1. A method for acquiring and processing legal data, the method comprising: accessing a source of legal information; retrieving legal data from the source of legal information; determining whether inaccuracies exist in the legal data and normalizing the inaccuracies if any are discovered; allowing an administrator to manually modify the legal data, input supplemental data, or both, wherein a data set is derived from the legal data and the supplemental data; identifying one or more portions of the data set, each portion including a reference to a legal entity; generating a metadata element for each legal entity referenced in the one or more portions, wherein the metadata element is one of a plurality of metadata elements; associating each of the one or more portions with at least one of the plurality of metadata elements, the at least one metadata element signaling which legal entities are referenced in each portion; and constructing a legal database that includes the data set and the plurality of metadata elements, wherein the legal database is searchable by legal entity.