Patent ID: 7983990

Claim:
A method of managing legal proceedings with a terminal device having outline preparation capabilities, comprising: transcribing text from one or more spoken questions and one or more spoken answers in a recording associated with a legal proceeding with a transcription system operatively connected to a case evidence library; synchronizing the transcribed text with the one or more spoken questions and the one or more spoken answers in the recording associated with the legal proceeding; storing evidence associated with the legal proceeding in the case evidence library, wherein the evidence stored in the case evidence library includes one or more scanned evidentiary documents associated with the legal proceeding; extracting a tailored outline associated with the legal proceeding from an outline library that comprises a plurality of categorization entries, wherein the tailored outline includes a subset of the plurality of categorization entries; displaying, via a terminal device operatively connected to the case evidence library and the outline library via at least one communication link, the one or more scanned evidentiary documents stored in the case evidence library; displaying the subset of the plurality of categorization entries in the tailored outline associated with the legal proceeding on the terminal device; and classifying the one or more scanned evidentiary documents displayed on the terminal device with one or more of the subset of the plurality of categorization entries in the tailored outline displayed on the terminal device, wherein the one or more scanned evidentiary documents are classified with the one or more categorization entries in response to an association instruction on the terminal device.