14. A computer-implemented method for facilitating a knowledge management system in a distributed computing network have a server in communication with client computers, and memory storing a first database related to work-product documents of a law firm, and a second database related to non-work-product legal precedence, wherein the method comprises the steps of: (a) receiving a query at the server from an agent of a law firm operating one of the client computers, (b) providing, to the agent for display on a graphical user interface, a taxonomy of legal topics for selection by the agent, with selection of one or more of the legal topics indicative of the query being received; (c) searching the first and second databases for content related to the query; (d) retrieving a first set of work-product documents of the law firm from the first database based upon the searching step; (e) storing the first set of work-product documents in a third database in one of the client computers; (f) converting the first set of work product documents into a markup language and subsequently indexing the first set based on legal citations and text to permit the first set of work product documents to be searched, wherein the work-product documents are internal law-firm content; (g) retrieving a second set of non-work-product legal precedence from the second database based upon the searching step; and (h) providing at least a portion of the work-product documents and the non-work-product legal precedence from the first and second sets including citations within the work-product documents and the non-work-product legal precedence, wherein at least one of the citations is associated with an indicator of current reliability of a corresponding document as a legal authority, and each provided work-product document is associated with a depth-of-treatment indicator indicating a degree to which the provided work-product document treats a legal case and one or more of the provided work-product documents are associated with a feedback indicator selected to view one or more user comments on the one or more listed work-product documents.
14. A computer-implemented method for facilitating a knowledge management system in a distributed computing network have a server in communication with client computers, and memory storing a first database related to work-product documents of a law firm, and a second database related to non-work-product legal precedence, wherein the method comprises the steps of: (a) receiving a query at the server from an agent of a law firm operating one of the client computers, (b) providing, to the agent for display on a graphical user interface, a taxonomy of legal topics for selection by the agent, with selection of one or more of the legal topics indicative of the query being received; (c) searching the first and second databases for content related to the query; (d) retrieving a first set of work-product documents of the law firm from the first database based upon the searching step; (e) storing the first set of work-product documents in a third database in one of the client computers; (f) converting the first set of work product documents into a markup language and subsequently indexing the first set based on legal citations and text to permit the first set of work product documents to be searched, wherein the work-product documents are internal law-firm content; (g) retrieving a second set of non-work-product legal precedence from the second database based upon the searching step; and (h) providing at least a portion of the work-product documents and the non-work-product legal precedence from the first and second sets including citations within the work-product documents and the non-work-product legal precedence, wherein at least one of the citations is associated with an indicator of current reliability of a corresponding document as a legal authority, and each provided work-product document is associated with a depth-of-treatment indicator indicating a degree to which the provided work-product document treats a legal case and one or more of the provided work-product documents are associated with a feedback indicator selected to view one or more user comments on the one or more listed work-product documents. 15. The computer-implemented method of claim 14 , wherein the second database is part of an online pay-for-access legal research service, each provided work-product document is associated with an indicator identifying an author of the document, an office location of the author, and an identification of documents within a document management system for the law firm, and the query includes an identification of a legal case.