Version control for law drafting and other dev-like tools is something that http://www.openlawlib.org http://www.openlawlib.org is working on. I think there is

Version control for law drafting and other dev-like tools is something that http://www.openlawlib.org http://www.openlawlib.org is working on. I think there is a strong push for standard provisions, definitions, etc. The problem is that while every relationship is similar, there are always enough edge cases that forms are often only good as starting points. W/r/t to building knowledge bases for law firms, parsing existing contracts so that they are searchable and usable as sources of knowledge is a hard problem.