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Legal document version control

**Purpose**

1.1. Ensure every legal document revision is automatically tracked, stored, timestamped, and collaboratively accessible to maintain a tamper-proof version history for compliance, audit, and team collaboration across administrative law cases.
1.2. Automate logging of changes, approval paths, and access permissions for each document version.
1.3. Instantly notify stakeholders of document updates, required reviews, or signature actions to ensure workflow continuity and deadline adherence.
1.4. Equip legal teams to retrieve, compare, and restore previous document versions for audit defense and regulatory response.

**Trigger Conditions**

2.1. New document upload or creation in the document management system.
2.2. Edits made to an existing legal document by any authorized user.
2.3. Approvals, comments, or electronic signatures appended.
2.4. Scheduled document review intervals (e.g., regulatory review every 90 days).
2.5. Retrieval or rollback request for prior document version.

**Platform Variants**

3.1. Microsoft SharePoint
  • Feature/Setting: "Version History" API setup for legal document libraries; trigger with file update webhook, auto-log metadata.
3.2. Google Drive
  • Feature/Setting: "Revisions" API to capture file version events; set watch channels for user edits.
3.3. Dropbox
  • Feature/Setting: "Files Upload Session/Commit" endpoint with "revision" property; configure webhooks for any file change in case folder.
3.4. iManage
  • Feature/Setting: "Document Versioning" with REST API to flag, lock, and archive each version; configure event-based triggers.
3.5. NetDocuments
  • Feature/Setting: "ndThreadedVersions" API for auto-versioning; set automated notifications on new version creation.
3.6. DocuSign
  • Feature/Setting: "Envelope Event Notifications" for signature/workflow events; version capture API enabled post signature.
3.7. Adobe Acrobat Sign
  • Feature/Setting: "Agreements API" for version status; configure webhook endpoint for status changes.
3.8. Clio
  • Feature/Setting: "Documents API" with version_id param; activate webhook on document edit/upload.
3.9. Box
  • Feature/Setting: "File Version Upload" API, webhook for BOX event triggers on version changes.
3.10. Egnyte
  • Feature/Setting: "File Version APIs" to listen and archive new or modified document versions.
3.11. M-Files
  • Feature/Setting: "Object Versioning" with event triggers for workflow state changes or file updates.
3.12. Slack
  • Feature/Setting: "File Changed" event API to notify channel when a versioned legal document is updated.
3.13. Jira
  • Feature/Setting: "Document Attachments" API to log/legal attachments; automation for document change comments.
3.14. Notion
  • Feature/Setting: "Page Version History" via API; integration with edit webhook for document-related pages.
3.15. Confluence
  • Feature/Setting: "Content Version" REST API for page/doc; set up notifications on new version publish.
3.16. Zoho WorkDrive
  • Feature/Setting: "Document Revision API"; enable triggers for new index entries.
3.17. Monday.com
  • Feature/Setting: "File Change" webhook; document automation with version change logging in activity feed.
3.18. Asana
  • Feature/Setting: "Task Attachment Change" webhook for document logs with comment on version increments.
3.19. Salesforce
  • Feature/Setting: "ContentVersion" Salesforce Object API; configure workflow triggers on document update.
3.20. OneDrive
  • Feature/Setting: "DriveItem Versioning" API, webhook on file revision events in case folders.
3.21. Lawcus
  • Feature/Setting: "Document API" with version properties; auto-notify on new version save.
3.22. Everlaw
  • Feature/Setting: "Document Upload/Update" API for eDiscovery; trigger meta-logging on versioned evidence.
3.23. Worldox
  • Feature/Setting: "Document Event API" for file updates; configure alert on version overwrite.

**Benefits**

4.1. Compliance assurance via credible document audit trails.
4.2. Elimination of manual check-in/check-out for version control.
4.3. Real-time stakeholder notifications reduce operational delays.
4.4. Streamlined rollback and review enables faster dispute resolution.
4.5. Enhanced collaboration and minimized risk of misfiled or outdated documents.
4.6. Permanence of log entries defends against tampering and supports legal defensibility.

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