> Version control? Basically meaningless for lawyers. The only version of the contract that matters is the most recent one, so we just need a way to track that.

> Version control? Basically meaningless for lawyers. The only version of the contract that matters is the most recent one, so we just need a way to track that. I think you are talking about versioning executed contracts, in which case I kind of agree with you, though there are some corner cases where it would be helpful to track all the amendments/restatements to a contract over time. But I do think versioning of drafts is important in all but the most basic negotiations because parties expect redlines with each draft and different parties may expect different redlines (because not all parties are necessarily recipients of all drafts, eg, if there are some discrete points being negotiated amongst a sub-set of the parties). But as I have said in another comment, that kind of version control is already available to lawyers. And in general, I agree with you - the actual pain points for lawyers (and their clients) are not the ones that software developers tend to focus on when they talk about disrupting the legal sector. There are a lot of solutions in search of problems.