8. The method of claim 1 , wherein said one or more metadata fields comprises: an OCR field for storing said extracted text; an Evidence Tray for storing the citations to evidentiary documents; a Master File Tray for storing the citations to Master File documents; and a Legal Authority Tray for storing the citations to legal authority documents.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein said one or more metadata fields comprises: an OCR field for storing said extracted text; an Evidence Tray for storing the citations to evidentiary documents; a Master File Tray for storing the citations to Master File documents; and a Legal Authority Tray for storing the citations to legal authority documents. 11. The method of claim 8 , wherein said converting said citations in said new document to hyperlinks to other documents comprises: scanning said extracted text for legal authority citations; placing each unique legal authority citation found in said new document as an entry in said Legal Authority Tray; obtaining one legal authority document corresponding to each one of said entries in said Legal Authority Tray; and linking each of said legal authority document to said corresponding legal authority citation in said new document.