portion of the identification information, the server further configured to conduct a search of at least one of the databases based on the received portion and to return to the client access device one or more court documents of at least one second legal case that are relevant to the activity of the first legal case.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the identification information identifies a legal client of a law firm associated with the client access device, the first legal case associated with the legal client, one or more parties of the first legal case, one or more attorneys associated with the first legal case, one or more legal workflow activities associated with the first legal case including the activity; and wherein in response to identification of at least one of the legal workflow activities the client access device is configured to display one or more options to access content of the databases.