Abstract: A method for classifying terms and conditions of legal documents is provided. The method includes the steps of: standardizing terms and conditions of all of the legal documents stored in a database; classifying the all of the legal documents having standardized terms and conditions into different categories according to different areas of practices; extracting universal terms and conditions of each of the categories; extracting universal terms and conditions of all of the legal documents in all categories; and extracting categorical terms and conditions of each of the categories.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system for managing legal documents. The system includes: a document organizing module (10) for classifying and grouping the legal documents into classes, and for further classifying and grouping the legal documents in each of the classes into subclasses; an option extracting module (11) for extracting terms and conditions entries from the legal documents; a classification selection module (12) for selecting a class and a subclass of a new legal document; a subclass option manager (13) for selecting subclass entry options for the new legal document; a class option manager (14) for selecting class entry options for the new legal document; a new entry manager (15) for defining new entries and their attributes correspondingly for the new legal document; and a creating module (16) for creating the new legal document. A related method is also disclosed.